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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)

Fitness for the number of occupantsE+W

356 Power to require information about occupation of house.E+W

(1)The local housing authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of a house or part of a house in respect of which there is in force a direction under section 354 (direction limiting number of occupants) a notice requiring him to furnish them within seven days with a statement in writing giving all or any of the following particulars—

(a)the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, living in the house or part of the house, as the case may be;

(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)An occupier who makes default in complying with the requirements of a notice under this section, or furnishes a statement which to his knowledge is false in a material particular, commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding [F1level 3] on the standard scale.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 356(2) substituted (3.3.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 78(3); S.I. 1997/350, art. 2