Housing (Scotland) Act 2006

30 Work notices

(1) The local authority may require the owner of a house to carry out work in it for the purposes of—

(a) implementing an HRA action plan in relation to any house identified in the plan, or

(b) bringing any house which the local authority considers to be sub-standard (whether or not situated in an HRA) into, or keeping it in, a reasonable state of repair.

(2) A requirement under subsection (1) must be made by serving notice (a “work notice”) in accordance with section 62.

(3) The work notice must specify—

(a) the reason for the requirement (by reference, if the requirement relates to any house other than the house in which the work is to be carried out, to the condition of that other house),

(b) the work which requires to be carried out,

(c) any standard which that house is to meet on completion of the work, and

(d) the period within which the work must be completed.

(4) The period so specified must be the period beginning with the date from which the notice has effect within which the local authority reasonably considers that the work required can be completed (but must not, in any case, be a period of less than 21 days).

(5) The work notice may also specify particular steps which the local authority requires to be taken in carrying out the work required.