Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993

155 Rules relating to housing list

(1) For subsection (1) of section 21 of the 1987 Act (publication of rules relating to the housing list) there shall be substituted the following subsection—

“(1) It shall be the duty—

(a) of every local authority to make and to publish in accordance with subsection (4), and again within 6 months of any alteration thereof, rules governing—

(i) the admission of applicants to any housing list;

(ii) the priority of allocation of houses;

(iii) the transfer of tenants from houses owned by the landlord to houses owned by other bodies;

(iv) exchanges of houses;

(b) of Scottish Homes and development corporations (including urban development corporations) to publish in accordance with subsection (4), and again within 6 months of any alteration thereof, any rules they may have governing the matters set out in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iv) of paragraph (a) above.”

(2) In subsection (3) of section 19 of that Act (admission to housing list) for the words “Where a local authority has rules which” there shall be substituted the words “Where the rules made by a local authority under section 21(1)”.