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1The Cantonments Act, 1924

( ACT NO. II OF 1924 )

এই আইন ক্যান্টনমেন্ট আইন, ২০১৮ (২০১৮ সনের ২৭ নং আইন) দ্বারা রহিত করা হইয়াছে।

অধ্যায় এর নাম IX

PUBLIC SAFETY AND SUPPRESSION OF NUISANCES

General Nuisances

Penalty for causing nuisances
118.(1) Whoever-
 
 
(a) in any street or other public place within a cantonment,-
 
 
(i) is drunk and disorderly or drunk and incapable of taking care of himself; or
 
 
(ii) uses any threatening, abusive or insulting words, or behaves in a threating or insulting manner with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned; or
 
 
(iii) eases himself, or wilfully or indecently exposes his person; or
 
 
(iv) loiters, or begs importunately, for alms, or
 
 
(v) exposes or exhibits, with the object of exciting charity, any deformity or disease or any offensive sore or wound; or
 
 
(vi) carries meat exposed to public view; or
 
 
(vii) is found gaming; or
 
 
(viii) pickets animals, or collects carts; or
 
 
(ix) being engaged in the removal of night-soil or other offensive matter or rubbish, wilfully or negligently permits any portion thereof to spill or fall, or neglects to sweep away or otherwise effectually to remove any potion thereof which may spill or fall in such street or place; or
 
 
(x) without proper authority affixes upon any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing, any bill, notice or other document; or
 
 
(xi) without proper authority defaces or writes upon or otherwise marks any building, monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing; or
 
 
(xii) without proper authority removes, destroys, defaces or otherwise obliterates any notice or other document put up or exhibited under this Act; or
 
 
(xiii) without proper authority displaces, damages, or makes any alteration in, or otherwise interferes with, the pavement, gutter, storm-water-drain, flags or other materials of any such street, or any lamp, bracket, direction-post, hydrant or water-pipe maintained by the Board in any such street or public place, or extinguishes a public light; or
 
 
(xiv) carries any corpse not decently covered or without taking due precautions to prevent risk of infection or injury to the public health or annoyance to passers-by or to persons dwelling in the neighbourhood; or
 
 
(xv) carries night-soil or other offensive matter or rubbish at any hour prohibited by the Board by public notice, or in any pattern of cart or receptacle which has not been approved for the purpose by the Board, or fails to close such cart or receptacle when in use; or
 
 
(b) carries night-soil or other offensive matter or rubbish along any route in contravention of any prohibition made in this behalf by the Board by public notice; or
 
 
(c) deposits, or causes or permits to be deposited, earth or materials of any description, or any offensive matter or rubbish, in any place not intended for the purpose in any street or other public place or waste or unoccupied land under the management of the Board; or
 
 
(d) having charge of a corpse fails to bury, burn or otherwise lawfully dispose of the same within twenty-four hours after death; or
 
 
(e) makes any grave or buries or burns any corpse in any place not set apart for such purpose; or
 
 
(f) keeps or uses, or knowingly permits to be kept or used, any place as a common gaming house, or assists in conducting the business of any common gaming house; or
 
 
(g) at any time or place at which the same has been prohibited by the Board by public or special notice, beats a drum or tom-tom, or blows a horn or trumpet, or beats any utensil, or sounds any brass or other instrument, or plays any music; or
 
 
(h) disturbs the public peace or other by singing, screaming or shouting; or
 
 
(i) lets loose any animal so as to cause, or negligently allows any animal to cause, injury, danger, alarm or annoyance to any person; or
 
 
(j) being the occupier of any building or land in or upon which an animal dies, neglects within three hours of the death of the animal, or, if the death occurs at night, within three hours after sunrise, either-
 
 
(i) to report the occurrence to the Executive Officer or to an officer, if any, appointed by him in this behalf with a view to securing the removal and disposal of the carcase by the public conservancy establishment; or
 
 
(ii) to remove and dispose of the carcase in accordance with any general directions given by the Board by public notice or any special directions given by the Executive Officer on receipt of such report as aforesaid; or
 
 
(k) save with the written permission of the Board and in such manner as it may authorise, stores or uses night-soil, manure, rubbish or any other substance emitting an offensive smell; or
 
 
(l) uses or permits to be used as a latrine any place not intended for that purpose;
 
 
shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty Taka.
 
