Rent regulations may give a local housing authority the power to require a tenant to provide information or evidence for the purpose of determining whether the local housing authority is obliged by the regulations to charge a specific level of rent and what that level is.
Rent regulations may require an English local housing authority to charge the maximum rent to a tenant who has failed to comply with a requirement.
Regulations made in reliance on subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision about—
In subsection (1) "tenant" includes prospective tenant.
In subsection (2) "the maximum rent" means the rent that a local housing authority is required to charge a high income tenant of the premises under section 80 (or, if regulations under section 80(3)(a) provide for different rents for people with different incomes, the rent that a person in the highest income bracket would be required to pay).