South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts17—Cases where right of Crown to legal representation is restricted
(1) Where an Act
removes or restricts the right of a party to be represented in proceedings by
a legal practitioner, the State Crown or the Attorney-General, if a party to
the proceedings, may be represented by an officer or servant of the Crown (not
being a legal practitioner, an articled law clerk or a person who holds legal
qualifications under the law of this State or of any other place) authorised
to conduct the proceedings on behalf of the Crown or the Attorney-General.
(2) In any such
proceedings, a document apparently signed by a Minister of the State Crown or
the Chief Executive Officer of an agency, instrumentality, department or
administrative unit of the State Crown that appears to be an authorisation of
the kind contemplated by subsection (1) will, in the absence of proof to
the contrary, be accepted as such an authorisation.