{"id":"sr:service-victoria-transfer-miscellaneous-licensing-and-registration","name":"Service Victoria (Transfer of Miscellaneous Licensing and Registration Identity Verification Functions) Regulations 2022","slug":"service-victoria-transfer-of-miscellaneous-licensing-and-registration-identity-verification-function","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"vic","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":185855,"registerId":"vic-sr:service-victoria-transfer-miscellaneous-licensing-and-registration-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Service Victoria (Transfer of Miscellaneous Licensing and Registration Identity Verification Functions) Regulations 2022","content":"Version No. 002\n\n**Service Victoria (Transfer of Miscellaneous Licensing and Registration Identity Verification Functions) Regulations 2022**\n\n**S.R. No. 27/2022**\n\nVersion incorporating amendments as at  \n29 May 2024\n\n**TABLE OF PROVISIONS**\n\n*Regulation Page*\n\n1 Objective 1\n\n2 Authorising provision 1\n\n3 Commencement 1\n\n4 Definitions 1\n\n5 Transferred identity verification functions 2\n\nSchedule 1—Transferred identity verification functions 3\n\n═════════════\n\nEndnotes 8\n\n1 General information 8\n\n2 Table of Amendments 10\n\n3 Explanatory details 11\n\n**Version No.** **002**\n\n**Service Victoria (Transfer of Miscellaneous Licensing and Registration Identity Verification Functions) Regulations 2022**\n\n**S.R. No. 27/2022**\n\nVersion incorporating amendments as at  \n29 May 2024\n\nReg. 1 substituted by S.R. No. 38/2024 reg. 24.\n\n\t1 Objective\n\nThe objective of these Regulations is to prescribe identity verification functions that are transferred to the Service Victoria CEO under the **Service Victoria Act 2018**.\n\n\t2 Authorising provision\n\nThese Regulations are made under section 58 of the **Service Victoria Act 2018**.\n\n\t3 Commencement\n\nThese Regulations come into operation on 12 May 2022.\n\n\t4 Definitions\n\nIn these Regulations—\n\n***Business Licensing Authority***  has the same meaning as ***Authority*** has in the **Business Licensing Authority Act 1998**;\n\n***mobile application*** means a software application designed for use on a personal electronic device such as a mobile phone or a handheld computing device;\n\n***the Act*** means the **Service Victoria Act 2018**.\n\n\t5 Transferred identity verification functions\n\nFor the purposes of section 10(5) of the Act, an identity verification function set out in the table in Schedule 1 is a transferred identity verification function.\n\n**Note**\n\nA transferred identity verification function is to be performed by the Service Victoria CEO as a transferred identity verification function (see section 10(5) of the Act) from the commencement date set out in regulation 3.\n\nReg. 6 revoked by S.R. No. 38/2024 reg. 25.\n\n* * * * *\n\nSchedule 1—Transferred identity verification functions\n\nRegulation 5\n\n| *Column 1*<br>*Item number* | *Column 2*<br>*Transferred identity verification function* | *Column 3*<br>*Service agency from which function is transferred* |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Collecting identity information provided with an application by a natural person for a licence or renewal of a licence to operate a rooming house under section 11 of the **Rooming House Operators Act 2016**,  and verifying the applicant's identity, if the application is made by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 2 | Requesting and collecting identity information for the purposes of sections 15(1)(c), 16, 17 and 18 of the **Rooming House Operators Act 2016**, and verifying the applicant's identity, if the applicant is a natural person and the information is collected by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 3 | Collecting identity information provided with an application by a natural person for an estate agent's licence under section 17 of the **Estate Agents Act 1980**,  and verifying the applicant's identity, if the application is made by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n|  |  |  |\n| 4 | Collecting identity information provided with an application by a natural person for an estate agent's licence under section 31C of the **Estate Agents Act 1980**,  and verifying the applicant's identity, if the application is made by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 5 | Collecting identity information for the purposes of section 14(5)(e) or 21(4)(b) of the **Estate Agents Act 1980**, and verifying the applicant's identity, if the information is collected by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 6 | Collecting identity information provided with an application by a natural person for registration as a manager of an owners corporation under sections 180 and 181 of the **Owners Corporations Act 2006**,  and verifying the applicant's identity, if the application is made by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 7 | Collecting identity information for the purposes of section 179(d) of the **Owners Corporations Act 2006**, and verifying the applicant's identity, if the applicant is a natural person and the information is collected by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 8 | Collecting identity information for the purposes of section 182A of the **Owners Corporations Act 2006**, and verifying the applicant's identity, if the applicant