PART 4Social housing in England
CHAPTER 3Rents for high income social tenants
Mandatory rents for local authority tenants
I182Information about income
1
Rent regulations may give a local housing authority the power to require a tenant to provide information or evidence for the purpose of determining whether the local housing authority is obliged by the regulations to charge a specific level of rent and what that level is.
2
Rent regulations may require an English local housing authority to charge the maximum rent to a tenant who has failed to comply with a requirement.
3
Regulations made in reliance on subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision about—
a
the kind of information or evidence that may be required;
b
the time within which and the manner and form in which the information or evidence is to be provided.
4
In subsection (1) “tenant” includes prospective tenant.
5
In subsection (2) “the maximum rent” means the rent that a local housing authority is required to charge a high income tenant of the premises under section 80 (or, if regulations under section 80(3)(a) provide for different rents for people with different incomes, the rent that a person in the highest income bracket would be required to pay).