PART 5Mobile home sites with permanent residents

Fit and proper persons

I172Fit and proper person: criminal conviction certificate

After section 32O of the 1960 Act (inserted by section 71), insert—

32PFit and proper person: criminal conviction certificate

1

A local authority may, in deciding under this Part if a person is a fit and proper person, require the person in respect of whom the decision is being made to provide the local authority with a criminal conviction certificate (within the meaning of section 112 of the Police Act 1997 (c.50)).

2

A local authority may require a criminal conviction certificate to be provided under subsection (1) only if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that the information provided under this Part in relation to material falling within section 32O(2) is, or has become, inaccurate.