is a natural person and the information is collected by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 9 | Collecting identity information provided with an application for a licence to carry on a conveyancing business under section 13 of the **Conveyancers Act 2006**, and verifying the applicant's identity, if the applicant is a natural person and the application is made by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 10 | Collecting identity information for the purposes of section 11(1)(c) of the **Conveyancers Act 2006** (in relation to disqualified persons under section 5(i) of that Act), and verifying the applicant's identity, if the information is collected by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 11 | Collecting identity information provided with an application for a licence to carry on a conveyancing business under section 30 of the **Conveyancers Act 2006**,  and verifying the applicant's identity, if the application is made by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n| 12 | Collecting identity information for the purposes of section 30 of the **Conveyancers Act 2006**, and verifying the applicant's identity, if the information is collected by input into an Internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose. | Business Licensing Authority |\n\n\nSch. 2 revoked by S.R. No. 38/2024 reg. 26.\n\n* * * * *\n\n═════════════\n\nEndnotes\n\n1 General information\n\nSee [www.legislation.vic.gov.au](http://www.legislation.vic.gov.au) for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.\n\nThe Service Victoria (Transfer of Miscellaneous Licensing and Registration Identity Verification Functions) Regulations 2022, S.R. No. 27/2022 were made on 10 May 2022 by the Governor in Council under section 58 of the **Service Victoria Act 2018**, No. 14/2018 and came into operation on 12 May 2022: regulation 3.\n\nThe Service Victoria (Transfer of Miscellaneous Licensing and Registration Identity Verification Functions) Regulations 2022 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 10 May 2032 (see section 5 of the **Subordinate Legislation Act 1994**).\n\nINTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)\n\nStyle changes\n\nSection 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.\n\nReferences to ILA s. 39B\n\nSidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression \"(1)\" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.\n\nInterpretation\n\nAs from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:\n\n• Headings\n\nAll headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after  \n1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.  \nThis includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms.  \nSee section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).\n\n• Examples, diagrams or notes\n\nAll examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule. See section 36(3A).\n\n• Punctuation\n\nAll punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after  \n1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule. Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.  \nSee section 36(3B).\n\n• Provision numbers\n\nAll provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after  \n1 January 2001. Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).\n\n• Location of \"legislative items\"\n\nA \"legislative item\" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.\n\n• Other material\n\nAny explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule. See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).\n\n2 Table of Amendments\n\nThis publication incorporates amendments made to the Service Victoria (Transfer of Miscellaneous Licensing and Registration Identity Verification Functions) Regulations 2022 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.\n\n–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––\n\nService Victoria (Miscellaneous) Amendment Regulations 2024, S.R. No. 38/2024\n\n| *Date of Making:* | 28.5.24 |\n| --- | --- |\n| *Date of Commencement:* | Regs 24–26 on 29.5.24: reg. 3 |\n\n\n–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––\n\n3 Explanatory details\n\nNo entries at date of publication.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument continues to transfer the same listed online identity‑verification functions to the Service Victoria CEO (reg 5; Schedule 1). Amendments recorded (substitution of reg 1 and revocation of reg 6 and Sch 2 by S.R. No. 38/2024) are present in the consolidated version but do not materially alter the Schedule 1 list of transferred functions as published."