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The Cantonments (House Accommodation) Act `1923

An Act further to amend and to consolidate the law relating to the provision of house accommodation for military officers in cantonments.
1923
List of Chapters & Sections

  1. PRELIMINARY

  2. 1
     Short title, extent and commencement
  3. 2
     Definitions

  • APPLICATION OF ACT

  • 3
     Cantonments or parts of cantonments in which Act to be operative
  • 4
     Saving of written instruments

  • APPROPRIATION OF HOUSES

  • 5
     Liability of houses to appropriation
  • 6
     Conditions on which houses may be appropriated
  • 7
     Procedure for taking house on lease
  • 8
     [Repealed.]
  • 9
     Sanction to be obtained before a house is occupied as a hospital, etc
  • 10
     Houses not to be appropriated in certain cases
  • 11
     Time to be allowed for giving possession of house
  • 12
     Surrender of house when to be enforced
  • 13
     Option in certain cases for owner on whom notice is issued under section 7 to call upon the Government to purchase
  • 14
     Provision where house is held on long lease by a tenant
  • 15
     Power for owner to refer to civil court on question of rent
  • 16
     Power for owner to refer to civil court on question of repairs
  • 17
     Power to have repairs executed and recover cost
  • 18
     Notice to be given of devolution of interest in house in cantonment

  • PROCEDURE IN REFERENCES

  • 19
     Jurisdiction in references
  • 20
     Procedure and powers of the Court
  • 21
     Restriction of scope of inquiry

  • APPEALS

  • 29
     Appeal to High Court

  • SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS

  • 30
     Appeal to Officer Commanding the District
  • 31
     Petition of appeal
  • 32
     Order in appeal final
  • 33
     Suspension of action pending appeal
  • 34
     Service of notice and requisitions
  • 34A
     Computation of periods of limitation
  • 35
     Power for Central Government to make rules
  • 36
     Further provisions respecting rules
  • 37
     Inapplicability of section 556 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, to trials of offences
  • 38
     Protection to persons acting under Act
  • 39
     [Repealed.]