Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 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 or her 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.