The Cantonments Act, 2006 section 1: Subs. vide Notification No. S.R.O. 11(E) fo…

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1. Subs. vide Notification No. S.R.O. 11(E) for entry in column 4, Dated 9-12-2011. 1. Subs. by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and Schedule for SCHEDULE IV (w.e.f. 2-11-2023). SCHEDULE V APPEALS FROM EXECUTIVE ORDERS ( See section 340) |Sl. No.|Section|Executive Order|Appellate Authority|Time allowed for appeal|Time allowed for appeal| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |1|2|3|4||5| |1.|2 (zc)|Declaring 'inhabitant'|District Magistrate|Fifteen days.|| |2.|137|Notice to fill up well, tank,|Principal Director|Thirty days|from service of| |||etc., or to drain off or||notice.|| |||remove water.|||| |3.|138|Notice requiring the owner|Board|Fifteen days|from service of| |||to provide latrine, urinal,||notice.|| |||cesspool dust-bin or other|||| |||receptacle.|||| |4.|139|Notice requiring provision of sanitary facilities in market, school, theatre or other place|Board|Fifteen days notice.|from service of| |||of public resort.|||| |5.|142|Notice for removal of congested building.|General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command|Thirty days notice.|from service of| |6.|144|Notice requiring a building|Principal Director|Thirty days|from service of| |||to be repaired or altered so||notice.|| |||as to remove sanitary|||| |||defects.|||| |7.|147|Notice prohibiting owner or|Principal Director|Twenty-one from days service|| |||occupier to use a building or||of notice.|| |||part of a building for human|||| |||habitation.|||| |8.|183|Order directing a person to|General Officer|Thirty days|from service of| |||remove from the|Commanding-in-Chief,|notice.|| |||Cantonment and prohibiting|the Command||| |||him from|||| |||re-entering it without|||| |||permission.|||| |9.|190|Notice requiring maintenance or closing of private source|Board|Fifteen days notice.|from service of| |||of public drinking water|||| |||supply.|||| |10.|192|Notice requiring the owner,|Board|Fifteen days|from service of| |||lessee or occupier of a||notice.|| |||building or land to obtain|||| |||water from a source of|||| |||public watersupply.|||| 1. Certain words omitted by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and Schedule (w.e.f. 2-11-2023). (a) either by the President of the Board or by the Chief Executive Officer; or (b) by the members of any committee especially authorised by the Board in this behalf. (2) Whenever under this Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder the doing of, or the omission to do, anything or the validity of anything depends upon the approval, sanction, consent, concurrence, declaration, opinion or satisfaction of the Board, a written document signed by any officer or member specified in sub-section (1) purporting to convey or set-forth such approval, sanction, consent, concurrence, declaration, opinion or satisfaction shall be sufficient evidence thereof. (3) Every license, written permission, notice, bill summons or other document which is required by this Act or any rule or bye-law made thereunder to bear the signature of the President, Vice-President or the Chief Executive Officer, or of any such member of any committee as has been specially authorised by the Board in this behalf shall be deemed to be properly signed if it bears facsimile of the signature of any such officer or member, as the case may be, stamped thereon. |1|2||3||||4|5| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |11.|195|Notice for|cutting|off the|||Board|Fifteen days from service of| |||connection|between|| any|||notice.| |||source of|public||water|||| |||supply and|any building|||or||| |||land to which water||||is||| |||supplied.||||||| |12.|238|(a) Refusal to sanction the erection or re-erection of a building in a civil area.|||||1[(a) Principal Director (b) Director (c) Joint Director, Defence Estates, the Command]|Thirty days from service of communication.| |||(b) Refusal|to sanction||||2[(a) General Officer|Thirty days from service of| |||the erection||or||| Commanding-in-Chief, the|communication.| |||re-erection of a building in a Cantonment (Other|||||Command; (b) Military Officer holding|| |||than a civil|area).||||the appointment of Major|| ||||||||General Operational|| ||||||||Logistics, Headquarters|| ||||||||Command as additional|| ||||||||Appellate Authority to hear|| ||||||||the pending appeals as on|| ||||||||date of promulgation of the|| ||||||||Act. If Major General|| ||||||||Operational Logistics is not|| ||||||||authorised in Headquarter|| ||||||||Command, in that|| ||||||||condition Major General-|| ||||||||Incharge-Administration|| ||||||||act as additional Appellate|| ||||||||Authority to hear the|| ||||||||pending appeals as on date|| ||||||||of promulgation of the|| ||||||||Act.]|| |13.|239|Order of|stoppage|||of|Board|Thirty days from service of| |||building or works in||certain||||communication.| |||cases.||||||| |14.|248|(a) Notice to stop erection re-erection of, or to alter demolish, a building in civil area.||||or or a|1[(a) Principal Director (b) Director (c) Joint Director, Defence Estates, the Command]|Thirty days from service of communication.| |||(b) Notice to stop erection||||or|2[(a) General Officer|Thirty days from service of| |||re-erection of, or to||alter||or|Commanding-in-Chief, the|communication.