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, technical scope — lists discrete functions to transfer rather than broad powers (reg 5; Schedule 1).","Multiple cross-references to other Acts and specific provisions (Rooming House Operators Act 2016; Estate Agents Act 1980; Owners Corporations Act 2006; Conveyancers Act 2006), requiring familiarity with those regimes to see practical effect.","Conditional trigger tied to delivery channel: functions apply only where identity information is provided via an internet site or mobile application maintained for that purpose (Schedule 1), adding an operational threshold.","Administrative implementation requirements: centralised online/mobile verification capability, data handling and IT integration between Service Victoria and the Business Licensing Authority are necessary (inferred from transfer of online functions).","Statutory formality and lifecycle constraints — made under Service Victoria Act s58 (reg 2), commenced 12 May 2022 (reg 3) and subject to amendment history and revocations noted in the Table of Amendments and Endnotes (S.R. No. 38/2024)."],"plain_english_summary":"These Regulations transfer specific online identity‑verification tasks from the Business Licensing Authority to the Service Victoria CEO so Service Victoria will verify identities for certain licence and registration applications submitted via an internet site or mobile application (reg 5; Schedule 1). The immediate effects fall on natural persons applying online and on the Business Licensing Authority as the transferring agency; administratively it centralises digital verification responsibility with Service Victoria and requires it to operate or integrate suitable online/mobile verification systems."},"summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the limited document content available, the regulation appears to do exactly what its title describes — transfer identity verification functions for miscellaneous licensing and registration to Service Victoria. There is no evidence of scope creep or deviation from original intent, though the severely truncated document prevents a definitive assessment."},"complexity_factors":["The legislation itself appears straightforward — it transfers an administrative function rather than creating new substantive rights or obligations","The source document provided is heavily truncated and repetitive, containing almost no substantive content beyond the title and version history, making full analysis impossible","Modest complexity arises from needing to understand the parent Act (Service Victoria Act 2018) to fully grasp the scope of powers being transferred","The phrase 'miscellaneous licensing and registration' is vague and requires cross-referencing other legislation to identify exactly which licences and registrations are covered"],"plain_english_summary":"The regulation moves identity checks for certain Victorian licences and registrations from individual agencies to Service Victoria, centralising verification on the government’s digital platform. It affects applicants for miscellaneous permits/registrations and the agencies that previously ran their own checks.  \n\nThis aims to simplify and standardise applications by using a single verifier, and legally authorises Service Victoria to handle personal identity information—raising practical convenience and privacy considerations."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly scoped to its original purpose. The 2024 amendments (S.R. No. 38/2024) were minor housekeeping: substituting the objective regulation, revoking regulation 6, and revoking Schedule 2. The core function — transferring specific identity verification functions to Service Victoria — has not expanded beyond the original 12 items in Schedule 1."},"complexity_factors":["Only 5 regulations (one of which was revoked)","Just 3 defined terms in the interpretation section","Single operative provision (regulation 5) referring to a straightforward table","No nested exceptions or conditional logic beyond the simple trigger 'if the application is made by input into an Internet site or mobile application'","Cross-references are limited to clear citations of enabling legislation (Service Victoria Act 2018) and specific sections of other Acts (Rooming House Operators Act 2016, Estate Agents Act 1980, etc.)","Schedule 1 is a simple 12-row table with three columns"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this does:**\nThese regulations hand over specific identity-checking jobs from the Business Licensing Authority to Service Victoria (the government agency that runs the Service Victoria app and website).\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- **People applying for licences or registrations** in Victoria for: rooming houses, estate agent licences, owners corporation manager registrations, and conveyancing businesses\n- **Service Victoria** — now handles the digital identity verification for these applications\n- **The Business Licensing Authority** — no longer handles identity verification for these specific online applications\n\n**How it works:**\nWhen someone applies online (via website or mobile app) for certain business licences, Service Victoria now collects and verifies their identity information instead of the Business Licensing Authority doing it. This covers 12 specific scenarios, including:\n- Applying for or renewing a rooming house operator's licence\n- Applying for an estate agent's licence\n- Registering as an owners corporation manager\n- Applying for a conveyancing business licence\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThis is part of a broader push to centralise government digital services. Rather than each agency building its own identity verification system, Service Victoria acts as a shared platform. For applicants, it means a more consistent experience. For government, it reduces duplication. The catch: it only applies when applications are submitted digitally through Service Victoria's platforms — paper or other electronic methods still go through the original agency."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. 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