Section 336
Recovery of amount payable in respect of damage to cantonment property.
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.
Where any
person has incurred a penalty by reason of having caused any damage to the property of a Board, he shall
be liable to make good such damage, and the amount payable in respect of the damage shall, in case of
dispute, be determined by the Judicial Magistrate by whom the person incurring such penalty is
convicted, and, on non-payment of such amount on demand, the same shall be recovered either by the
distress and sale of the movable property of such person, or by the attachment and sale of the immovable
property of that person, or by both these methods and the Judicial Magistrate shall recover the amount in
accordance with the provisions of sections 421 and 422 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
1973 (2 of 1974) as if it were a fine recoverable under a sentence passed by him.