South Australia
Health and Community Services Complaints Regulations 2005
under the Health and Community Services Complaints Act 2004

Contents
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Interpretation
4	Exclusion from the definition of community service
5	Warrant
6	Service
Schedule 1—Warrant

1—Short title
These regulations may be cited as the Health and Community Services Complaints Regulations 2005.
2—Commencement
These regulations will come into operation on the day on which Part 4 of the Health and Community Services Complaints Act 2004 comes into operation.
3—Interpretation
In these regulations—
Act means the Health and Community Services Complaints Act 2004.
4—Exclusion from the definition of community service
	(1)	For the purposes of the definition of community service in section 4 of the Act, services provided by a prescribed housing entity are excluded from the ambit of that definition if a person who uses or seeks to use the relevant service is able to obtain a review of a decision by the prescribed housing authority with respect to the provision of the service by bringing an action before—
	(a)	the Residential Tenancies Tribunal; or
	(b)	the Public Housing Appeal Unit within the Department for Families and Communities; or
	(c)	a relevant appeal authority under Part 11 of the South Australian Co-operative and Community Housing Act 1991.
	(2)	For the purposes of subregulation (1) prescribed housing entity means—
	(a)	South Australian Housing Trust;
	(b)	South Australian Aboriginal Housing Authority;
	(c)	South Australian Community Housing Authority, or a housing association or housing co-operative registered under the South Australian Co-operative and Community Housing Act 1991.
5—Warrant
The prescribed form for a warrant under section 49 of the Act is set out in Form 1 of Schedule 1.
6—Service
	(1)	A notice or document required or authorised by or under the Act to be given to or served on a person may—
	(a)	be given to the person personally; or
	(b)	be posted in an envelope addressed to the person at the person's last known nominated contact, residential, business or (in the case of a corporation) registered address; or
	(c)	be left for the person at the person's last known nominated contact, residential, business or (in the case of a corporation) registered address with someone apparently over the age of 16 years; or
	(d)	be transmitted by facsimile transmission or electronic mail to a facsimile number or electronic mail address provided by the person.
	(2)	Without limiting the effect of subregulation (1), a notice or other document required or authorised to be given or sent to, or served on, a person for the purposes of this Act may, if the person is a company or registered body within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, be served on the person in accordance with that Act.

Schedule 1—Warrant

Note—
As required by section 10AA(2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1978, the Minister has certified that, in the Minister's opinion, it is necessary or appropriate that these regulations come into operation as set out in these regulations.
Made by the Governor
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
on 22 September 2005
No 203 of 2005
HEACS/05/040