Housing Act 1985

370Application of management code to particular houses.

(1)If it appears to the local housing authority that a house in multiple occupation is in an unsatisfactory state in consequence of failure to maintain proper standards of management and, accordingly, that it is necesary that the regulations made under section 369 should apply to the house, the authority may by order direct that those regulations shall so apply.

(2)The order comes into force when it is made.

(3)The local housing authority shall within seven days from the making of the order—

(a)serve a copy of it on an owner of the house and on every person who is to the knowledge of the authority a lessee of the house, and

(b)post a copy of it in some position in the house where it is accessible to those living in the house.

(4)The local housing authority may at any time revoke the order on the application of a person having an estate or interest in the house.

(5)An order under this section is a local land charge.