Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. XI (ss. 345–400): power to apply certain functions conferred by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 65(2)(4)
C2Pt. XI (ss. 345-400) applied (17.12.1996) by 1996 c. 53, s. 90(b); S.I. 1996/2842, art. 3 (with transitional, supplementary and saving provisions in arts. 5-8)
(1)The local housing authority, and any person authorised in writing by the authority, have, as against a person having an estate or interest in a house which is subject to a control order, the right at all reasonable times to enter any part of the house for the purpose of survey and examination or of carrying out works.
(2)The right conferred by subsection (1) is without prejudice to the rights conferred on the authority by section 381 (general effect of control order).
(3)Where part of a house is excluded from the provisions of a control order under section 380 (modification of order where dispossessed proprietor resides in part of the house), the right conferred by subsection (1) is exercisable as respects that part so far as is reasonably required for the purpose of survey and examination of, or carrying out works in, the part of the house which is subject to the control order.
(4)If the occupier of part of a house subject to a control order, after receiving notice of the intended action, prevents any officers, agents, servants, or workmen of the local housing authority from carrying out work in the house a magistrates’ court may order him to permit to be done on the premises anything which the authority consider necessary.
(5)A person who fails to comply with an order of the court under subsection (4) commits a summary offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding [F1level 5 on the standard scale]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 387(5) substituted (3.3.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 78(9); S.I. 1997/350, art. 2