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Section 339: Enforcement of this Part.

Housing Act 1985 · 1985 c. 68View on legislation.gov.uk

Part X: OVERCROWDING

The local housing authority shall enforce the provisions of this Part.

A prosecution for an offence against those provisions may be brought only—

by the local housing authority,or
in the case of a prosecution against the authority themselves, with the consent of the Attorney General.

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