Section 7 Category 2 hazards: powers to take enforcement actionI1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

s. 7(1) words substituted by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 Sch. 4 para. 7(2)
s. 7(2)(c) word substituted by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 Sch. 4 para. 7(3)
s. 7(3) words inserted by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 Sch. 4 para. 7(4)(a)
s. 7(3) words inserted by Renters’ Rights Act 2025 Sch. 4 para. 7(4)(b)

(1)

The provisions mentioned in subsection (2) confer power on a local housing authority to take particular kinds of enforcement action in cases where they consider that a category 2 hazard exists on residential premises.

(2)

The provisions are—

(a)

section 12 (power to serve an improvement notice),

(b)

section 21 (power to make a prohibition order),

(c)

section 29 (power to serve a hazard awareness notice),

(d)

section 265(3) and (4) of the Housing Act 1985 (power to make a demolition order), and

(e)

section 289(2ZB) of that Act (power to make a slum clearance declaration).

(3)

The taking by the authority of one of those kinds of enforcement action in relation to a particular category 2 hazard does not prevent them from taking either—

(a)

the same kind of action again, or

(b)

a different kind of enforcement action,

in relation to the hazard, where they consider that the action taken by them so far has not proved satisfactory.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: S. 7 wholly in force at 16.6.2006; s. 7 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 270(4)(5); s. 7 in force for E. at 6.4.2006 by S.I. 2006/1060, art. 2(1)(a) (with Sch.); s. 7 in force for W. at 16.6.2006 by S.I. 2006/1535, art. 2(a) (with Sch.)