443.This section enables an enforcing authority to give a compliance notice to any person it considers has contravened, is contravening or is likely to contravene, a requirement that the authority has the function of enforcing.
444.A compliance notice must require the person to do, within a specified time, one or more of the things set out in subsection (2).
445.Subsection (3) provides that the enforcing authority may state that the notice is an “urgent action notice”, if it considers that a contravention has placed or will place people in or about the regulated building or relevant HMO in imminent danger.
446.Subsection (4) provides that, at the same time as giving a compliance notice, the enforcing authority must give the person a statement that summarises the requirements of the notice, explains the consequences of failing to comply and informs the recipient of their right to appeal. Where a compliance notice is given certain others must be informed (subsections (5) and (6)).
447.Section 97(5) and (6) make provision as to the effect of an appeal against a compliance notice and a compliance notice that is an urgent action notice.
448.Failure to comply with a compliance notice is an offence under section 101 (subject to the defence detailed in section 101(2)), see also section 101(4).
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