Section 23: Suspension of prohibition orders

Housing Act 2004 · 2004 c. 34View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Housing conditions — Chapter 2: Improvement notices, prohibition orders and hazard awareness notices

A prohibition order may provide for the operation of the order to be suspended until a time, or the occurrence of an event, specified in the order.

The time so specified may, in particular, be the time when a person of a particular description begins, or ceases, to occupy any premises.

The event so specified may, in particular, be a notified breach of an undertaking accepted by the local housing authority for the purposes of this section from a person on whom a copy of the order is served.

In subsection (3) a "notified breach", in relation to such an undertaking, means an act or omission by such a person—

which the local housing authority consider to be a breach of the undertaking, and
which is notified to that person in accordance with the terms of the undertaking.

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