Section 8

Chapter IV: . TAXATION AND CANTONMENT FUND. | Section 8: (1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend the provisions of Act 18. (1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend the provisions of Act XX of 1856 (to make better provision for the appointment and maintenance of Police Chaukidárrs in Cities, Towns, Stations, Suburbs and Bázárs in the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal) to any cantonment which is not included in a municipality and which is situated in any part of British India in which that Act is in force, and the Cantonment Magistrate may exercise all the powers of the Magistrate under that Act, subject only to the control of the District Magistrate and the Local Government. (2) The Local Government may order that a cantonment to which the provisions of Act XX of 1856 have been extended shall be divided into any number of cantonment divisions, and may determine the nature of the tax to be levied in each such division according to section 10 of that Act. (3) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, cancel any notification under sub-section (1), and may revoke or vary any order under sub-section (2). Chapter II: . CANTONMENTS AND CANTONMENT AUTHORITIES, COURTS AND POLICE. | Section 8: (1) When the Local Government appoints the Cantonment Magistrate to be the Judge of a Court of Small 8. (1) When the Local Government appoints the Cantonment Magistrate to be the Judge of a Court of Small Causes established within a cantonment under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, 1887, it shall, in its order appointing him to be such Judge, declare, and may by notification in the official Gazette vary, within a limit of five hundred rupees, the value of the suits which are to be cognizable by him under that Act. (2) The 1889.] Cantonments. 183 (Chapter II.—Cantonments and Cantonment Authorities, Courts and Police.—Sections 9-11.) (2) The provisions of section 15, sub-section (3), of the said Act shall not apply to a Court of Small Causes of which a Cantonment Magistrate is the Judge.