Act Number: 41

Act Name: The Cantonments Act, 2006

Year: 2006

Enactment Date: 2006-09-13

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Defence

Department: Department of Defence

Section 130: Responsibility for sanitation.
    The following officers shall, for the purposes of sanitation, have control over, and be responsible for maintaining in a sanitary condition, those parts of a cantonment, respectively, which are specified in the case of each, that is to say:--
         (a) the Officer Commanding the army in the cantonment--all buildings and lands which are occupied or used for army purposes;
         (b) the Officer Commanding the navy in the cantonment--all buildings and lands which are occupied or used for naval purposes;
         (c) the Officer Commanding the air force in the cantonment--all buildings and lands which are occupied or used for air force purposes;
         (d) the Officer Commanding the station in the cantonment--all buildings and lands, occupied or used for any defence purpose, other than those referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c);
         (e) the head of any civil department or railway administration occupying as such any part of the cantonment--all buildings and lands in his charge as head of that department or administration;
         (f) the head of any establishment or installation of the Defence Research and Development Organisation in the cantonment--buildings and lands which are occupied or used for the purposes of the Defence Research and Development Organisation in the cantonment;
         (g) the head of a Public Sector Undertaking--the buildings and lands belonging to such undertaking in the cantonment;
         (h) the Chief Executive Officer--the buildings and lands in the civil area of the cantonment and all other buildings and lands not covered in clauses (a) to (g) above.
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