to facilitate the management and granting of tenancies in social housing and in other housing to support individuals to access housing that is appropriate to their needs; to prepare reports and compile statistics in relation to the use of the Victorian Housing Register; to perform any other functions or exercise any other powers under the Principal Act; to give information that the relevant person is otherwise expressly authorised, permitted or required to give under the Principal Act. Subsection (2) provides that in addition to the purposes referred to in subsection (1), a relevant person who is also an authorised person may collect or use relevant information, or disclose relevant information to another relevant person, to the extent necessary for any of the following purposes— to establish and administer the Victorian Housing Register; to maintain the accuracy of the Victorian Housing Register. Subsection (3) provides that nothing in new section 142J affects any prohibition in any Act (other than the Principal Act, the Health Records Act 2001 and the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014) on the collection, use or disclosure of the relevant information. Clause 6 amends section 116(1) of the Principal Act so that the existing investigative powers of inspectors appointed by the Registrar of Housing Agencies may also be used to ascertain whether the provisions of new Part VIIIA relating to Social Housing (or regulations under that Part), have been complied with. Clause 7 inserts two new paragraphs (ba) and (bb) after section 130(1)(b) of the Principal Act to provide additional grounds for when the Registrar of Housing Agencies may exercise its powers in relation to a registered agency, as follows— in the case of a registered agency that is a participating registered agency, an authorised person employed or engaged by the participating registered agency fails to
to facilitate the management and granting of tenancies in social housing and in other housing to support individuals to access housing that is appropriate to their needs; to prepare reports and compile statistics in relation to the use of the Victorian Housing Register; to perform any other functions or exercise any other powers under the Principal Act; to give information that the relevant person is otherwise expressly authorised, permitted or required to give under the Principal Act. Subsection (2) provides that in addition to the purposes referred to in subsection (1), a relevant person who is also an authorised person may collect or use relevant information, or disclose relevant information to another relevant person, to the extent necessary for any of the following purposes— to establish and administer the Victorian Housing Register; to maintain the accuracy of the Victorian Housing Register. Subsection (3) provides that nothing in new section 142J affects any prohibition in any Act (other than the Principal Act, the Health Records Act 2001 and the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014) on the collection, use or disclosure of the relevant information. Clause 6 amends section 116(1) of the Principal Act so that the existing investigative powers of inspectors appointed by the Registrar of Housing Agencies may also be used to ascertain whether the provisions of new Part VIIIA relating to Social Housing (or regulations under that Part), have been complied with. Clause 7 inserts two new paragraphs (ba) and (bb) after section 130(1)(b) of the Principal Act to provide additional grounds for when the Registrar of Housing Agencies may exercise its powers in relation to a registered agency, as follows— in the case of a registered agency that is a participating registered agency, an authorised person employed or engaged by the participating registered agency fails to
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