(1) The Licensing Registrar must establish and maintain a register to be called the Register of Professional Engineers.
(2) The purposes of the Register are—
(a) to record information about registered professional engineers and publish certain information; and
(b) to record information about applications for registration and endorsement of registration and for renewal of registration and endorsement of registration, including applications that were refused; and
(c) to record information about registration or endorsements of registration that were cancelled by VCAT and any conditions imposed on registrations or endorsements; and
(d) to record decisions and determinations made by the Business Licensing 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, the Business Licensing Authority and the Victorian Building Authority to provide information to registered professional engineers and other persons affected by this Act.
(3) The Licensing Registrar must record in the Register the following information in respect of each registered professional engineer—
(a) the engineer's full name and registration number;
(b) the address for service of the engineer;
(c) the areas of engineering in respect of which the engineer is registered;
(d) whether there is an endorsement on the registration;
(e) the date on which the application for registration and endorsement of the registration (if any) was granted;
(f) the date on which an application for renewal of the registration and endorsement of the registration (if any) was granted;
(g) the expiry date of the registration and endorsement of the registration (if any);
(h) if applicable, the date on which the registration or endorsement of the registration was cancelled;
(i) details of any condition to which the registration and endorsement of the registration (if any) is subject;
(j) details of any court order or VCAT order affecting the registration and endorsement of the registration (if any) of which the Business Licensing Authority has notice;
(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.