South Australia
Freedom of Information (General) Regulations 2017
under the Freedom of Information Act 1991

Contents
1	Short title
3	Interpretation
3A	Prescribed agency
4	Prescribed bodies
5	Manner of publishing information statements
Legislative history

1—Short title
These regulations may be cited as the Freedom of Information (General) Regulations 2017.
3—Interpretation
In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
Act means the Freedom of Information Act 1991.
3A—Prescribed agency
In accordance with paragraph (g) of the definition of agency in section 4(1) of the Act, each of the following is declared to be an agency for the purposes of the Act:
	(a)	a joint planning board established under the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016;
	(b)	a subsidiary of a joint planning board established under the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016.
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:
	(a)	The Flinders University of South Australia;
	(b)	The University of Adelaide;
	(c)	the University of South Australia;
	(d)	a joint planning board or a subsidiary of a joint planning board established under the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016.
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 1 or both of the following ways:
	(a)	in the annual report of the agency;
	(b)	on a website maintained by the agency.

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 www.legislation.sa.gov.au.
Legislation revoked by principal regulations
The Freedom of Information (General) Regulations 2017 revoked the following:
Freedom of Information (General) Regulations 2002
Principal regulations and variations
New entries appear in bold.
Year	No	Reference	Commencement	
2017	253	Gazette 15.8.2017 p3605 	15.8.2017: r 2	
2020	10	Gazette 6.2.2020 p223	6.2.2020: r 2	
Provisions varied
New entries appear in bold.
Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.
Provision	How varied	Commencement	
r 2	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002	6.2.2020	
r 3A	inserted by 10/2020 r 4	6.2.2020	
r 4	varied by 10/2020 r 5	6.2.2020	
Sch 1	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002	6.2.2020