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