Victorian Numbered Acts

ROOMING HOUSE OPERATORS ACT 2016 (NO. 26 OF 2016) - SECT 43

    (1)     The Licensing Registrar must establish and keep a register to be called the Register of Licensed Rooming House Operators.

    (2)     The purposes of the Register are—

        (a)     to record information about licensees and other persons regulated by this Act; and

        (b)     to record information about applications for licences and for renewal of licences, including applications that were refused; and

        (c)     to record information about licences that were cancelled by VCAT and any conditions imposed on licences; and

        (d)     to record decisions and determinations made, and permissions granted, by the Authority under this Act; and

        (e)     subject to section 17A of the Business Licensing Authority Act 1998 , to make the information collected for the purposes of the Register available to the public; and

        (f)     to enable the Director and the Authority to provide information to licensees and other persons affected by this Act.

    (3)     The Licensing Registrar must record in the Register the following information in respect of each licensee—

        (a)     the licensee's full name and licence number;

        (b)     the residential address of the licensee, in the case of a natural person;

        (c)     the address of the registered office of the licensee, in the case of a body corporate;

        (d)     the licensee's ABN or ACN, if applicable;

        (e)     the date on which the licence was granted or renewal of the licence was granted and the expiry date of the licence;

        (f)     if applicable, the date on which the licence was cancelled;

        (g)     details of any condition to which the licence is subject;

        (h)     details of any court order or VCAT order affecting the licence of which the Authority has notice;

              (i)     if the licensee is a body corporate, the name of each officer of the body corporate;

        (j)     if the licensee has one or more rooming houses in relation to which a manager is employed or engaged or proposed to be employed or engaged, the name of each manager;

        (k)     any other prescribed matter.

    (4)     A person may search and take a copy of an extract from, or a copy of, the Register on payment of the prescribed fee (if any).

    (5)     A person may obtain a certified extract from, or a certified copy of, the Register on the payment of the prescribed fee (if any).

    (6)     Subject to section 17A of the Business Licensing Authority Act 1998 , the Licensing Registrar may keep and publish the Register in any form that the Licensing Registrar thinks fit.