Part XIIE+W Common Lodging Houses

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. XII (ss. 401–416): power to apply certain functions conferred by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 65(2)(a)(4)

Regulation of common lodging housesE+W

408 Offences.E+W

(1)It is a summary offence for a person—

(a)to contravene or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Part;

(b)being the registered keeper of a common lodging house, to fail to keep the premises suitably equipped for use as such;

(c)to apply to be registered as the keeper of a common lodging house at a time when he is, under section 409, disqualified from being so registered; or

(d)in an application for registration, or for the renewal of his registration, as the keeper of a common lodging house, to make a statement which he knows to be false.

(2)A person committing such an offence is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding [F1level 2] on the standard scale and, subject to subsection (3), to a further fine not exceeding [F2one-tenth of the amount corresponding to that level] for each day on which the offence continues after conviction.

(3)The court by which a person is convicted of the original offence may fix a reasonable period from the date of conviction for compliance by the defendant with any directions given by the court and, where a court has fixed such a period, the daily penalty is not recoverable in respect of any day before the period expires.

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