South Australia
Mutual Recognition (South Australia) Act 1993
An Act to enable the recognition of regulatory standards throughout Australia regarding goods and occupations, and for that purpose, to adopt the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth (and any amendments made to it before this Act commences) as a law of the State.

Contents
1	Short title
3	Interpretation
4	Adoption of Commonwealth Act
4A	Termination of adoption
4B	Power to require evidence for purposes of Mutual Recognition laws
5	Regulations for temporary exemptions for goods
Legislative history

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Mutual Recognition (South Australia) Act 1993.
3—Interpretation
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—
the Commonwealth Act means the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.
4—Adoption of Commonwealth Act
	(1)	The Commonwealth Act as originally enacted, together with any amendments made to that Act before the enactment of this Act, is adopted under paragraph (xxxvii) of section 51 of the Commonwealth Constitution.
	(2)	Without limiting subsection (1), the provisions of the Commonwealth Act, as inserted, substituted or amended by the Mutual Recognition Amendment Act 2021 of the Commonwealth, are, on and from the commencement of this subsection, also adopted under paragraph (xxxvii) of section 51 of the Commonwealth Constitution.
	(3)	Despite any other provision of this section, the adoption under this Act terminates at the end of the day fixed under section 4A as the day on which the adoption is to terminate.
4A—Termination of adoption
	(1)	The Governor may, at any time, by proclamation, fix a day as the day on which the adoption under this Act is to terminate.
	(2)	The Governor may, by proclamation, revoke a proclamation published under subsection (1), in which case the revoked proclamation is taken, for the purposes of this Act, never to have been published.
	(3)	A revoking proclamation has effect only if published before the day fixed under subsection (1).
	(4)	The revocation of a proclamation published under subsection (2) does not prevent publication of a further proclamation under that subsection.
4B—Power to require evidence for purposes of Mutual Recognition laws
	(1)	The local registration authority in this State for an occupation that covers an activity may require a person who is applying for or holds any licence, permit, certificate, registration or other form of qualification or authorisation required by or under law to carry on the activity to provide evidence of one or more of the following:
	(a)	the person's current place of residence;
	(b)	the person's principal place of residence;
	(c)	the person's current place of work;
	(d)	the person's principal place of work.
	(2)	A person who—
	(a)	without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails to provide evidence required under this section within the period required by the local registration authority (which must be reasonable); or
	(b)	provides false or misleading information in response to a requirement under this section,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $2 500.
	(3)	All terms used in subsection (1) have the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Act.
5—Regulations for temporary exemptions for goods
Without limiting any other power to make regulations under any other Act, the Governor may make regulations for the purposes mentioned in section 15 of the Commonwealth Act.

Legislative history
Notes
	•	Please note—References in the legislation to other legislation or instruments or to titles of bodies or offices are not automatically updated as part of the program for the revision and publication of legislation and therefore may be obsolete.
	•	Earlier versions of this Act (historical versions) are listed at the end of the legislative history.
	•	For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or www.legislation.sa.gov.au.
Principal Act and amendments
New entries appear in bold.
Year	No	Title	Assent	Commencement	
1993	72	Mutual Recognition (South Australia) Act 1993	16.9.1993	1.10.1993 (Gazette 30.9.1993 p1340)	
1998	1	Mutual Recognition (South Australia) (Extension of Operation) Amendment Act 1998	26.2.1998	26.2.1998	
1999	35	Mutual Recognition (South Australia) (Continuation) Amendment Act 1999	24.6.1999	24.6.1999	
2021	54	Mutual Recognition (South Australia) (Further Adoption) Amendment Act 2021	9.12.2021	20.12.2021 (Gazette 16.12.2021 p4402)	
Provisions amended
New entries appear in bold.
Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.
Provision	How varied	Commencement	
s 2	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002		
s 4			
s 4(2)	amended by 1/1998 s 2	26.2.1998	
	deleted by 35/1999 s 2	24.6.1999	
	inserted by 54/2021 s 4	20.12.2021	
s 4(3)	inserted by 54/2021 s 4	20.12.2021	
ss 4A and 4B	inserted by 54/2021 s 5	20.12.2021	
s 6	deleted by 35/1999 s 3	24.6.1999	
Historical versions
Reprint No 1—26.2.1998		
24.6.1999