Power to require payment for enforcement action
26.—(1) The appropriate district council may require a person upon whom a notice of unfitness or a notice of disrepair has been served to make such reasonable payment as it considers appropriate in respect of the administrative and other expenses incurred by it in connection with serving the notice.
(2) The expenses are those incurred in–
(a)determining whether to serve the notice,
(b)identifying the works to be specified in the notice, and
(c)serving the notice.
(3) The amount of the payment shall not exceed such amount as the Department may specify by order made subject to negative resolution.
(4) Where a court allows an appeal against a notice of unfitness or notice of disrepair, it may make such order as it thinks fit reducing, quashing or requiring reimbursement of any payment under this Article in respect of the notice.
(5) Nothing in Article 25 shall prejudice the power of a district council to require a payment under this Article.