PART XIE+W HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. XI (ss. 345–400): power to apply certain functions conferred by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 65(2)(4)

C2Pt. XI (ss. 345-400) applied (17.12.1996) by 1996 c. 53, s. 90(b); S.I. 1996/2842, art. 3 (with transitional, supplementary and saving provisions in arts. 5-8)

Registration schemesE+W

350 Power to require information for purposes of scheme.E+W

(1)The local housing authority may—

(a)for the purpose of ascertaining whether a house . . . F1 is registrable, and

(b)for the purpose of ascertaining the particulars to be entered in the register as regards a house . . . F1,

require a person who has an estate or interest in, or who lives in, the house . . . F1 to state in writing any information in his possession which the authority may reasonably require for that purpose.

(2)A person who, having been required in pursuance of this section to give information to a local housing authority, fails to give the information, or knowingly makes a mis-statement in respect of it, commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding

[F2(a)]level 2 on the standard scale [F3in the case of such a failure; or

(b)level 3 on the standard scale in the case of such a mis-statement].

Textual Amendments

F3Words beginning “in the case” and s. 350(2)(b) added by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 165(1)(c), Sch. 9 Pt. III para. 48(2)