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 275: Power to regulate certain activities.
    A Board may, by order, regulate all or any of the following matters, namely:--
         (a) the days on, and the hours during, which any private market or private slaughter-house may be kept open for use;
         (b) the regulation of the design, ventilation and drainage of such market or slaughter-houses, and the material to be used in the construction thereof;
         (c) the keeping of such markets and slaughter-houses and lands and buildings appertaining thereto in a clean and sanitary condition, the removal of filth and refuse therefrom, and the supply therein of pure water and of a sufficient number of latrines and urinals for the use of persons using or frequenting the same;
         (d) the manner in which animals shall be stalled at a slaughter-house;
         (e) the manner in which animals may be slaughtered;
         (f) the disposal or destruction of animals offered for slaughter which are, from disease or any other cause, unfit for human consumption;
         (g) the destruction of carcasses which from disease or any other cause are found after slaughter to be unfit for human consumption; and
         (h) any other matter with respect to the regulation of such markets and slaughter-houses.
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