Section 106 — Housing Act 1985: Information about housing allocation.

Information about housing allocation. 106 1 A landlord authority shall publish a summary of its rules—

a for determining priority as between applicants in the allocation of its housing accommodation, and b governing cases where secure tenants or secure contract-holders wish to move (whether or not by way of exchange of dwelling-houses) to other dwelling-houses let under secure tenancies or secure contracts by that authority or another body.

2 A landlord authority shall—

a maintain a set of the rules referred to in subsection (1) and of the rules which it has laid down governing the procedure to be followed in allocating its housing accommodation, and b make them available at its principal office for inspection at all reasonable hours, without charge, by members of the public.

3 A landlord authority which is a private registered provider of social housing or a registered social landlord shall, instead of complying with paragraph (b) of sub-section (2), send a set of the rules referred to in paragraph (a) of that subsection—

a to the Relevant Authority , and b to the council of any district , Welsh county or county borough or London borough in which there are dwelling-houses let or to be let by the landlord authority under secure tenancies or secure contracts ; and a council to whom a set of rules is sent under this subsection shall make it available at its principal office for inspection at all reasonable hours, without charge, by members of the public.

4 A copy of the summary published under subsection (1) shall be given without charge, and a copy of the set of rules maintained under subsection (2) shall be given on payment of a reasonable fee, to any member of the public who asks for one.

5 At the request of a person who has applied to it for housing accommodation, a landlord authority shall make available to him, at all reasonable times and without charge, details of the particulars which he has given to the authority about himself and his family and which the authority has recorded as being relevant to his application for accommodation.

6 The provisions of this section do not apply to a landlord authority which is a local housing authority so far as they impose requirements corresponding to those to which such an authority is subject under section 168 of the Housing Act 1996 (provision of information about ... allocation schemes).