Paragraph 6 Recovery of financial penalty

(1)

This paragraph applies if the private landlord does not pay the whole or any part of a financial penalty which, in accordance with this Schedule, the private landlord is liable to pay.

(2)

The local housing authority which imposed the financial penalty may recover the penalty or part on the order of the county court as if it were payable under an order of that court.

(3)

In proceedings before the county court for the recovery of a financial penalty or part of a financial penalty, a certificate which—

(a)

is signed by the chief finance officer of the local housing authority which imposed the penalty; and

(b)

states that the amount due has not been received by a date specified in the certificate

is conclusive evidence that the amount has not been received by that date.

(4)

A certificate to that effect and purporting to be so signed is to be treated as being so signed, unless the contrary is proved.

(5)

In this paragraph “chief finance officer” has the same meaning as in section 5 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1989 c. 42. Relevant part amended by Schedule 22(4), paragraph 1 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23); words inserted by section 132(2) of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), Schedule 16(13), paragraph 202(6)(a) of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), and Schedule 1(2), paragraph 63(4)(a) of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3).