South Australian Current Regulations South Australian Current Regulations (1) The Registrar may,
in accordance with any requirements set out in the guidelines, classify
specified information as protected information.
(2) If the central
assessment unit makes a decision under the Act to prohibit a person from
working with children on the basis of information that is classified by the
Registrar as protected information, the central assessment unit is not
required to provide any grounds or reasons for the decision other than that it
would be contrary to the public interest to allow the person to work with
children.
(3) In any proceedings
under this Act, the court determining the proceedings—
(a)
must, on the application of the Registrar, take steps to maintain the
confidentiality of information classified by the Registrar as protected
information, including steps to receive evidence and hear argument about the
information in private in the absence of the parties to the proceedings and
their representatives; and
(b) may
take evidence consisting of, or relating to, information that is so classified
by the Registrar by way of affidavit.