law: Cantonments Act, I924 
  2.Definitions .-
  In this Act, unless there is anything
  
  repugnant in the subject or context,-
  (i) " Assistant Health Officer " means the medical officer appointed
  
  by the { Subs.by Act 35 of 1926, s.2, for " Officer Commanding the
  
  District ".} [Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command,] to be the
  
  Assistant Health Officer for a cantonment;
  (ii) " Board " means a Cantonment Board constituted under this Act;
  {Ins.by Act 2 of 1954, s.2.} [(iia)
  
  "boundary wall" means a wall which abuts on a street and which does
  
  not exceed eight feet in height ;]
  (iii) " brigade area" means one of
  
  the brigade areas, whether occupied by a brigade or not, into which India is
  
  for military purposes for the time being divided, and includes for all or any
  
  of the purposes of this Act any area which the Central Government may, by
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a brigade area for such
  
  purpose or purposes;
  {Subs.by Act 24 of 1936, s.2, for the original
  
  clause.} [(iv) " building " means a house, outhouse, stable, latrine,
  
  shed, hut or other roofed structure whether of masonry, bricks, wood, mud,
  
  metal or other material, and any part thereof, and includes a well and a wall
  
  {Subs.by Act 2 of 1954, s.2, for " (other than a boundary wall not
  
  exceeding eight feet in height and not abutting on a street)".} [(other
  
  than a boundary wall)] but does not include a tent or other portable and
  
  temporary shelter ;]
  {Cl.(v) was rep.by Act 24 of 1936, s.2.}
  (vi) " casual election " means an
  
  election held to fill a casual vacancy;
  (vii) " casual vacancy " means a
  
  vacancy occurring otherwise than by efflux of time in the office of an elected
  
  member of a Board;
  (viii) " Command " means one of the
  
  Commands into which India is for military purposes for the time being divided,
  
  and includes any area which the Central Government may, by notification in the
  
  Official Gazette, declare to be a Command for all or any of the purposes of
  
  this Act;
  {Cl.(ix) was rep.By Act 12 of 1935, s.2 and
  
  Sch.I.}
  (x) "dairy " includes any farm,
  
  cattle-shed, milk-store, milk shop or other place from which milk is supplied
  
  or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale or is manufactured for sale into
  
  butter, ghee, cheese or curds, and, in relation to a dairyman who does not
  
  occupy any premises for the sale of milk, includes any place in which he keeps
  
  the vessels used by him for the storage or sale of milk;
  (xi) " dairyman " includes the keeper of a cow, buffalo, goat, ass or
  
  other animal, the milk of which is offered or is intended to be offered for
  
  sale for human consumption, and any purveyor of milk and any occupier of a
  
  dairy;
  {(Ins.by Act 24 of 1936, s.2.} [(xia) '
  
  entitled consumer " means a person in a cantonment who is paid from the
  
  Defense Services Estimates and is authorized by general or special order of the
  
  Central Government to receive a supply of water for domestic purposes from the
  
  Military Engineer Services or the Public Works Department on such terms and
  
  conditions as may be specified in the order ]
  (xii) " Executive Engineer " means the Public Works officer of that
  
  grade, or the {Subs.by Act 7 of 1925, s.2, for " Military Works Officer
  
  ".} [Officer of the Military Engineer Services] of the corresponding
  
  grade, having charge of the military works in a cantonment {Ins.by Act 24 of
  
  1936, s.2.} [or where more than one such officer has charge of the military
  
  works in a cantonment such one of those officers as the Officer Commanding the
  
  station may designate in this behalf], and includes the officer of whatever
  
  grade in immediate executive engineering charge of a cantonment;
  (xiii) " Executive Officer " means the person appointed under this
  
  Act to be the Executive Officer of a cantonment;
  (xiv) " Health Officer " means the
  
  senior executive medical officer in military employ on duty in a cantonment;
  {Cl.(xv) was rep.by Act 24 of 1936, s.2}
  (xvi) " hut " means any building, no
  
  material portion of which above the plinth level is constructed of masonry or
  
  of squared timber framing or of iron framing;
  (xvii) " infectious or contagious disease
  
