Housing and Planning Act 2016 (c. 22)

SCHEDULES

Valid from 06/04/2018

SCHEDULE 1 E+W Financial penalty for breach of banning order

Notice of intent E+W

1 E+W Before imposing a financial penalty on a person under section 23 a local housing authority must give the person notice of its proposal to do so (a “notice of intent”).

2 (1) The notice of intent must be given before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the first day on which the authority has sufficient evidence of the conduct to which the financial penalty relates. E+W

(2) But if the person is continuing to engage in the conduct on that day, and the conduct continues beyond the end of that day, the notice of intent may be given—

(a) at any time when the conduct is continuing, or

(b) within the period of 6 months beginning with the last day on which the conduct occurs.

3 E+W The notice of intent must set out—

(a) the amount of the proposed financial penalty,

(b) the reasons for proposing to impose the financial penalty, and

(c) information about the right to make representations under paragraph 4.