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Finally, government Amendment 22 enables regulations to be made authorising or requiring a person to disclose the consistent identifier to a designated person so that the designated person can comply with their duty under new Section 16LB(4). The intention is that the regulations will apply to persons or agencies which hold or manage the consistent identifier on a national basis, as opposed to those who may hold or manage the identifier for a child or group of children for their own purposes. The amendment helps ensure that the person or agency has the appropriate powers or duties to share the identifier so that designated persons can comply with their duty to include the consistent identifier when they are processing information about a child, as well as alleviating concerns about sharing information and clarifying that the duty of confidence is overridden.