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(b) access to the protected information or personal items.
(3) A direction may be conditional.
(4) If the director general gives a care entity a direction, the care entity must comply with the direction.
(5) If the direction is subject to a condition about the access to be given, the care entity must comply with the condition.
(6) This section is subject to division 15.5.4 (Entitlement to personal items and access to personal information).
Note Div 15.5.4 applies to young people who have left out of home care.
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Clause 8
Proposed new part 15.5, new section 529J (3A)
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(3A) However, if the director general provides financial assistance in the form of a loan to a young person or young adult, no interest is to be payable on the loan.
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Clause 8
Proposed new part 15.5, new division 15.5.4
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Division 15.5.4 Entitlement to personal items and access to protected information
529K Entitlement to personal items
A young person, or young adult, who has left out of home care is entitled to have and keep, free of charge, all of the young person’s or young adult’s personal items that are held by—
(a) the director general; or
(b) an out of home carer for the young person or young adult.
Note Some out of home carers are required to keep personal items during placements (see div 15.4.3).
529L Access to protected information—young person
(1) This section applies if a young person who has left out of home care asks for access to protected information about the young person that is held by—
(a) the director general; or
(b) an out of home carer for the young person.
Note 1 Protected information—see s 844.
Note 2 Some out of home carers are required to keep protected information (see div 15.4.3).
(2) The director general may, if satisfied on reasonable grounds that it is in the young person’s best interests—
(a) give the young person access, free of charge, to the protected information held by the director general; and
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