Commentary on Sections Part 1 - Housing Conditions Chapter 2 – Improvement Notices, Prohibition Orders and Hazard Awareness Notices Section 35: Power of court to order occupier or owner to allow action to be taken on premises
145.Section 35 provides that, where an occupier, owner, person having control of or managing the premises, or licence holder under Part 2 or 3 of the Act is preventing the putting into effect of any action required by an improvement notice or necessary to give effect to a prohibition order, a magistrates’ court may order that person to permit that which the court considers necessary or expedient to be done on the premises.
146.Subsections (4), (5) and (6) make it an offence to fail to comply with an order of the court and provide penalties for non-compliance.