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.
List of Chapters & Sections
PRELIMINARY
APPLICATION OF ACT
APPROPRIATION OF HOUSES
PROCEDURE IN REFERENCES
APPEALS
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
PRELIMINARY
APPLICATION OF ACT
APPROPRIATION OF HOUSES
- 5Liability of houses to appropriation
- 6Conditions on which houses may be appropriated
- 7Procedure for taking house on lease
- 8[Repealed.]
- 9Sanction to be obtained before a house is occupied as a hospital, etc
- 10Houses not to be appropriated in certain cases
- 11Time to be allowed for giving possession of house
- 12Surrender of house when to be enforced
- 13Option in certain cases for owner on whom notice is issued under section 7 to call upon the Government to purchase
- 14Provision where house is held on long lease by a tenant
- 15Power for owner to refer to civil court on question of rent
- 16Power for owner to refer to civil court on question of repairs
- 17Power to have repairs executed and recover cost
- 18Notice to be given of devolution of interest in house in cantonment
PROCEDURE IN REFERENCES
APPEALS
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
- 30Appeal to Officer Commanding the District
- 31Petition of appeal
- 32Order in appeal final
- 33Suspension of action pending appeal
- 34Service of notice and requisitions
- 34AComputation of periods of limitation
- 35Power for Central Government to make rules
- 36Further provisions respecting rules
- 37Inapplicability of section 556 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, to trials of offences
- 38Protection to persons acting under Act
- 39[Repealed.]