Individual officers of landlord companies can be prosecuted or, with the exception of offences under section 32, subsection (1) of the Housing Act 2004 and section 6, subsection (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, subject to a civil penalty for the offences to which rent repayment orders apply. This new section ensures that individual officers of landlord companies may also be subject to rent repayment orders for those offences.
Part 4: Enforcement Chapter 1 – Sanctions Section 104: Rent repayment orders: liability of directors etc Background