| (2) Whoever does not take reasonable means to prevent any child under the age of twelve years being in his charge from easing himself in any street or other public place within the cantonment shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred-fifty rupees. (3) The owner or keeper of any animal found picketed or staying without a keeper in a street or other public place in a cantonment shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees. (4) Any animal found picketed or straying as aforesaid may be removed by any officer or employee of the Board to a pound. 1* * * * * Dogs (zg) "military officer" means a person who, being an officer within the meaning of the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), the Navy Act, 1957 (62 of 1957) or the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), is commissioned, gazetted or in pay as an officer doing army, naval or air force duty with the army, navy or air force, or is an officer doing such duty in any arm, branch or part of any of those forces; (zh) "nuisance" includes any act, omission, place, animal or thing which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or disturbance to rest or sleep, or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property; (zi) "occupier" includes an owner in occupation of, or otherwise using his own land or building; (zj) "Officer Commanding the station or Station Commander" means the military officer for the time being in command of the forces in a cantonment and if such officer is likely to be absent for more than thirty days, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command may nominate, by an order, another military officer as "Officer Commanding the station or Station Commander"; (zk) "ordinary election" means an election held to fill a vacancy in the office of an elected member of a Board arising by efflux of time; (zl) "owner" includes any person who is receiving or is entitled to receive the rent of any building or land whether on his own account or on behalf of himself and others or an agent or trustee, or who would so receive the rent or be entitled to receive it if the building or land were let to a tenant; (zm) "party wall" means a wall forming part of a building and used or constructed to be used for the support or separation of adjoining buildings belonging to different owners, or constructed or adapted to be occupied by different persons; (zn) "Principal Director" means the Officer appointed by the Central Government to perform the duties of the Principal Director, Defence Estates, the Command for the purpose of this Act and the rules made thereunder; (zo) "private market" means a market which is not maintained by a Board and which is licensed by a Board under the provisions of this Act; (zp) "private slaughter-house" means a slaughter-house which is not maintained by a Board and which is licensed by a Board under the provisions of this Act; (zq) "public market" means a market maintained by a Board; (zr) "public place" means any place which is open to the use and enjoyment of the public, whether it is actually used or enjoyed by the public or not; (zs) "public slaughter-house" means a slaughter-house maintained by a Board; (zt) "resident", in relation to a cantonment, means a person who maintains therein a house or a portion of a house which is at all times available for occupation by himself or his family even though he may himself reside elsewhere, provided that he has not abandoned all intention of again occupying such house either by himself or his family; (zu) "regulation" means a regulation made by a Cantonment Board under this Act by notification in the Official Gazette; (zv) "rule" means a rule made by the Central Government under this Act by notification in the Official Gazette; (zw) "shed" means a slight or temporary structure for shade or shelter; (zx) "slaughter-house" means any place ordinarily used for the slaughter of animals for the purpose of selling the flesh thereof for human consumption; (zy) "soldier" means any person who is a soldier or sailor or an airman subject to the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), the Navy Act, 1957 (62 of 1957) or the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), as the case may be, and who is not a military officer; (zz) "spirituous liquor" means any fermented liquor, any wine, or any alcoholic liquid obtained by distillation or the sap of any kind of palm tree, and includes any other liquid containing alcohol which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a spirituous liquor for the purposes of this Act; (zza) "street" includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley or passage in a cantonment, whether a thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right of way and also the road-way or foot-way over any bridge or cause way; (zzb) "sub-area" means one of the sub-areas into which India is for military purposes for the time being divided and includes, for all or any of the purposes of this Act, any territory which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a sub-area for such purposes; (zzc) "trade or commercial premises" means any premises used or intended to be used for carrying on any trade, commerce or industry; (zzd) "vehicle" means a wheeled conveyance of any description which is capable of being used on a street, and includes a motor-car, motor lorry, motor omnibus, cart, locomotive, tram-car, handcart, truck, motor-cycle, bicycle, tricycle and rickshaw; (zze) "water-works" includes all lakes, tanks, streams, cisterns, springs, pumps, wells, reservoirs, aqueducts, water-trucks, sluices mains, pipes, culverts, hydrants, stand-pipes, and conduits and all machinery, lands, buildings, bridges and things used for, or intended for the purpose of supplying water to a cantonment; and (zzf) "year" means the year commencing on the first day of April.

Source: India Code