{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-364",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-364.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/364",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "364",
  "heading": "Power to require information where notice in force.",
  "text": "(1) The local housing authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of premises in respect of which an overcrowding notice is in force a notice requiring him to furnish them within seven days with a statement in writing giving any of the following particulars—\n(a) the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, occupying any part of the premises as sleeping accommodation;\n(b) the number of families or households to which those individuals belong;\n(c) the names of those individuals and of the heads of each of those families or households;\n(d) the rooms used by those individuals and families or households respectively.\n(2) A person who—\n(a) knowingly fails to comply with the requirements of such a notice, or\n(b) furnishes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular,\ncommits a summary offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding , in the case of such failure, level 3 on the standard scale and, in the case of furnishing such a statement, level 5 on the standard scale",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 364(2) substituted (3.3.1997) by 1996 c. 52, s. 78(4); S.I. 1997/350, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/364",
    "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."
}