 
(2) Whoever does not take reasonable means to prevent any child under the age of twelve years being in his charge from easing himself in any street or other public place within the cantonment shall be punishable with fine which may extend to twenty-five Taka.
 
 
(3) The owner or keeper of any animal found picketed or straying without a keeper in a street or other public place in a cantonment shall be punishable with fine which may extend to twenty Taka.
 
 
(4) Any animal found picketed as aforesaid may be removed by any officer or servant of the Board or by any police officer to a pound as if the animal had been found straying.

Dogs

Registration and control of dogs
119.(1) A Board may make bye-laws to provide for the registration of all dogs kept within the cantonment.
 
 
(2) Such bye-laws shall-
 
 
(a) require the registration, by the Officer Commanding each military unit, of all dogs kept in the lines occupied by that unit;
 
 
(b) require that every registered dog shall wear a collar to which shall be attached a metal token to be issued by the registration authority, and fix the fee issued payable for the issue thereof;
 
 
(c) require that any dog which has not been registered or which is not wearing such token shall, if found in any public place, be detained at a place set apart for the purpose; and
 
 
(d) fix the fee which shall be charged for such detention and provide that any such dog shall be liable to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of unless it is claimed and the fee in respect thereof is paid within one week;
 
 
and may provide for such other matters as the Board thinks fit.
 
 
(3) A Board may-
 
 
(a) cause to be destroyed, or to be confined for such period as it may direct, any dog or other animal which is, or is reasonably suspected to be, suffering from rabies, or which has been bitten by any dog or other animal suffering or suspected to be suffering from rabies;
 
 
(b) by public notice direct that, after such date as may be specified in the notice, dogs which are without collars or without marks distinguishing them as private property and are found straying on the streets or beyond the enclosures of the houses of their owners, if any, may be destroyed, and cause them to be destroyed accordingly.
 
 
(4) No damages shall be payable in respect of any dog or other animal destroyed or otherwise disposed of under this section.
 
 
(5) Whoever, being the owner or person in charge of any dog, neglects to restrain it so that it shall not be at large in any street without being muzzled and without being secured by a chain lead in any case in which-
 
 
(a) he knows that the dog is likely to annoy or intimidate any person, or
 
 
(b) the Board has, by public notice during the prevalence of rabies, directed that dogs shall not be at large without muzzles and chain leads,
 
 
shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred Taka.
 
 
(6) Whoever in a cantonment-
 
 
(a) allows any ferocious dog which belongs to him or is in his charge to be at large without being muzzled, or
 
 
(b) sets on or urges any dog or other animal to attack, worry or intimidate any person, or
 
 
(c) knowing or having reason to believe that any dog or animal belonging to him or in his charge has been bitten by an animal suffering or reasonably suspected to be suffering from rabies, neglects to give immediate information of the fact to the Executive Officer or gives information which is false,
 
 
shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred Taka.

Traffic

Rule of the road
120. Whoever in driving, leading or propelling a vehicle along a street fails, except in a case of actual necessity,-
 
 
(a) to keep to the left when passing a vehicle coming from the opposite direction, or
 
 
(b) to keep to the right when passing a vehicle going in the same direction as himself,
 
 
shall be punishable with fine which may extend to fifty Taka.

Prevention of Fire, etc.

