Section 219: Accommodation to be provided and payment therefor

(1) Where a person is billeted in pursuance of a billeting requisition, the occupier of the premises on which he is billeted shall provide such accommodation as the officer demanding the billet may require, not exceeding such accommodation as may be prescribed by regulations of the Forces Council made with the consent of the President.
(2) Where a vehicle is billeted in pursuance of a billeting requisition, the occupier of the premises shall furnish standing room for the vehicle.
(3) Where a person or vehicle has been billeted in pursuance of a billeting requisition, that person or vehicle may continue to be billeted, for such period as may be required, provided that section 216 of this Act continues in operation and the allotment of billets among the persons or vehicles billeted may be varied from time to time.
(4) The occupier on whose premises a person or vehicle is billeted in pursuance of a billeting requisition shall be entitled to receive for the billeting, such payment as may be prescribed by regulations of the Forces Council made with the consent of the President and no payment shall be required in respect of a vehicle billeted otherwise than in a building, unless the land on which it is billeted-
(a) has its surface made up for the passage or parking of vehicles; and
(b) is not land where vehicles are normally to stand free of charge irrespective of the person by whom they are owned or driven.
(5) Subject to the provisions of subsection (6) of this section, payment for billeting shall be made-
(a) before the persons billeting finally leave, or the vehicles are finally removed from the premises where they are billeted; and
(b) where the billeting continues for more than seven days, at least once in every seven days.
(6) If for any reason payment for billeting cannot be made, or fully made, as required by paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of this section, there shall be made up, with the occupier, an account, in such form as may be prescribed by the Forces Council, of the amount due to him.
(7) On presentation of the account under subsection (6) of this section, the local government for the area in which the premises are situated shall-
(a) pay to the occupier the amount stated in the account to be due; and
(b) be entitled to recover any sum paid under paragraph (a) of this section from the Forces Council.
(8) In relation to premises of which there is no occupier, the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply as if the person entitled to possession were the occupier of the premises.