PART XIHOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION

Overcrowding

364Power to require information where notice in force.

(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.