Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
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(Chapter V
(19) the supervision and the regulation of the use of
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(Chapter V.—Supplemental Provisions.—Section 26.)
of public wells, tanks, rivers, streams, springs or other sources from which water is or may be made available for public use, and of the lands in the vicinity thereof;
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(Chapter V
(27) the appointment by owners of buildings and lands in cantonments, who are absent from cantonments, of persons residing within or near cantonments to act as their agents for all or any of the purposes of this Act or any enactment extended or rule made thereunder;
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(Chapter V
(25) the prevention and extinction of fires;
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(Chapter V
(12) the definition and abatement of nuisances for which sufficient provision has not, in the opinion of the Governor General in Council, been made under section 25;
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(Chapter V
(30) the cases, authorities and conditions in, to and on which executive orders passed under this Act or any enactment extended or rule made thereunder may be appealed from; and,
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(Chapter V
(18) the use and management of burial and burning grounds;
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(Chapter V
(8) the authority on which money may be paid from the cantonment fund;
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(Chapter V
(26) the registration of births and deaths;
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(Chapter V
(22) the segregation in, or the removal and exclusion from, a cantonment, or the destruction of animals suffering or supposed to be suffering from any infectious or contagious disease;
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(Chapter V
(21) the prevention of the spread of infectious or contagious disorders within a cantonment, and the appointment and regulation of hospitals or other places within or without a cantonment for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from any disease;
Chapter IV: .
TAXATION AND CANTONMENT FUND. | Section 7: (1) With the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, the Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette,—
CHAPTER IV.
TAXATION AND CANTONMENT FUND.
Taxation.
17. (1) With the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, the Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette,—
(a) impose in any cantonment which is not included in a municipality any tax which, under any enactment in force at the date of the notification, can be imposed in any municipality within the territories administered by such Government, and
(b) abolish or modify any tax so imposed.
(2) When any tax is leviable in a cantonment in pursuance of a notification under sub-section (1), the Local Government, with the like sanction, may, by a like notification, apply or adapt to the cantonment the provisions of any enactment or rules in force at the date of the notification for the assessment and recovery of any tax in any municipality within the territories administered by such Government.
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(Chapter V
(9) the investment of any balance of that fund;
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(Chapter V
(15) the construction and maintenance, to the satisfaction of the cantonment authority, of buildings and of boundary-walls, hedges and other fences;
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(Chapter V
(16) the regulation of the practice of agriculture and irrigation in a cantonment, the keeping of lands therein in proper order, and the felling, lopping and trimming of trees on such lands;
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(Chapter V
(24) the prevention of cruelty to animals and the care of animals while grazing;
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(Chapter V
(14) the prevention of the overcrowding of buildings and places in a cantonment;
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(Chapter V
(13) the requisitions which may be made on persons having the control of sewers, drains, latrines or other things creating, or likely to create, nuisances, and the mode of enforcing such requisitions;
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(Chapter V
(17) the regulation of encamping-grounds, sarais, markets and slaughter-houses, of traffic on roads, and of processions and public assemblies;
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(Chapter V
(31) generally, the carrying out of the purposes of this Act.
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(Chapter V
(11) the accounts to be kept by the cantonment authority, and the manner in which those accounts are to be audited and published;
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(Chapter V
(10) the execution of contracts by, or on behalf of, the cantonment authority;
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(Chapter V
(20) the parts of a cantonment in which persons practising any profession or carrying on any trade, calling or occupation may be required to reside for the purpose of practising the profession or carrying on the trade, calling or occupation, and the conditions, if any, to be observed by such persons;
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(Chapter V
(7) the purposes to which the cantonment fund may be applied;
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(Chapter V
(28) the powers of inspection, entry and search which may be exercised in carrying out any of those purposes, and the cases in which breaches of enactments extended or rules made under this Act are to be cognizable offences;
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(Chapter V
(23) the suppression of mendicancy and of loitering or importuning for the purpose of prostitution, and the removal and exclusion from a cantonment of disorderly persons, of persons who have been convicted of any offence against Chapter XVII of the Indian Penal Code or section 156 of the Army Act, 1881, or have been ordered under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882, to execute a bond for their good behaviour, and of persons whom the commanding officer deems it expedient to exclude from the cantonment with or without assigning any reason for excluding them therefrom;
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(Chapter V
(29) the mode in which summonses, notices, requisitions and other documents are to be served on the persons to whom they are addressed;
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(Chapter V
7. the
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(Chapter V.—Supplemental Provisions.—Section 26.)
Source: India Code