PART X OVERCROWDING
Powers and duties of local housing authority
335 Power to require information about persons sleeping in dwelling.
(1)
The local housing authority may, for the purpose of enabling them to discharge their duties under this Part, serve notice on the occupier of a dwelling requiring him to give them within 14 days a written statement of the number, ages and sexes of the persons sleeping in the dwelling.
(2)
The occupier commits a summary offence if—
(a)
he makes default in complying with the requirement, or
(b)
he gives a statement which to his knowledge is false in a material particular,
and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.