Version Superseded: 03/03/1997
Point in time view as at 20/01/1997. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Housing Act 1985, Section 408 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)It is a summary offence for a person—
(a)to contravene or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Part;
(b)being the registered keeper of a common lodging house, to fail to keep the premises suitably equipped for use as such;
(c)to apply to be registered as the keeper of a common lodging house at a time when he is, under section 409, disqualified from being so registered; or
(d)in an application for registration, or for the renewal of his registration, as the keeper of a common lodging house, to make a statement which he knows to be false.
(2)A person committing such an offence is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding [F1level 2] on the standard scale and, subject to subsection (3), to a further fine not exceeding [F2one-tenth of the amount corresponding to that level] for each day on which the offence continues after conviction.
(3)The court by which a person is convicted of the original offence may fix a reasonable period from the date of conviction for compliance by the defendant with any directions given by the court and, where a court has fixed such a period, the daily penalty is not recoverable in respect of any day before the period expires.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 194(1), Sch. 11 para. 75(a)
F2Words substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 194(1), Sch. 11 para. 75(b)
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