Part 1Housing standards

Chapter 6Maintenance

Maintenance plans

49Enforcement of maintenance plans

1

Where the local authority considers that the owner of a house which is subject to a maintenance plan has failed to—

a

secure the carrying out of any maintenance required by the maintenance plan, or

b

do anything else required by the plan,

the local authority may itself do anything which it considers necessary or expedient for the purposes of securing the implementation of the plan.

2

Subsection (1) does not authorise the local authority to pay any sums—

a

into a maintenance account otherwise than in accordance with section 50, or

b

to any owner of a house to which the maintenance plan relates other than by way of a grant paid under section 51.