Part 7

Housing: antisocial behaviour notices

Failure to comply with notice: sanctions

Failure to comply with notice: action by authority at landlord’s expense
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1
Subsections (2) and (3) apply where—
a
a local authority serves an antisocial behaviour notice on a landlord under section 68(1);
b
the landlord fails to take the action specified in the notice within the time so specified; and
c
in consequence of that failure, it appears to the authority that it is necessary for it to take steps to deal with the antisocial behaviour described in the notice.
2
The local authority may take such steps as it considers necessary to deal with the antisocial behaviour described in the notice.
3
In such circumstances as the Scottish Ministers may by regulations prescribe, the landlord shall be liable for expenditure—
a
incurred, by virtue of subsection (2), by the local authority; and
b
of such description as may be so prescribed.
4
Regulations under subsection (3) may include provision for or in connection with—
a
imposing requirements on local authorities and landlords as respects arrangements for the notification and collection of expenditure of a description prescribed in the regulations;
b
specifying arrangements for the settling of disputes arising by virtue of subsection (3).