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The Cantonments (House Accommodation) Act

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     [Repealed.]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     [Repealed.]