{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-350",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-350.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/350",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "350",
  "heading": "Power to require information for purposes of scheme.",
  "text": "(1) The local housing authority may—\n(a) for the purpose of ascertaining whether a house . . . is registrable, and\n(b) for the purpose of ascertaining the particulars to be entered in the register as regards a house . . . ,\nrequire the person having control of the house or the person managing the house or any person who has an estate or interest in, or who lives in, the house . . . to state in writing any information in his possession which the authority may reasonably require for that purpose.\n(2) A person who, having been required in pursuance of this section to give information to a local housing authority, fails to give the information, or knowingly makes a mis-statement in respect of it, commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding\n(a) level 3 on the standard scale in the case of such a failure; or\n(b) level 5 on the standard scale in the case of such a mis-statement.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "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      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), ss. 165(1)(c), 194(4), Sch. 9 Pt. III para. 48(1), Sch. 12 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 350(1) substituted (3.3.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 69(2) (with s. 70); S.I. 1997/350, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "“(a)” inserted by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 165(1)(c), Sch 9 Pt. III para. 48(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 350(2)(a) substituted (3.3.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 78(1)(a); S.I. 1997/350, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words beginning “in the case” and s. 350(2)(b) added by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 61), s. 165(1)(c), Sch. 9 Pt. III para. 48(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 350(2)(b) substituted (3.3.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 78(1)(b); S.I. 1997/350, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/350",
    "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."
}