Power to regulate certain activities

Section 275 of the Cantonments Act, 2006 deals with power to regulate certain activities. A Board may, by order, regulate all or any of the following matters, namely:-- (a) the days on, and the hours during, which any private market or private slaughter-house may be kept open for use; The Act came into force on 18 Dec 2006.

A Board may, by order, regulate all or any of the following matters, namely:--

(a) the days on, and the hours during, which any private market or private slaughter-house may be kept open for use;

(b) the regulation of the design, ventilation and drainage of such market or slaughter-houses, and the material to be used in the construction thereof;

(c) the keeping of such markets and slaughter-houses and lands and buildings appertaining thereto in a clean and sanitary condition, the removal of filth and refuse therefrom, and the supply therein of pure water and of a sufficient number of latrines and urinals for the use of persons using or frequenting the same;

(d) the manner in which animals shall be stalled at a slaughter-house;

(e) the manner in which animals may be slaughtered;

(f) the disposal or destruction of animals offered for slaughter which are, from disease or any other cause, unfit for human consumption;

(g) the destruction of carcasses which from disease or any other cause are found after slaughter to be unfit for human consumption; and

(h) any other matter with respect to the regulation of such markets and slaughter-houses.

Section 275, The Cantonments Act, 2006 (Act 41 of 2006).