THE CANTONMENTS (HOUSE-ACCOMMODATION) ACT, 1923

ACT NO. 6 OF 1923 · Enacted [5th March, 1923.] · 33 sections

PRELIMINARY

Section 1.Short title, extent and commencement.

Section 2.Definitions.

APPLICATION OF ACT

Section 3.Cantonments or parts of cantonments in which Act to be operative.

Section 4.Saving of written instruments.

APPROPRIATION OF HOUSES

Section 5.Liability of houses to appropriation.

Section 6.Conditions on which houses may be appropriated.

Section 7.Procedure for taking house on lease.

Section 8.[Repealed.].

Section 9.Sanction to be obtained before a house is occupied as a hospital, etc.

Section 10.Houses not to be appropriated in certain cases.

Section 11.Time to be allowed for giving possession of house.

Section 12.Surrender of house when to be enforced.

Section 13.Option in certain cases for owner on whom notice is issued under section 7 to call upon the Government to purchase.

Section 14.Provision where house is held on long lease by a tenant.

Section 15.Power for owner to refer to civil court on question of rent.

Section 16.Power for owner to refer to civil court on question of repairs.

Section 17.Power to have repairs executed and recover cost.

Section 18.Notice to be given of devolution of interest in house in cantonment.

PROCEDURE IN REFERENCES

Section 19.Jurisdiction in references.

Section 20.Procedure and powers of the Court.

Section 21.Restriction of scope of inquiry.

APPEALS

Section 29.Appeal to High Court.

SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS

Section 30.Appeal to Officer Commanding the District.

Section 31.Petition of appeal.

Section 32.Order in appeal final.

Section 33.Suspension of action pending appeal.

Section 34.Service of notice and requisitions.

Section 34A.Computation of periods of limitation.

Section 35.Power for Central Government to make rules.

Section 36.Further provisions respecting rules.

Section 37.Inapplicability of section 556 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, to trials of offences.

Section 38.Protection to persons acting under Act.

Section 39.[Repealed.].