The Cantonments Act, 2006

Act No. 41

13-Sep-2006

Section 1 — Short t itle, extent and commencement

1. Short t itle, extent and commencement .

(1)This Act may be called the Cantonments Act, 2006.

(2)It extends to the whole of India.

(3)It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.

Section 2 — Definitions

2. Definitions. -In this Act, unless there is anything repug nant in the subject or context, -

(a)“Assistant Health Office r” means the medical officer appointed by the General Officer Commanding -in-Chief, the Command, to be the Assistant Health Officer for a cantonment;

(b)“Board ” means a Cantonment Board constituted under this Act;

(c)“boundary wall ” means a wall which abu ts on a street and which does not exceed two and a half metres in height;

(d)“building ” means a house, outhouse, stable, la trine, shed, hut or other roofed structure whether of masonry, brick, wood, mud, metal or other material, and any part thereof, and includes a well and a wall other than a boundary wall but does not include a tent or other portable and temporary shelter;

(e)“casual election ” means an election held to fill a casual vacancy;

(f)“casual vacancy ” means a vacancy occurring otherwise than by efflux of time in the office of an elected member of a Board and includes a vacancy in such office, arising under sub -section ( 2) of

Section 1 — 6

section 1 6;

(g)“Chief Executive Officer ” means the person appointed under this Act to be the Chief Executive Officer o f a cantonment;

(h)“civil area ” means an area declared to be a civil area by the Central Government under sub-section ( 1) of section 46;

(i)“civil area committee ” means a committee appointed under section 47;

(j)“Command ” means one of the Commands into which India is for military purposes for the time being divided, and includes any area which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a Command for all or any of the purposes of this Act;