  " means cholera, leprosy, enteric fever, small-pox, tuberculosis,
  
  diphtheria, plague, influenza, venereal disease, and any other epidemic,
  
  endemic or infectious disease which the {Subs.by the A.O.1937, for "
  
  L.G."} [Central Government] may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
  
  declare to be, an infectious or contagious disease for the purposes of this
  
  Act;
  (xviii) " inhabitant ", in relation to a cantonment, or local area,
  
  means any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business or owning or
  
  occupying immovable property therein, and in case of a dispute means any person
  
  declared by the District Magistrate to be an inhabitant;
  (xix) " intoxicating drug " means
  
  opium; ganja, bhang, charas and any preparation or admixture thereof, and
  
  includes any other intoxicating substance, or liquid which the {Subs.by the
  
  A.O.1937, for " L.G."} [Central Government] {The words " with
  
  the previous sanction of the G.G.in C." were rep.by Act 7 of 1925, s.2}
  
  may by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be an intoxicating drug
  
  for the purposes of this Act;
  (xx) " market " includes any place where 
  
  persons assemble for the purpose of selling meat, fish, fruit, vegetable, 
  
  livestock or any other article of food
  
  {Ins.by Act 24 of 1936, s.2.}[(xxa) "Military Estates Officer" means
  
  the officer appointed by the Central Government to perform the duties of the
  
  Military Estates Officer under rules made under clauses (a) and (b) of
  
  sub-section (2) of section 280 ;]
  (xxi) " Military officer " means-
  (a) a person who,
  
  being an officer within the meaning of {The words " the Army Act or "
  
  were omitted by the A.O.1950.} the {See now the Army Act, 1950 (46 of
  
  1950}.Indian Army Act, 1911, {The words " or the Air Force Act, "
  
  were omitted by the A.O.1950.} {Ins.by Act 24 of 1936, s.2.} [or 8 the Indian
  
  Air Force Act, 1932, {See now the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950).}] is
  
  commissioned and in pay as an officer doing military or air force duty with
  
  {The words " His Majesty's " were omitted by the A.O.1950.} military
  
  or air forces, or is an officer doing such duty in any arm, branch or part of
  
  those forces; or
  (b) a person doing
  
  military or air force duty as a warrant officer with either or those forces or
  
  with any arm, branch, or part thereof, whether he is or is not an officer
  
  within the meaning of {The words " the Army Act or " were omitted by
  
  the A.O.1950.} the {See now the Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950} Indian Army Act,
  
  l911, {The words " or the Air Force Act, " were omitted by the
  
  A.O.1950.} {Ins.by Act 24 of 1936, s.2.} [or the Indian Air Force Act, 1932
  
  {See now the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950).} ;]
  (xxii) " nuisance " includes any
  
  act, omission, place or thing which causes or is likely to cause injury,
  
  danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of sight, smell or hearing, or which
  
  is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property;
  (xxiii) " occupier " includes an
  
  owner in occupation of, or otherwise using his own land or building;
  (xxiv) " Officer Commanding the District
  
  " means the Officer Commanding any one of the districts into which India
  
  is for military purposes for the time being divided, or any brigade area which
  
  does not form part of any such district, or any area which the Central
  
  Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be such a
  
  district for all or any of the purposes of this Act;
  {Ins.by Act 12 of 1935, s.2 and Sch.I.}(xxiva)
  
  " Officer Commanding the station " means the military officer for the
  
  time being in command of the forces in a cantonment, or, if that officer is the
  
  Officer Commanding the District or Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command,
  
  the military officer who would be in command of those forces in the absence of
  
  the Officer Commanding the District and Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the
  
