(1) The Director must establish and maintain a register of rooming houses, to be known as the Rooming House Register.
(2) The purpose of the Rooming House Register is to provide a consolidated State-wide register of information held by Councils about rooming houses—
(a) to assist the Director to monitor compliance with this Act and the regulations; and
(b) to assist Councils to monitor compliance with Part 6 of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 and regulations made under that Act to the extent that that Part and those regulations apply to rooming houses; and
(c) to promote compliance with section 142D; and
(d) to enable research into, and evaluation of, the State's rooming house sector; and
(e) to assist the public to identify registered rooming houses and the proprietors of registered rooming houses.
S. 142F inserted by No. 56/2012 s. 17.