Section 115 Power of local housing authority to require information from any personI1

Where an officer of a local housing authority reasonably suspects that there has been a breach of, or an offence under, the rented accommodation legislation, the officer may for a purpose mentioned in subsection (2) give notice to any person requiring the person to provide the local housing authority or an officer with information specified in the notice.

The purposes are—

In this Chapter “the rented accommodation legislation” means—

• sections 1 and 1A of the Protection from Eviction Act 1977;

• Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1988;

• Parts 1 to 4 and 7 of the Housing Act 2004 so far as relating to qualifying residential premises within the meaning given by section 2B of that Act;

• section 83(1) or 84(1) of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013;

• sections 21 to 23 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016;

• Chapter 3 of Part 1 and Part 2 of this Act.

A notice under this section must be in writing and must specify that it is given under this section.

The notice may specify—

The notice may require—

The notice must include information about the possible consequences of not complying with a notice under this section.

A requirement to provide information or create a document is a requirement to do so in a legible form.