Section 299
Power to remove brothels and prostitutes.
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 Officer Commanding the Station or the Board
may, on receiving information that any building in the cantonment is used as a brothel or for purposes of
prostitution, by order in writing setting forth the substance of information received, summon the owner,
lessee, tenant or occupier of the building to appear before him or the Board as the case may be either in
person or by an authorised agent, and, if the Officer Commanding the Station or the Board, is then
satisfied as to the truth of the information, may, by order in writing, direct the owner, lessee, tenant or
occupier, as the case may be, to discontinue such use of the building within such period as may be
specified in the order.