PART VI CLOSING AND DEMOLITION ORDERS

Powers of local authority

118 Service.

1

Any order made or notice issued under sections 114 to 117 in respect of a house or building shall be served—

a

upon the person having control of the house or, as the case may be, the house or houses comprised in the building;

b

upon any other person who is an owner of the house or, as the case may be, any of those houses;

c

upon any person holding a heritable security over the house or, as the case may be, any of those houses, unless it appears to the local authority, after exercising their powers under section 325, that there is no such person; and

d

where an application has been made in relation to the house, or, as the case may be, those houses, under section 116, by a person upon whom the order or notice is not required to be served apart from this paragraph, upon that person.

2

In subsection (1), references to an owner of, and to any person holding a heritable security over, a building shall be construed as including respectively references to an owner of, and to any person holding a heritable security over, any part of the building.