Alteration of limit of cantonments
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.