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

Contents
1	Short title
3	Interpretation
3A	Prescribed agency
3B	Principal officer—South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
3C	Principal officers—State First Nations Voice and Local First Nations Voices
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.
3B—Principal officer—South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
For the purposes of the definition of principal officer in section 4(1) of the Act, the Registrar of the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal is designated as principal officer of the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
3C—Principal officers—State First Nations Voice and Local First Nations Voices
	(1)	For the purposes of the definition of principal officer in section 4(1) of the Act—
	(a)	the joint presiding members of the State First Nations Voice are designated as principal officers of the State First Nations Voice; and
	(b)	the joint presiding members of a Local First Nations Voice are designated as principal officers of the Local First Nations Voice in respect of which they are joint presiding members.
	(2)	In this regulation—
Local First Nations Voice means a Local First Nations Voice established under the First Nations Voice Act 2023;
State First Nations Voice means the State First Nations Voice established under the First Nations Voice Act 2023.
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)	Flinders University;
	(b)	The University of Adelaide;
	(c)	the University of South Australia;
	(ca)	Adelaide University;
	(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
	•	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 these regulations (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.
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	
2020	39	Gazette 9.4.2020 p704	9.4.2020: r 2	
2023	30	Gazette 11.5.2023 p935	12.5.2023: r 2	
2024	93	Gazette 3.10.2024 p3860	3.10.2024: 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 3B	inserted by 39/2020 r 4	9.4.2020	
r 3C	inserted by 30/2023 r 3	12.5.2023	
r 4	varied by 10/2020 r 5	6.2.2020	
	amended by 93/2024 r 3(1), (2)	3.10.2024	
Sch 1	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002	6.2.2020	
Historical versions
6.2.2020		
9.4.2020		
12.5.2023