Section 9 Power of local authority to require information as to interests in land.C1

A local authority may, for the purpose of enabling them to perform any of their functions under this Part of this Act, require the occupier of any land, and any person who directly or indirectly receives rent in respect of any land, to state in writing the nature of his own interest therein and the name and address of any other person known to him as having an interest therein, whether as freeholder, lessee, mortgagee or otherwise.

Any person who, having been required by a local authority under this section to give them any information, fails to give that information, or knowingly makes any misstatement in respect thereof, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

In the application of this section to Scotland for the words from “freeholder” to the end of subsection (1) there shall be substituted “superior, owner, heritable creditor, lessee or otherwise”; and the expression “heritable creditor” shall have the like meaning as in the M1Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947.