VIC: Residential Tenancies Act Section 142E Establishment of Rooming House Register

Establishment of Rooming House Register

(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.