676.This section specifies what the regulator must do with money that it receives from fines it has imposed on registered providers. Subsection (2) provides for the regulator to deduct from that money the direct costs of administering the penalty procedure, and a share of its overall expenditure that is proportionate to the effort and resource required for administration of the penalty procedure. Subsection (3) provides that any balance remaining will be paid to the HCA to be used, at the HCA’s discretion, for investment in social housing.