Part 1Housing standards
Chapter 8Supplemental provisions, including appeals
Supplemental
60Certification
(1)
A person who is required to carry out work by—
(a)
a work notice, or
(b)
a repairing standard enforcement order,
may apply for certification that the work has been completed.
(2)
An application under subsection (1) is to be made—
(a)
where it is made in consequence of a work notice, to the local authority, or
(b)
where it is made in consequence of a repairing standard enforcement order, to the F1First-tier Tribunal.
(3)
Where the work was carried out by the local authority under section 35 or 36, an application under this section is not competent unless the applicant has paid any expenses demanded by the local authority under section 59 in relation to that work.
(4)
The local authority or, as the case may be, the F2First-tier Tribunal must grant the certificate applied for if satisfied that the work required by the notice or order has been completed.
(5)
F3The First-tier Tribunal may, of its own accord—
(a)
inspect any house in respect of which F4it has made a repairing standard enforcement order, and
(b)
if F5it is satisfied that the work required by the order has been completed, certify that the work has been completed,
but the F6First-tier Tribunal may not exercise its power under this subsection unless the period within which the order requires the work to be carried out has ended.