{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-284",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/section-284.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/284",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "284",
  "heading": "Power to require production of certificates or statements",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies if an authorised officer of an enforcement authority believes that a person is, or has been, subject to a duty imposed by virtue of section 279 to supply a certificate or statement in relation to a particular property.\n(2) The officer may require the person to produce for inspection a copy of the certificate or statement.\n(3) The power conferred by subsection (2) includes power—\n(a) to require the production of a legible hard copy of any certificate or statement which is held in electronic form, and\n(b) to take copies of any hard copy produced for inspection.\n(4) A requirement under this section may not be imposed more than 6 months after the last day for supplying the certificate or statement concerned in pursuance of the duty imposed by virtue of section 279.\n(5) A person is not required to comply with a requirement under this section if the person has a reasonable excuse for not complying with the requirement.\n(6) Subject to this, a person subject to such a requirement must comply with it within the period of 7 days beginning with the day after that on which it is imposed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/section/284",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:57.313988+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."
}