Cantonments Act : Enclosure of wasteland used for improper purposes. Indian Bare Acts :

Cantonments Act,2006

Act No : 41

Section : Enclosure of wasteland used for improper purposes.

298. Enclosure of wasteland used for improper purposes. - 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.