law: The Cantonments (Extension of Rent Control Laws) Act, 1957
  3. Power to extend to cantonments laws
  
  relating to control of rents and regulation of house accommodation:-
  The Central Government may, by notification in
  
  the Official Gazette, extend to any cantonment with such restrictions and
  
  modifications as it thinks fit, any enactment relating to the control of rent
  
  and regulation of house accommodation which is in force on the date of the
  
  notification in the State in which the cantonment is situated:
  
  Provided that nothing contained in any enactment so extended shall apply
  
  to-
  (a) any premises within the cantonment belonging to the Government;
  (b) any tenancy or other like relationship
  
  created by a grant from the Government in respect of premises within the
  
  cantonment taken on lease or requisitioned by the Government; or
  (c) any house within the cantonment which is,
  
  or may be, appropriated by the Central Government on lease under the
  
  Cantonments (House Accommodation) Act, 1923(6 of 1923).
  Comment: We, therefore, hold that the decree
  
  obtained by the respondents is saved by the provisions of Section 3,
  
  sub-section (4) of the Cantonment (Extension of Rent Control Laws) Act of 1957,
  
  as amended by Act 22 of 1972. Jai Singh Jairam  Tyagi v. Maman  Chand Ratilal Agarwal ,
  
  AIR 1980 SUPREME COURT 1201