Use of inflammable materials for building purposes
121.(1) A Board may, by public notice, direct that within such limits in the cantonment as may be specified in the notice, the roofs and external walls of huts or other buildings shall not, without the permission in writing of the Board, be made or renewed of grass, mats, leaves or other inflammable materials, and may, by notice in writing, require any person who has disobeyed any such direction as aforesaid to remove or alter the roofs or walls so made or renewed.
 
 
(2) A Board may, by notice in writing, require the owner of any building in the cantonment which has an external roof or wall made of any such material as aforesaid to remove such roof or wall within such time as may be specified in the notice, notwithstanding that a public notice under sub-section (1) has not been issued or that such roof or wall was made with the consent of the Board or before the issue of such public notice:
 
 
Provided that, in the case of any such roof or wall in existence before the issue of such a public notice or made with the consent of the Board, 2[the Board] shall make compensation, not exceeding the original cost of constructing the roof or wall, for any damage caused by the removal.
Stacking of collecting inflammable materials.
122. A Board may, by public notice, prohibit in any case where such prohibition appears to it to be necessary for the prevention of danger to life or property, the stacking or collecting of wood, dry grass, straw or other inflammable materials, or the placing of mats or thatched huts or the lighting of fires in any place in the cantonment, or within any limits therein, which may be specified in the notice.
Care of naked lights
123. No person shall set a naked light on or near any building in any street or other public place in a cantonment in such manner as to cause danger of fire:
 
 
Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the use, subject to the permission in writing of the Board, of lights for purposes of illumination on the occasion of a festival or public or private entertainment.
Regulation of cinematographic and dramatic perfor-mances
124.(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Cinematograph Act, 1918, no exhibition of pictures or other optical effects by means of a cinematograph or other like apparatus for the purpose of which inflammable films are used, and no public dramatic performance or pantomime, shall be given in any cantonment elsewhere than in premises for which a licence has been granted by the Board under this section.
 
 
(2) If the owner of a cinematograph or other apparatus uses the apparatus or allows it to be used, or if any person takes any part in any public dramatic performance or pantomime, in contravention of the provisions of this section, or if the occupier of any premises allows them to be used in contravention of the provisions of this section or of any condition of any licence granted under this section, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred Taka and, in the case of a continuing offence, with an additional fine which may extend to fifty Taka for each day after the first during which the offence continues.
 
 
(3) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the giving of any exhibition or any dramatic performance or pantomime in any theatre or institute which is the property of the Government where the exhibition, performance or pantomime is held with the permission and under the control of the military authorities.
Discharging fire-works, fire-arms, etc.
125. Whoever in a cantonment discharge any fire-arm or lets off fire-works or fire-balloons, or engages in any game in such manner as to cause or to be likely to cause danger to persons passing by or dwelling or working in the neighbourhood or risk of injury to property shall be liable to fine which may extend to fifty Taka.
Power to require buildings, wells, etc., to be rendered safe
126. Where in a cantonment any building, or wall, or anything affixed thereto, or any well, tank, reservior, pool, depression, or excavation, or any bank or tree, is, in the opinion of the Board in a ruinous state or, for want of sufficient repairs, protection or enclosure a nuisance or, dangerous to persons passing by or dwelling or working in the neighbourhood, the Board by notice in writing may, require the owner or part-owner or person claiming to be the owner or part-owner thereof, or, failing any of them, the occupier thereof to remove the same, or may require him to repair, or to protect or to enclose the same in such manner as it thinks necessary; and, if the danger is, in the opinion of the Board, imminent, it shall forthwith take such steps as it thinks necessary to avert the same.
Enclosure of waste land used for improper purposes
127. A Board 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.
 
 

  • 1
    Throughout this Act, except otherwise provided, the words "Bangladesh", Government", "Penal Code" and "Taka" were substituted, for the words "Pakistan", "Central Government", "Pakistan Penal Code" and "rupee" or "rupees" respectively by the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973), section 3 and 2nd Schedule
  • 2
    The words "the Board" were substituted, for the words "that Authority" by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)
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