South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S PORTFOLIO) ACT 2013 (NO 11 OF 2013) - SECT 16

16—Amendment of section 51—Accessibility to Court records

        (1)         Section 51(2)(c)—delete "(including material furnished under section 7 of the Criminal Law (Sentencing) Act 1988 )"

        (2)         Section 51—after subsection (4) insert:

        (4a)         Despite the preceding subsections, if 100 years have passed since the end of the calendar year in which material referred to in this section became part of the Court's records—

            (a)         in the case of records that have been delivered into the custody of State Records— section 26 of the State Records Act 1997 applies (to the exclusion of this section) to the giving of access to the records; and

            (b)         in any other case—a member of the public may, without any requirement to seek permission of the Court, be given access to the records.