F1F1 PART XI HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION
Fitness for the number of occupants
356 Power to require information about occupation of house.
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 F2level 3 on the standard scale.
Ss. 345-400 (Pt. XI) repealed (6.4.2006 for E. and 16.6.2006 for W.) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), ss. 266, 270(4)(5), Sch. 16; S.I. 2006/1060, art. 2(1)(e)(v) (with Sch.); S.I. 2006/1535, art. 2(c)(v) (with Sch.) (certain of the repeal(s) being subject to temp. savings in S.I. 2007/1904, (for E.) regs. 1(2) {13} (1.10.2007) and S.I. 2007/3231, (for W.) regs. 1(2), {13} (5.12.2007))