Section 17
Not To Provide Housing Facility
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, any of the following persons and families shall not be provided with the housing facility under this Act:
(a) A person who holds a post that is deemed as a public office under the prevailing law is retired from the office or released from the post, and his or her family,
(b) A person who receives remuneration or any other financial facility from a domestic or foreign company, corporate body, partnership, firm, and his or her family,
(c) A person who receives remuneration or any other financial facility from a domestic or foreign non-governmental organization, and his or her family,
(d) A person who is involved in trade, business or other work of income generation in the private sector, and his or her family,
(e) A person who is serving for a foreign government or international organization or institution, or receiving pension or other financial facility from it, and his or her family,
(f) A person and family who has the resident visa of a foreign country or resides permanently in a foreign country,
(g) A person and family staying upon taking anybody else’s house, land or apartment on rent for residential purpose,
(h) A person and family who does not have any housing but has movable and immovable property more than the ceiling as prescribed by the Government of Nepal,
(i) Such other person and his or her family as prescribed.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the housing facility under this Act shall not be prevented from being provided if the housing is completely destroyed as a result of disaster or for the person and his or her family who earns annual income less than that prescribed by the Government of Nepal.