367Appeal against notice under s. 366.
(1)A person on whom a notice is served under section 366 (means of escape from fire: notice requiring execution of works), or any other person who is an owner, lessee or mortgagee of the house to which the notice relates, may, within 21 days from the service of the notice, or such longer period as the local housing authority may in writing allow, appeal to the county court.
(2)The appeal may be on any of the following grounds—
(a)that the notice is not justified by the terms of that section;
(b)that there has been some informality, defect or error in, or in connection with, the notice;
(c)that the authority have refused unreasonably to approve the execution of alternative works, or that the works required by the notice to be executed are otherwise unreasonable in character or extent, or are unnecessary;
(d)that the time within which the works are to be executed is not reasonably sufficient for the purpose;
(e)that some other person is wholly or partly responsible for the state of affairs calling for the execution of the works, or will as the holder of an estate or interest in the premises derive a benefit from their execution, and ought to pay the whole or a part of the expenses of executing them.
(3)In so far as an appeal is based on the ground mentioned in subsection (2)(b), the court shall dismiss the appeal if it is satisfied that the informality, defect or error was not a material one.
(4)Where the grounds on which an appeal is brought include the ground mentioned in subsection (2)(e), the court, if satisfied that the other person referred to in the notice of appeal has had proper notice of the appeal, may on the hearing of the appeal make such order as it thinks fit with respect to the payment to be made by that other person to the appellant or, where the works are executed by the local housing authority, to the authority.