[F132VImprovement notice: offenceS
(1)It an offence for a licence holder who has been served with an improvement notice to fail to take the steps specified in the notice within the period so specified.
(2)A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £10,000.
(3)In proceedings against a licence holder for an offence under subsection (1), it is a defence that the licence holder had a reasonable excuse for failing to take the steps referred to in subsection (1) within the period referred to in that subsection.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 32U-32W and cross-heading inserted (S.) (1.5.2017) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 14), ss. 75, 104(3); S.S.I. 2016/412, art. 2, sch.