Section 6(1)(b) in Cantonments (House-Accommodation ) Act, 1923
(b)the Officer Commanding the station is satisfied on inquiry that there is not in the cantonment a sufficient and assured supply of houses available at reasonable rates of rent by private agreement to meet the requirements of the military officers and military messes whose accomodation in the cantonment is in his opinion necessary or expedient, the Officer Commanding the station may, with a view of enforcing the liability under section 5, serve a notice on the owner of any house which appears to him to be suitable for occupation by a military officer or a military mess, as the case may be, within the cantonment, or, if this Act is in force in part only of the cantonment, within that part, requiring the owner to permit the house to be inspected, measured and surveyed by such person and on such date, not being less than three clear days from the service of the notice, and at such tie between sunrise and sunset, as may be specified in the notice.