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(1)Where a local authority seek to recover expenses incurred by them under any enactment in respect of work done on a house from a person mentioned in subsection (2), that person's liability shall, if he proves the matters mentioned in subsection (3), be limited to the total amount of the funds, rents and other assets which he has, or has had, in his hands.
In this section "house" includes a building which contains a house, or a part of such a building.
(2)The person mentioned in subsection (1) is a person who receives the rent of the house as trustee, tutor, curator, factor or agent for or of some other person or as the liquidator of a company.
(3)The matters that person requires to prove are—
(a)that he is a person mentioned in subsection (2); and
(b)that he has not, and since the date of service on him of a demand for payment of the expenses has not had, in his hands on behalf of that other person or, in the case of a liquidator of a company, on behalf of the creditors or members of the company, sufficient funds, rents and other assets to pay those expenses in full.
(4)Nothing in this section affects any right of a local authority to recover the whole or any part of those expenses from any other person.
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