19 Admission to housing list.S
(1)In considering whether an applicant for local authority housing is entitled to be admitted to a housing list, a local authority shall take no account of—
(a)the age of the applicant provided that he has attained the age of 16 years; or
(b)the income of the applicant and his family; or
(c)whether, or to what value, the applicant or any of his family owns or has owned (or any of them own or have owned) heritable or moveable property; or
(d)any outstanding liability (for payment of rent or otherwise) attributable to the tenancy of any house of which the applicant is not, and was not when the liability accrued, a tenant; or
(e)whether the applicant is living with, or in the same house as—
(i)his spouse; or
(ii)a person with whom he has been living as husband and wife.
(2)Where an applicant—
(a)is employed in the area of the local authority; or
(b)has been offered employment in the area of the local authority; or
(c)wishes to move into the area of the local authority and the local authority is satisfied that his purpose in doing so is to seek employment; or
(d)has attained the age of 60 years and wishes to move into the area of the local authority to be near a younger relative; or
(e)has special social or medical reasons for requiring to be housed within the area of the local authority,
admission to a housing list shall not depend on the applicant being resident in the area.
(3)[Where the rules made by a local authority under section 21(1)] give priority to applicants on its housing list it shall apply those rules to an applicant to whom subsection (2) above applies no less favourably than it applies them to a tenant of the local authority whose housing needs are similar to those of the applicant and who is seeking a transfer to another house belonging to the local authority.
(4)In this section and in section 21 of this Act, “housing list” means a list of applicants for local authority housing which is kept by a local authority in connection with the allocation of housing.