(1)The local authority may from time to time serve on the occupier of a house or part of a house in respect of which a direction under section 166 is in force a notice requiring him to furnish them within 7 days with a statement in writing giving all or any of the following particulars—
(a)the number of individuals who are, on a date specified in the notice, living in the house or part of the house, as the case may be;
(b)the number of families or households to which those individuals belong;
(c)the names, ages and sex of those individuals and the names of the heads of each of those families or households;
(d)the rooms used by those individuals and families or households respectively.
(2)If the occupier makes default in complying with the requirements or furnishes a statement which to his knowledge is false in any material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.