Section 55 Supplementary provisions as to notices under s.52

Any expenses incurred by the owner or occupier of a building for the purpose of complying with a notice under section fifty-two of this Act, and any sums paid by the owner of a building under the last preceding section in respect of expenses incurred by the local planning authority in taking steps required to be taken by such a notice, shall be deemed to be incurred or paid for the use and at the request of the person who carried out the works to which the notice relates.

Subsections (2) and (3) of section forty-nine of this Act shall have effect in relation to notices under section fifty-two thereof, as if any reference therein to an enforcement notice were a reference to a notice under the said section fifty-two.

Any regulations made by virtue of the last preceding subsection may provide for the charging on the land of any expenses recoverable by a local authority under the last preceding section.