New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HOUSING ACT 2001 - SECT 69B

69B Access to information for preventing, investigating or prosecuting fraud

(1) For the purposes of preventing or investigating fraud against the Corporation, or prosecuting a person for any such fraud, the Corporation may request, collect, use and disclose information from any one or more of the following registers:

(a) a driver licence register within the meaning of the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 ,

(b) the Register within the meaning of the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 ,

(c) the Register within the meaning of the Business Names Act 2002 ,

(d) the Register maintained under section 31B of the Real Property Act 1900 ,

(e) the Register of Interests in Goods maintained under section 4 of the Registration of Interests in Goods Act 1986 ,

(f) any register maintained under the Maritime Services Act 1935 or the Marine Safety Act 1998 with respect to registrable vessels.

(2) A person or body who maintains a register referred to in subsection (1) is, on receipt of a written request from the Corporation, to disclose to the Corporation any information held on the register that relates to the person or property in respect of which the request is made.

(3) The Corporation may, in relation to a request under this section for information about a person or property, disclose information about that person or property to the person or body to whom the request is being made.

(4) In this section, "information" includes personal information within the meaning of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 .