South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts5—Proceedings by and against the Crown generally
(1) Subject to this
Act and any other Act of the State, the Judiciary Act 1903 of the
Commonwealth, and any relevant rules of court—
(a)
proceedings may be brought and conducted by or against the Crown in the same
way as proceedings between subjects; and
(b) the
same substantive law is to be applied in such proceedings as in the case of
proceedings between subjects.
(2) Subject to the
regulations, proceedings may be brought by or against the Crown—
(a) in
the case of the State Crown—under the name "The State of South
Australia";
(b) in
any other case—under the name in which the Crown could sue or be sued in
the courts of its own jurisdiction.