Health Act 1956

Miscellaneous provisions

134: Failure to disclose name of owner or occupier

You could also call this:

"Telling authorities who owns or runs a place when they ask"

If you are the person in charge of a premises, or if you are acting for the owner, you must tell the medical officer of health or the environmental health officer the owner's name and address if they ask you. You will be breaking the law if you refuse to tell them or give them the wrong information. You must give them the correct information when they ask for it.

If you are the owner of a premises, you must tell the medical officer of health or the environmental health officer the name of the person in charge of the premises if they ask you. You will be breaking the law if you refuse to tell them or give them the wrong information. This is part of the Health Act 1956.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions

134Failure to disclose name of owner or occupier

  1. The occupier, or the agent of the owner, of any premises commits an offence against this Act if he refuses or wilfully fails to disclose or wilfully misstates the name and address of the owner of the premises when requested by the medical officer of health or any environmental health officer to state that name and address.

  2. The owner of any premises commits an offence against this Act if he refuses or wilfully fails to disclose or wilfully misstates the name of the occupier of the premises when requested by a medical officer of health or any environmental health officer to state that name.

Notes
  • Section 134(1): amended, on , pursuant to section 2(4) of the Health Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 99).
  • Section 134(2): amended, on , pursuant to section 2(4) of the Health Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 99).