167 Allocation in accordance with allocation scheme[: Wales]
Housing Act 1996 (1996 c 52) | Legislation

167  Allocation in accordance with allocation scheme[: Wales]

(1)     Every local housing authority [in Wales] shall have a scheme (their “allocation scheme”) for determining priorities, and as to the procedure to be followed, in allocating housing accommodation.

For this purpose “procedure” includes all aspects of the allocation process, including the persons or descriptions of persons by whom decisions are to be taken.

[(1A)     The scheme shall include a statement of the authority's policy on offering people who are to be allocated housing accommodation—

(a)     a choice of housing accommodation; or

(b)     the opportunity to express preferences about the housing accommodation to be allocated to them.]

[(2)     As regards priorities, the scheme shall[, subject to subsection (2ZA),] be framed so as to secure that reasonable preference is given to—

(a)     people who are homeless [(within the meaning of Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014)];

[(b)     people who are owed any duty by a local housing authority under section 66, 73 or 75 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014;]

(c)     people occupying insanitary or overcrowded housing or otherwise living in unsatisfactory housing conditions;

(d)     people who need to move on medical or welfare grounds [(including grounds relating to a disability)];

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