Housing Act 1985

387 Right of entry for inspection and carrying out of works.

(1) The local housing authority, and any person authorised in writing by the authority, have, as against a person having an estate or interest in a house which is subject to a control order, the right at all reasonable times to enter any part of the house for the purpose of survey and examination or of carrying out works.

(2) The right conferred by subsection (1) is without prejudice to the rights conferred on the authority by section 381 (general effect of control order).

(3) Where part of a house is excluded from the provisions of a control order under section 380 (modification of order where dispossessed proprietor resides in part of the house), the right conferred by subsection (1) is exercisable as respects that part so far as is reasonably required for the purpose of survey and examination of, or carrying out works in, the part of the house which is subject to the control order.

(4) If the occupier of part of a house subject to a control order, after receiving notice of the intended action, prevents any officers, agents, servants, or workmen of the local housing authority from carrying out work in the house a magistrates' court may order him to permit to be done on the premises anything which the authority consider necessary.

(5) A person who fails to comply with an order of the court under subsection (4) commits a summary offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and to a further fine not exceeding £20 for every day or part of a day during which the failure continues.