VIC: Residential Tenancies Act Section 142KA Restriction on access to address of rooming house

Restriction on access to address of rooming house

(1) An applicant for the issue, renewal or transfer of a registration of a rooming house under section 71 of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 or the proprietor of a registered rooming house may apply to the Director to restrict public access to information under this Division concerning the address of the rooming house.

(2) On an application under subsection (1), the Director may restrict public access to some or all of that information if the Director is satisfied that exceptional circumstances exist justifying the restriction of public access to that information.

(3) The Director may restrict public access under subsection (2) for the period, and on the conditions, that the Director thinks fit.

(4) In making a decision under this section, the Director must have regard to the purpose for which the Rooming House Register was established.

(5) If the Director is satisfied that it is in the public interest that information restricted under this section be released to a person who applies for the release of that information, the Director may release some or all of the information to that person on any conditions that the Director thinks fit.

(6) If the Director decides to release restricted information under subsection (5), the Director must give written notice of that decision to the applicant.

(7) The Director must not release information restricted under this section without the consent of the applicant unless—

(a) at least 28 days have passed since the Director gave written notice under subsection (6) of the decision to release the information; and

(b) either—

(i) the applicant has not applied to the Tribunal for a review of the decision; or

(ii) the Tribunal has upheld the Director's decision to release the restricted information.