Regulation 5 Duty of landlord to comply with a remedial notice
Where a remedial notice is served on a landlord, the landlord must take the remedial action specified in the notice within—
where no representations are made under regulation 4(2) and the remedial notice is not withdrawn, the period specified in regulation 4(2)(d); or
where representations are made under regulation 4(2) and the outcome of the consideration under regulation 4(5) is to confirm the remedial notice, 21 days beginning on the day on which the landlord is informed that the suspension under regulation 4(6) ceases to have effect.
A landlord is not to be taken to be in breach of the duty under paragraph (1) if the landlord can show that they have taken all reasonable steps to comply with that duty.
For the purposes of paragraph (2), where a landlord is prevented from entering the dwelling-house to which the duty under paragraph (1) relates by the tenant of the dwelling-house, the landlord will not be considered to have failed to have taken all reasonable steps to comply with the duty under paragraph (1) solely by reason of a failure to bring legal proceedings with a view to securing entry to the dwelling-house.