New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1989 - SECT 7

7 Public authorities

(1) In this Act, a reference to a public authority is a reference to:

(a) a body (whether incorporated or unincorporated) established or continued for a public purpose by or under the provisions of a legislative instrument, other than:

(i) an incorporated company or association, or

(ii) a body that, under subsection (2) or (3), is not to be taken to be a public authority, or

(iii) the Legislative Council or the Legislative Assembly or a committee of either or both of those bodies, or

(iv) a Royal Commission or a Special Commission of Inquiry, or

(v) a local authority, or

(b) a body (whether incorporated or unincorporated) established for a public purpose otherwise than by or under the provisions of a legislative instrument and declared by the regulations to be a public authority, or

(c) any other body (whether incorporated or unincorporated) declared by the regulations to be a public authority, being:

(i) a body established by the Governor or by a Minister, or

(ii) an incorporated company or association over which a Minister is in a position to exercise direction or control, or

(d) the Police Service, or

(e) the Teaching Service, or

(f) a statutory State owned corporation (and its subsidiaries) as defined in the State Owned Corporations Act 1989 .

(2) An unincorporated body (being a board, council, committee, subcommittee or other body established or continued by or under the provisions of a legislative instrument for the purpose of assisting, or exercising functions connected with, an agency) shall not be taken to be a separate public authority but shall be taken to be included in the agency.

(3) The regulations may declare that a specified body is not to be taken to be a separate public authority but is to be taken to be included in a specified agency.