Section 298
Enclosure of wasteland used for improper purposes.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the administration of cantonments with a view to impart greater democratisation, improvement of their financial base to make provisions for developmental activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Chief Executive Officer may, by
notice in writing, require the owner or part-owner, or person claiming to be the owner or part-owner, of
any building or land in the cantonment, or the lessee or the person claiming to be the lessee of any such
land, which, by reason of disuse or disputed ownership or other cause, has remained unoccupied and has
become the resort of idle and disorderly persons or of persons who have no ostensible means of
subsistence or cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves, or is used for gaming or immoral
purposes, or otherwise occasions or is likely to occasion a nuisance, to secure and enclose the same within
such time as may be specified in the notice.