South Australian Consolidated Acts

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CO-OPERATIVE AND COMMUNITY HOUSING ACT 1991 - SECT 21

21—Registers and inspection

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act, the Minister must keep, or cause to be kept, in such form as the Minister considers appropriate—

            (a)         a register of housing co-operatives registered under this Act; and

            (ab)         a register of housing associations registered under this Act; and

            (b)         such other registers as the Minister considers appropriate.

        (2)         Subject to the regulations, a person may, on payment of the prescribed fee—

            (a)         inspect a register under this Act; or

            (b)         inspect any document registered by, or filed or lodged with, the Minister under this Act; or

            (c)         obtain from the Minister—

                  (i)         a certified copy of, or extract from, an entry in a register kept under this Act; or

                  (ii)         a certified copy of a certificate of incorporation issued under this Act; or

                  (iii)         a certified copy of, or extract from, any document registered by, or filed or lodged with, the Minister under this Act.

        (3)         If the Minister adopts a system of record keeping that involves the making or reproductions or transparencies of certificates or other documents—

            (a)         the Minister cannot be required to produce the document from which the reproduction or transparency was made; and

            (b)         any such reproduction or transparency is equivalent to an original; and

            (c)         a copy produced from the reproduction or transparency is to be regarded as a copy of the original.