PART VIII HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION
Powers of local authority to require works to be done
160 Notice requiring compliance with management code.
1
If in the opinion of the local authority the condition of a house is defective in consequence of—
a
neglect to comply with the requirements imposed by regulations under section 156 (regulations prescribing management code), or
b
in respect of a period falling wholly or partly before the regulations applied to the house, neglect to comply with standards corresponding to the requirements imposed by the regulations,
the authority may serve on the person managing the house a notice specifying the works which in the opinion of the authority are required to make good the neglect, and requiring the person on whom the notice is served to execute those works.
2
If it is not practicable after reasonable inquiry to ascertain the name or address of the person managing the house, the notice under this section may be served by addressing it to him by the description of “manager of the house” (naming the house to which it relates) and by delivering it to some person on the premises.
3
The notice shall require the execution of the works specified in the notice within such period, being not less than 21 days from the service of the notice, as may be so specified.
4
That period may from time to time be extended by written permission of the local authority.
5
Where the local authority serve a notice on any person under this section they shall inform any other person who is to their knowledge an owner or lessee of the house or a person holding a heritable security over the house of the fact that such a notice has been served.