(1)The local housing authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of premises in respect of which an overcrowding notice is in force a notice requiring him to furnish them within seven days with a statement in writing giving any of the following particulars—
(a)the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, occupying any part of the premises as sleeping accommodation;
(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)A person who—
(a)knowingly fails to comply with the requirements of such a notice, or
(b)furnishes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular,
commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.