Section 364 — Housing Act 1985: Power to require information where notice in force.

Power to require information where notice in force. 364 1 The local housing authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of premises in respect of which an overcrowding notice is in force a notice requiring him to furnish them within seven days with a statement in writing giving any of the following particulars—

a the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, occupying any part of the premises as sleeping accommodation;

b the number of families or households to which those individuals belong;

c the names of those individuals and of the heads of each of those families or households;

d the rooms used by those individuals and families or households respectively.

2 A person who—

a knowingly fails to comply with the requirements of such a notice, or b furnishes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular, commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding , in the case of such failure, level 3 on the standard scale and, in the case of furnishing such a statement, level 5 on the standard scale