{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-315",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-315.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/315",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "315",
  "heading": "Power of court to order occupier or owner to permit things to be done.",
  "text": "(1) If a person, after receiving notice of the intended action—\n(a) being the occupier of premises, prevents the owner . . . of the premises, or his officers, servants or agents, from carrying into effect with respect to the premises any of the provisions of this Part, or\n(b) being the occupier, or owner of premises, prevents an officer, servant or agent of the local housing authority from so doing,\na magistrates’ court may order him to permit to be done on the premises all things requisite for carrying into effect those provisions.\n(2) A person who fails to comply with an order of the court under this section commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding £20 in respect of each day during which the failure continues.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), ss. 165(1)(b), 194(4), Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 37(a), Sch. 12 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 165(1)(b), Sch. 9 Pt. II para. 37(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/315",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}