Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 No. 3 of 1982 - SECT 5

5. For the purposes of this Act -

   (a)  a court shall be deemed to be a prescribed authority;

   (b)  the holder of a judicial office or other office pertaining to a court
        in his capacity as the holder of that office, being an office
        established by the legislation establishing the court, shall be deemed
        not to be a prescribed authority and shall not be included in a
        Department; and

   (c)  a registry or other office of a court, and the staff of such a
        registry or other office when acting in a capacity as members of that
        staff, shall be taken as a part of the court, but this Act does not
        apply to any request for access to a document of the court unless the
        document relates to matters of an administrative nature.