Housing Act 1985

364 Power to require information where notice in force.E+W

(1)The local housing authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of premises in respect of which an overcrowding notice is in force a notice requiring him to furnish them within seven days with a statement in writing giving any of the following particulars—

(a)the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, occupying any part of the premises as sleeping accommodation;

(b)the number of families or households to which those individuals belong;

(c)the names of those individuals and of the heads of each of those families or households;

(d)the rooms used by those individuals and families or households respectively.

(2)A person who—

(a)knowingly fails to comply with the requirements of such a notice, or

(b)furnishes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular,

commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding [F1, in the case of such failure, level 3 on the standard scale and, in the case of furnishing such a statement, level 5 on the standard scale]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 364(2) substituted (3.3.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 78(4); S.I. 1997/350, art. 2