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(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 a local authority has rules which 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.
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