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Housing Act 2001
69BAccess to information for preventing, investigating or prosecuting fraud
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#### 69B Access to information for preventing, investigating or prosecuting fraud
69B Access to information for preventing, investigating or prosecuting fraud
> > (1) For the purposes of preventing or investigating fraud against the Corporation or the Secretary, or prosecuting a person for any such fraud, the Corporation or the Secretary (as the case requires) may request, collect, use and disclose information from any one or more of the following registers—
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> > > (a) the NSW driver licence register within the meaning of the [Road Transport Act 2013](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2013-018),
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> > > (b) the NSW registrable vehicles register within the meaning of the [Road Transport Act 2013](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2013-018),
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> > > (c) (Repealed)
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> > > (d) the Register maintained under section 31B of the [Real Property Act 1900](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1900-025),
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> > > (e) (Repealed)
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> > > (f) a register under the [Marine Safety Act 1998](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1998-121).
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> > (2) A person or body who maintains a register referred to in subsection (1) is, on receipt of a written request from the Corporation or the Secretary, to disclose to the Corporation or the Secretary any information held on the register that relates to the person or property in respect of which the request is made.
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> > (3) The Corporation or the Secretary 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.
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> > (4) In this section—
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> > information includes personal information within the meaning of the [Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1998-133).
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> > registrable vessel has the same meaning as in the [Marine Safety Act 1998](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1998-121).
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> **s 69B:** Ins 2008 No 7, Sch 1 \[2\]. Am 2010 No 57, Sch 1.11; 2011 No 44, Sch 3.9; 2012 No 90, Sch 2.4; 2013 No 19, Sch 4.31; 2018 No 45, Sch 2 \[16\]–\[18\]; 2025 No 12, Sch 2.2\[1\] \[2\].