# Housing Act 1985, Section 356: Power to require information about occupation of house.

Extent: E+W

(1) The local housing authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of a house or part of a house in respect of which there is in force a direction under section 354 (direction limiting number of occupants) a notice requiring him to furnish them within seven days with a statement in writing giving all or any of the following particulars—
(a) the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, living in the house or part of the house, as the case may be;
(b) the number of families or households to which those individuals belong;
(c) the names of those individuals and of the heads of each of those families or households;
(d) the rooms used by those individuals and families or households respectively.
(2) An occupier who makes default in complying with the requirements of a notice under this section, or furnishes a statement which to his knowledge is false in a material particular, commits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/356 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-356
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