PART XI HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION
Fitness for the number of occupants
356 Power to require information about occupation of house.
(1)
The local housing authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of a house or part of a house in respect of which there is in force a direction under section 354 (direction limiting number of occupants) a notice requiring him to furnish them within seven days with a statement in writing giving all or any of the following particulars—
(a)
the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, living in the house or part of the house, as the case may be;
(b)
the number of families or households to which those individuals belong;
(c)
the names of those individuals and of the heads of each of those families or households;
(d)
the rooms used by those individuals and families or households respectively.
(2)
An occupier who makes default in complying with the requirements of a notice under this section, or furnishes a statement which to his knowledge is false in a material particular, commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding F1level 3 on the standard scale.