68Council may give notice requiring house to be and to remain unoccupied or requiring the occupier to vacate house

68 Council may give notice requiring house to be and to remain unoccupied or requiring the occupier to vacate house S. 68(1) amended by Nos 26/1987 ss 11(2), 21, 20/1996 s. 8(1)(a)–(c). (1) Where a direction has been made under section 66 (or any corresponding previous enactment), the Council may serve a notice in writing on the occupier (if any) of the house to which the direction relates and affix a copy of the notice to that house requiring, as on and from a specified date (being a date not less than fourteen days after the service of that notice) [[14]](#endnote-15)— (a) that house to be and to remain unoccupied; or (b) the occupier of that house to vacate that house— unless (in the case where the direction has required that house to be made to comply with the regulations in whole or part) that house is to the satisfaction of the Council made to comply with the regulations in whole or as to such part before that specified date. S. 68(2) amended by Nos 26/1987 s. 11(2), 20/1996 s. 8(2)(a)(b). (2) Every person who after the expiration of the period specified in any notice served under subsection (1) inhabits or occupies the house to which that notice relates or permits or authorizes any person to inhabit or occupy that house shall, unless the Council has issued a certificate of clearance in writing certifying that the house has been made to comply with the regulations or revoked the declaration to which the notice applies under section 68A, be guilty of an offence. S. 68A inserted by No. 20/1996 s. 9.