PART 2REGISTERED SOCIAL LANDLORDS

CHAPTER 3REGULATION

Survey and examination

I142Failure to give notice to occupiers

1

Amend section 37 of the Housing Act 1996 (power to enter premises to carry out survey and examination) as follows.

2

In subsection (3)—

a

the second sentence of the existing provision becomes subsection (3A),

b

in subsection (3A), for “who fails to do so” substitute “ who fails, without reasonable excuse, to give the required notice in relation to premises in Wales ”, and

c

after subsection (3A) insert—

3B

A landlord who fails to give the required notice in relation to premises in England commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

3

In subsection (4), for “(3)” substitute “ (3A) or (3B) ”.