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

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

1—Short title
These regulations may be cited as the Health and Community Services Complaints Regulations 2005.
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)	the Housing Appeal Panel under Part 3A of the South Australian Housing Trust Act 1995 or 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)	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

Legislative history
Notes
	•	Variations of this version that are uncommenced are not incorporated into the text.
	•	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 regulations and variations
New entries appear in bold.
Year	No	Reference	Commencement	
2005	203	Gazette 22.9.2005 p3388	3.10.2005: r 2 	
2007	188	Gazette 28.6.2007 p2899	1.7.2007: r 2	
2013	10	Gazette 14.2.2013 p395	14.3.2013: 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	1.7.2007	
r 4			
r 4(1)	varied by 188/2007 r 4(1)	1.7.2007	
r 4(2)	varied by 188/2007 r 4(2)	1.7.2007	
	(c) deleted by 188/2007 r 4(2)	1.7.2007