Section 356: Power to require information about occupation of house.

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

Part XI: HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION

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—

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;
the number of families or households to which those individuals belong;
the names of those individuals and of the heads of each of those families or households;
the rooms used by those individuals and families or households respectively.

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 level 3 on the standard scale.

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