177Council may require occupier to pay rent

177 Council may require occupier to pay rent (1) If any rate or charge is due and unpaid in relation to land, the Council may send a notice to the person who appears from the rate records of the Council to be liable to pay the rate or charge. (2) The notice must state— (a) that after 7 days from the date the notice is sent, the occupier of the land may be required by notice sent to that person to pay to the Council the rent then due or further rent as it falls due by that person for the land; and (b) that the rent must be paid to the Council until the amount of the rate or charge has been paid. (3) A payment of rent by a person under this section is a discharge of the debt for that rent and must be treated as payment of rent for the purposes of any tenancy law. (4) If a person fails to pay any or all of the rent due under this section, the Council may recover the unpaid amount as a debt due to it by that person.