  Command ;]
  (xxv) " ordinary election " means an
  
  election held to fill a vacancy in the office of: an elected member of a Board
  
  arising by efflux of time;
  (xxvi) " owner" includes any person
  
  who is receiving or is entitled to receive the rent of any building or land
  
  whether on his own account or on behalf of himself and others or an agent or
  
  trustee, or who would so receive the rent or be entitled to receive it if the
  
  building or land were let to a tenant;
  (xxvii) " party wall " means a wall
  
  forming part of a building and used or constructed to be used for the support
  
  or separation of adjoining buildings belonging to different owners, or
  
  constructed or adapted to be occupied by different persons;
  (xxviii) "private market " means a market which is not maintained by
  
  a {Subs.by Act 24 of 1936, s.69, for " Cantonment Authority ".}
  
  [Board] and which is licensed by a {Subs.by Act 24 of 1936, s.69, for "
  
  Cantonment Authority ".} [Board] under the provisions of this Act;
  (xxix) " private slaughter-house "
  
  means a slaughter-house which is not maintained by a {Subs.by Act 24 of 1936,
  
  s.69, for " Cantonment Authority".} [Board] and which is licensed by
  
  a {Subs.by Act 24 of 1936, s.69, for " Cantonment Authority ".}
  
  [Board] under the provisions of this Act;
  (xxx) " public market" means a
  
  market maintained by a {Subs.by Act 24 of 1936, s.69, for " Cantonment
  
  Authority ".} [Board];
  (xxxi) " public place " means any
  
  place which is open to the use and enjoyment of the public, whether it is
  
  actually used or enjoyed by the public or not;
  (xxxii) " public slaughter-house "means a slaughter-house maintained
  
  by a {Subs.by Act 24 of 1936, s.69, for " Cantonment Authority ".}
  
  [Board];
  {Ins.by s.2, ibid} [(xxxiia) a person is
  
  deemed to reside in a cantonment if he maintains therein a house or a portion
  
  of a house which is at all times available for occupation by himself or his
  
  family even though he may himself reside elsewhere, provided that he has not
  
  abandoned all intention of again occupying such house either by himself or his
  
  family;]
  (xxxiii) " shed " means a slight or
  
  temporary structure for shade or shelter;
  (xxxiv) "slaughter-house" means any
  
  place ordinarily used for the slaughter of animals for the purpose of selling
  
  the flesh thereof for human consumption;
  (xxxv) " soldier " means a person
  
  who is a soldier or airman within the meaning of the Army Act or the Air Force
  
  Act, or is subject to the Indian Army Act, l911{See now the Army Act, 1950 (46
  
  of 1950).} , and who is not a military officer;
  (xxxvi) "spirituous liquor" means any fermented liquor, any wine, or
  
  any alcoholic liquid obtained by distillation or the sap of any kind of palm
  
  tree, and includes any other liquid containing alcohol which the {Subs.by the
  
  A.O.1937, for " L.G." } [Central Government] {The words " with
  
  the previous sanction of the G.G.in C." were rep.by Act 7 of 1925, s.2.}
  
  may by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a spirituous liquor
  
  for the purposes of this Act;
  (xxxvii) " street " includes any
  
  way, road, lane, square, court, alley {Subs.by Act 24 of 1936, s.2, for "
  
  passage or open space ".} [or passage] in a cantonment, whether a
  
  thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a
  
  right-of-way and also the road-way or footway over any bridge or causeway;
  (xxxviii) " vehicle " means a wheeled conveyance of any description
  
  which is capable of being used on a street, and includes a motor-car, motor
  
  lorry, motor omnibus, cart, locomotive, tram-car, hand-cart, truck,
  
  motor-cycle, bicycle, tricycle and rickshaw; {The word " and " was
  
  rep.by s.2, ibid.}
  (xxxix) " water-works " includes all
  
  lakes, tanks, streams, cisterns, springs, pumps, wells, reservoirs, aqueducts,
  
  water-trucks, sluices, mains, pipes, culverts, hydrants, stand-pipes, and
  
  conduits, and all machinery, lands, buildings, bridges and things, used for, or
  
  intended for the purpose of, supplying water to a cantonment,{Ins.by s.2,
  
  ibid.} [and(xi) "year " means the year commencing on the first day of
  
  April.]
  2A.[Rule of construction.] Rep.by the
  
  Cantonments (Amendment) Act, 1954 (2 of 1954).s.3.