xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"

Part 1Housing conditions

Chapter 2Improvement notices, prohibition orders and hazard awareness notices

Prohibition orders

23Suspension of prohibition orders

(1)A prohibition order may provide for the operation of the order to be suspended until a time, or the occurrence of an event, specified in the order.

(2)The time so specified may, in particular, be the time when a person of a particular description begins, or ceases, to occupy any premises.

(3)The event so specified may, in particular, be a notified breach of an undertaking accepted by the local housing authority for the purposes of this section from a person on whom a copy of the order is served.

(4)In subsection (3) a “notified breach”, in relation to such an undertaking, means an act or omission by such a person—

(a)which the local housing authority consider to be a breach of the undertaking, and

(b)which is notified to that person in accordance with the terms of the undertaking.