PART VII OVERCROWDING
Powers and duties of local authority
147 Power to require information about persons sleeping in house.
1
The local authority may, for the purpose of enabling them to discharge their duties under this Part, serve notice on the occupier of a house requiring him to give them within 14 days a written statement of the number, ages and sexes of the persons sleeping in the house.
2
The occupier shall be guilty of an offence if—
a
he makes default in complying with the requirement, or
b
he gives a statement which to his knowledge is false in a material particular,
and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.