(1) The Minister may establish a database comprising all of the information provided to the Minister under section 25.

(2) The Minister may establish an information system for any or all of the following purposes:

(a) enabling a public service body to access information held on the database referred to in subsection (1);

(b) facilitating the calculation of the entitlement or liability of a person under the Act of 2012;

(c) administering entitlements and liabilities under the Act of 2012.

(3) Where an information system referred to in subsection (2) is established, a public service body shall establish and maintain a connection between that information system and an information system under the control of the public service body in order to facilitate -

(a) the transfer, from that public service body to the Minister, of information requested under section 25, and