Freedom of Information (General) Regulations 2002 (SA)

South Australia

Freedom of Information (General) Regulations 2002

under the Freedom of Information Act 1991

Contents

1            Short title

2            Commencement

3            Interpretation

4            Prescribed bodies

5            Manner of publishing information statements

6            Documents affecting personal affairs—prescribed period

Legislative history

1—Short title

These regulations may be cited as the Freedom of Information (General) Regulations 2002.

2—Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which they are made.

3—Interpretation

In these regulations—

Act means the Freedom of Information Act 1991.

4—Prescribed bodies

For the purposes of the definition of State Government agency in section 4(1) of the Act, the following bodies are prescribed as bodies that are not State Government agencies:

The Flinders University of South Australia;

The University of Adelaide;

the University of South Australia.

5—Manner of publishing information statements

For the purposes of section 9(1) and (1a) of the Act, an information statement relating to an agency must be published in one or both of the following ways:

(a)in the annual report of the agency;

(b)at a website maintained by the agency.

6—Documents affecting personal affairs—prescribed period

Pursuant to clause 6(4) of Schedule 1 of the Act, a document that is an exempt document under clause 6 of that Schedule and that relates to or was created for the purpose or in the course of the investigation by police into the death of Dr George Duncan at Adelaide in May 1972 ceases to be so exempt on the expiration of 40 years from the date on which the document came into existence.

Legislative history

Notes

•For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or of regulations

The Freedom of Information (General) Regulations 2002 were revoked by Sch 1 cl 1 of the Freedom of Information (General) Regulations 2017 on 15.8.2017.

Principal regulations and variations

Year	No	Reference	Commencement
2002	144	Gazette 11.7.2002 p2871	11.7.2002: r 2
2002	146	Gazette 18.7.2002 p2912	18.7.2002: r 2

Provisions varied

Provision	How varied	Commencement
r 6	inserted by 146/2002 r 3	18.7.2002