66 Tests for fitness etc and satisfactory management arrangements

66  Tests for fitness etc and satisfactory management arrangements

(1)     In deciding for the purposes of section 64(3)(b) or (d) whether a person (“P”) is a fit and proper person to be the licence holder or (as the case may be) the manager of the house, the local housing authority must have regard (among other things) to any evidence within subsection (2) or (3).

[(1A)     A local housing authority in England must also have regard to any evidence within subsection (3A) or (3B).]

(2)     Evidence is within this subsection if it shows that P has—

(a)     committed any offence involving fraud or other dishonesty, or violence or drugs, or any offence listed in Schedule 3 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c 42) (offences attracting notification requirements);

(b)     practised unlawful discrimination on grounds of sex, colour, race, ethnic or national origins or disability in, or in connection with, the carrying

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