Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 13A inserted (6.4.2017) by Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22), s. 216(3), Sch. 9 para. 8; S.I. 2017/281, reg. 4(f)
1E+WBefore imposing a financial penalty on a person under section 249A the local housing authority must give the person notice of the authority's proposal to do so (a “notice of intent”).
2(1)The notice of intent must be given before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the first day on which the authority has sufficient evidence of the conduct to which the financial penalty relates.E+W
(2)But if the person is continuing to engage in the conduct on that day, and the conduct continues beyond the end of that day, the notice of intent may be given—
(a)at any time when the conduct is continuing, or
(b)within the period of 6 months beginning with the last day on which the conduct occurs.
(3)For the purposes of this paragraph a person's conduct includes a failure to act.
3E+WThe notice of intent must set out—
(a)the amount of the proposed financial penalty,
(b)the reasons for proposing to impose the financial penalty, and
(c)information about the right to make representations under paragraph 4.]