14.—F30[(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Housing Acts 1966 to 2014, or in an allocation scheme made under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, a housing authority may—

(a) refuse to allocate, or defer the allocation of, a dwelling to which subsection (1) of the said section 22 refers, to a household where—

(i) the authority considers that any member of the household is or has been engaged in anti-social behaviour or that an allocation to that household would not be in the interest of good estate management, or

(ii) the household fails to provide information, including information relating to members residing together or proposing to reside together as part of the household, which is requested by the authority and which the authority considers necessary in connection with an allocation,

or

(b) refuse to permit a person, or defer permitting a person, to take up or resume residence or enter or be in a dwelling to which section 22(1)(a) of the said Act refers where—

(i) the authority considers that the person is or has been engaged in anti-social behaviour or that such permission would not be in the interest of good estate management, or

(ii) the tenant of the dwelling or the person concerned fails to provide information that is requested by the authority and which the authority considers necessary in connection with deciding whether to give, refuse or defer such permission.]

F31[(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in—

(a) Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 or an incremental purchase arrangement under the said Part 3,

(b) Part 4 of the said Act, F32[…]

F33[(c) Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021,]

(d) section 90 of the Housing Act 1966 (inserted by section 26 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992) or a purchase scheme under the said section 90, F34[or]

F34[(e) Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014,]

a housing authority may refuse to sell a dwelling to—

(i) in the case of an incremental purchase arrangement, an eligible household (within the meaning of Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009),

(ii) in the case of Part 4 of the said Act, a tenant,

F33[(iii) in the case of an affordable dwelling purchase arrangement under Part 2 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021, an eligible applicant within the meaning of section 4 of that Act,]

(iv) in the case of section 90 of the Housing Act 1966, a tenant, F34[or]

F34[(v) in the case of Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014, a tenant,]

where the authority considers that the said tenant or the said F33[eligible applicant or any member of the eligible applicant’s household] or of the tenant’s household, as the case may be, is or has been engaged in anti-social behaviour or that a sale to F33[that eligible applicant’s household] or tenant would not be in the interest of good estate management.]

(3) Section 90 (12) of the Housing Act, 1966 (inserted by section 26 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1992), is hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a)—