Section 23 — Housing Act 2004: Suspension of prohibition orders

Suspension of prohibition orders 23 1 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.

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

3 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.

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

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