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In forceACT NO. VI OF 1923 · 5th March, 1923

The Cantonments (House Accommodation) Act, 1923

১. ক্যান্টনমেন্টস (গৃহ আবাসন) আইন, ১৯২৩

♣An Act further to amend and to consolidate the law relating to the provision of house-accommodation for military officers in cantonments.

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Contents

  1. PreamblePreamble

Chapter I PRELIMINARY

  1. Section 1Short title, extent and commencement
  2. Section 2Definitions

Chapter II APPLICATION OF ACT

  1. Section 3Cantonments or parts of cantonments in which Act to be operative
  2. Section 4Saving of written instruments

Chapter III APPROPRIATION OF HOUSES

  1. Section 5Liability of houses to appropriation
  2. Section 6Conditions on which houses may be appropriated
  3. Section 7Procedure for taking house on lease
  4. Section 8[Repealed]Repealed
  5. Section 9Sanction to be obtained before a house is occupied as a hospital, etc.
  6. Section 10Houses not to be appropriated in certain cases
  7. Section 11Time to be allowed for giving possession of house
  8. Section 12Surrender of house when to be enforced
  9. Section 13[Omitted]Repealed
  10. Section 14Provision where house is held on long lease by a tenant
  11. Section 15Power for owner to refer to Civil Court on question of rent
  12. Section 16Power for owner to refer to Civil Court on question of repairs
  13. Section 17Power to have repairs executed and recover cost
  14. Section 18Notice to be given of devolution of interest in house in cantonment

Chapter IV PROCEDURE IN REFERENCES

  1. Section 19Jurisdiction in references
  2. Section 20Procedure and powers of the Court
  3. Section 21Restriction of scope of inquiry

Chapter V APPEALS

  1. Section 29Appeal to High Court Division
  2. Section 30Appeal to Officer Commanding the District
  3. Section 31Petition of appeal
  4. Section 32Order in appeal final
  5. Section 33Suspension of action pending appeal

Chapter VI SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS

  1. Section 34Service of notice and requisition
  2. Section 34AComputation of periods of limitation
  3. Section 35Power for Government to make rules
  4. Section 36Further provisions respecting rules
  5. Section 37Inapplicability of section 556 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, to trials of offences
  6. Section 38Protection to persons acting under Act
  7. Section 39[Repealed]Repealed

Schedules

  1. ScheduleTHE SCHEDULE - [Repealed by section 2 and