3.(1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare any place or places in which any part of the regular forces or the regular air force of Bangladesh is quartered or which, being in the vicinity of any such place or places, is or are required for the service of such forces to be a cantonment for the purposes of this Act and of all other enactments for the time being in force, and may, by a like notification, declare that any cantonment shall cease to be a cantonment. (2) The Government may, by a like notification, define the limits of any cantonment for the aforesaid purposes. (3) When any place is declared a cantonment for the first time, the Government may, until a Board is constituted in accordance with the provisions of this Act, by order make any provision which appears necessary to it either for the administration of the Cantonment or for the constitution of the Board. (4) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, direct that in any place declared a cantonment under sub-section (1) the provisions of any enactment relating to local self-government other than this Act shall have effect only to such extent or subject to such modifications, or that any authority constituted under any such enactment shall exercise authority only to such extent, as may be specified in the notification.

4.(1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare its intention to include within a cantonment any local area situated in the vicinity thereof or to exclude from a cantonment any local area comprised therein. (2) Any inhabitant of a cantonment or local area in respect of which a notification has been published under sub-section (1) may, within six weeks from the date of the notification, submit in writing to the Government through the Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, an objection to the notification, and the Government shall take such objection into consideration. (3) On the expiry of six weeks from the date of the notification, Government may, after considering the objections, if any, which have been submitted under sub-section (2), by notification in the official Gazette, include the local area in respect of which the notification was published under sub-section (1), or any part thereof, in the cantonment or, as the case may be, exclude such area or any part thereof in the cantonment.

5. When, by a notification under section 4, any local area is included in a cantonment, such area shall thereupon become subject to this Act and to all other enactments for the time being in force throughout the cantonment and to all notifications, rules, regulations, bye-laws, orders and directions issued or made thereunder.

6.(1) When, by a notification under section 3, any cantonment ceases to be a cantonment and the local area comprised therein is immediately placed under the control of a local authority, the balance of the cantonment fund and other property vesting in the Board shall vest in such local authority, and the liabilities of the Board shall be transferred to such local authority. (2) When, in like manner, any cantonment ceases to be a cantonment and the local area comprised therein is not immediately placed under the control of a local authority, the balance of the cantonment fund and other property vesting in the Board shall vest in Government, and the liabilities of the Board shall be transferred to the Government.

7.(1) When, by a notification under section 4, any local area forming part of a cantonment ceases to be under the control of a particular Board and is immediately placed under the control of some other local authority, such portion of the cantonment fund and other property vesting in the Board and such portion of the liabilities of the Board, as the Government may, by general or special order, direct, shall be transferred to that other local authority. (2) When, in like manner, any local area forming part of a cantonment cases to be under the control of a particular Board and is not immediately placed under the control of some other local authority, such portion of the cantonment fund and other property vesting in the Board shall vest in Government, and such portion of the liabilities of the Board shall be transferred to the Government, as the Government may, by general or special order, direct.

8. Any cantonment fund or portion of a cantonment fund or other property of a Board vesting in Government under the provisions of section 6 or section 7 shall be applied in the first place to satisfy any liabilities of the Board transferred under such provisions to the Government and in the second place for the benefit of the inhabitants of the local area which has ceased to be a cantonment or, as the case may be, part of a cantonment.

9. The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, exclude from the operation of any part of this Act the whole or any part of a cantonment, or direct that any provision of this Act shall, in the case of any cantonment in which the Board is superseded under section 54, apply with such modifications as may be so specified.