South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts56—Certain documents may be transmitted by electric telegraph under
restriction
(1) The Governor, any
Minister of the Crown, the President of the Legislative Council, the Speaker
of the House of Assembly, a Judge of the Supreme Court, a Local Court Judge,
or District Criminal Court Judge, the Judge in Insolvency, any special
magistrate, and any principal officer of Government, or solicitor, may cause
to be transmitted by electric telegraph the contents of any writ, warrant,
rule, order, authority, or other communication requiring signature or seal
subject to the provisions following, that is to say—
(a) the
original document shall be delivered at the telegraph station in the presence
and under the inspection of some justice of the peace or notary public;
(b) the
person to whom the contents of any such document shall be so sent shall,
forthwith and in the presence and under the supervision of a justice of the
peace or notary public, cause to be sent back by electric telegraph, a copy of
the message received by him; and in the event of any error appearing therein,
the process shall be repeated under the like supervision, until it appears
that a true copy of such document has been received by the person to whom it
has been sent;
(c) when
it appears that such true copy has been so received, such first-mentioned
justice, or notary public, shall endorse upon the original document a
certificate that a true copy thereof has been sent, under the provisions of
this Act, to the person to whom the same has been so sent; and shall
forthwith, by electric telegraph, inform such person that such certificate has
been so endorsed;
(d) the
person so receiving such true copy shall, upon receiving information of such
certificate, endorse upon the copy of the original document received by him a
certificate that the same has been duly received, under the provisions of this
Act, which certificate shall be signed by him and by the justice or notary
public so supervising the receipt of such copy as hereinbefore provided.
(2) In this
section—
"any principal officer of Government" includes the Auditor-General, the Under
Secretary, the Under Treasurer, the Solicitor-General, the Crown Solicitor,
the Director of Public Prosecutions and the secretary to any department
presided over by a Minister of the Crown, the Clerk of the Legislative
Council, the Clerk of the House of Assembly, the Surveyor-General, the
Registrar-General, the Sheriff, the Master of the Supreme Court, the
Commissioner of Police, inspectors of police, the Returning Officer for the
State; and for the purposes of returns to writs of election, but not
otherwise, also includes any returning officer or deputy returning officer of
an electoral district.