F1F1 PART XI HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION

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F1

Ss. 345-400 (Pt. XI) repealed (6.4.2006 for E. and 16.6.2006 for W.) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), ss. 266, 270(4)(5), Sch. 16; S.I. 2006/1060, art. 2(1)(e)(v) (with Sch.); S.I. 2006/1535, art. 2(c)(v) (with Sch.) (certain of the repeal(s) being subject to temp. savings in S.I. 2007/1904, (for E.) regs. 1(2) {13} (1.10.2007) and S.I. 2007/3231, (for W.) regs. 1(2), {13} (5.12.2007))

Overcrowding

364 Power to require information where notice in force.

1

The local housing authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of premises in respect of which an overcrowding notice is in force a notice requiring him to furnish them within seven days with a statement in writing giving any of the following particulars—

a

the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, occupying any part of the premises as sleeping accommodation;

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

A person who—

a

knowingly fails to comply with the requirements of such a notice, or

b

furnishes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular,

commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding F2, in the case of such failure, level 3 on the standard scale and, in the case of furnishing such a statement, level 5 on the standard scale