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three weeks from the service of their notice the landlord has not
undertaken to remedy the delects specified on the Council's notice.
Where a landlord gives an undertaking to carry out the necessary
repairs the Council, with certain exceptions, must not issue a
certificate.
If, however, the landlord has failed to carry out his undertaking
by the end of six months, then, so long as the delects remain
unremedied, the rent must be adjusted in the same way as if a
certificate of disrepair had been issued.
The Act gives the local authority power to refuse to accept an
undertaking by a landlord in certain cases.
In cases where a landlord has given an undertaking which has been
accepted by the Council, either the tenant or landlord may, if they
wish, at the end of six months apply to the local authority for a
certificate as to the remedying of defects for which a landlord has
given an undertaking. This certificate when granted may be used as
evidence that the defects have, or have not, been satisfactorily remedied,
as the case may be.
Details of the applications received during the year for the
various certificates are as follow:-
No. of applications for certificates or disrepair 321
No. of applications for certificates of disrepair
refused 5
No. of notices to landlords of the Council's
intention to Issue a certificate of disrepair 332
No. of undertakings received from landlords and
accepted by the Council 209
No. of undertakings received from landlords but
which the Council refused to accept 3
No. of Certificates of Disrepair issued 143
No. of certificates issued to landlords as to the
remedying of delects for which the landlord
had previously given an undertaking. 28
No. of certificates issued to tenants as to the
remedying of defects for which the landlord
had previously given an undertaking 31
On the ground that the defects specified on the certificates of
disrepair had been remediedp 121 applications for cancellation of the
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