Part 7Housing: antisocial behaviour notices
Failure to comply with notice: sanctions
79Failure to comply with notice: offence
(1)
Where—
(a)
a local authority serves an antisocial behaviour notice on a landlord under section 68(1) F1or (1A); and
(b)
the landlord fails to take the action specified in the notice within the time so specified,
the landlord shall be guilty of an offence.
(2)
A landlord guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(3)
It shall be a defence for a landlord charged with an offence under subsection (1) to show that there was a reasonable excuse for the failure in question.