The Act fixes how long most civil claims in South Australia may be brought and sets detailed rules for when limitation periods start, stop, or can be extended, plus procedural requirements to restart or toll time. It affects claimants, defendants, insurers, trustees and publishers by shifting litigation risk toward late claimants and limiting long‑run...

This Act sets a statutory framework for discovering, claiming, exploring and mining minerals in the State, creating rights, application/registration processes, environmental approval and reporting obligations, and royalty/payment rules. It markedly affects prospectors, exploration licence and tenement holders, native title parties and regulators by shifting...

This Act creates and organises the Supreme Court of South Australia—its General Division and Court of Appeal—defining who sits in it, its jurisdiction and procedural powers, how court business and officers are managed, and how suitors' funds, fees and public access are handled. It affects judges, associate justices, registrars and court staff, litigants and...

This Act creates a consolidated code for how land and related interests are created, transferred, charged and litigated in South Australia. It standardises formalities (writing, deeds, electronic execution), implies title covenants, defines mortgagee/receiver powers and mortgagor protections, expands courts’ vesting powers and abolishes the rule against...

The Civil Liability Act 1936 (SA) consolidates South Australian tort law, setting who is liable for harm, how negligence and causation are proved, and how damages (including motor‑vehicle and non‑economic awards) are assessed and capped. It creates a distinct institutional child‑abuse regime—shifting evidentiary burdens, enabling recovery from...

Reforms how courts take and admit evidence: it creates special procedures and courtroom adjustments for vulnerable witnesses (children, cognitively impaired people, victims of family/domestic violence), enables pre‑trial special hearings and broader use of audio‑visual recordings and communication assistance, and sets presumptions for official, business and...

The Act creates and runs a Torrens style land title system: the Registrar‑General keeps a register, issues certificates of title, and registration generally makes title indefeasible. It sets procedures for bringing land under the system, registering transfers, mortgages, caveats and priority notices, and for dealing with division/amalgamation and easements....

This Act creates South Australia’s legal framework for recognising, registering and litigating native title: it sets registration rules, court procedures, mediation steps, service/negotiation processes, and a compensation route for acts that extinguish or affect native title. It centralises key functions in a Registrar and in the courts and gives registered...

This Act sets South Australian rules for trustees’ powers, duties and administration: it broadens investment freedom (subject to a profession‑sensitive care standard and annual review), gives operational powers (sale, mortgage, delegation, banking, insurance), and creates records, inspection and inspection‑enforcement regimes. It also provides Court and...

The Act creates and governs South Australia Police, making the Commissioner the day‑to‑day manager with broad operational powers over appointments, orders, discipline and testing. It sets how senior leaders are appointed and paid, provides grounds and procedures for suspension, transfer and review, and authorises drug and alcohol testing under regulated...

The Act centralises administration of South Australian Crown land under the Minister, defining land types and setting rules for leasing, sale, management, protection and remediation. It affects the Minister, Crown agencies, councils, leaseholders, waterfront users, authorised officers and courts/tribunal. It matters because it formalises market‑based...

This Act sets the regulatory framework for electricity generation, transmission, distribution and retail. It creates a Technical Regulator, preserves the Essential Services Commission’s licensing and pricing roles, and gives system controllers powers to direct plant operation and recover costs. Licensed entities and NERL retailers must meet technical,...

This Act sets the default legal rules for buying and selling goods in South Australia: how sale contracts form, when ownership and risk pass, delivery and inspection duties, and statutory remedies for non‑performance. It defines key terms and supplies default implied terms but lets parties alter allocations by agreement. Why it matters: it governs who bears...

This Act sets the rules for who may practise law in the State and how legal practices must operate: practising certificates, interstate and foreign lawyer registration, compulsory professional indemnity insurance, and management of client trust money (including a combined trust account, statutory interest account and Fidelity Fund). It affects individual...

Applies the National Electricity Law and Rules as South Australian law, binds the Crown, and gives the Governor, Ministers, AEMC, AER and AEMO powers to regulate the electricity market, including creating a State capacity scheme and making Rules and Regulations (ss6,11,15B). It sets civil‑penalty tiers, preserves transitional arrangements and old...

Provides the legal framework for protecting, managing and using wildlife and reserves in South Australia. It establishes institutions (the Minister as a corporation sole, a Parks and Wilderness Council, a Director and wardens), powers to acquire land, and enforcement tools. It authorises permit regimes for farming, harvesting and hunting, sets...

The Act modernises South Australia’s civil defamation law: it creates a single cause of action, adds a “serious‑harm” threshold, requires pre‑action notice and offers to make amends, clarifies statutory defences, caps non‑economic damages, and gives courts new digital powers (preliminary discovery; orders against intermediaries). It affects plaintiffs,...

Mechanically, this Act imposes employer obligations on record‑keeping, payslips, payment of entitlements, civil penalties for deliberate non‑payment, unfair‑dismissal procedures through the SA Employment Tribunal (SAET), and detailed leave entitlements (sick, carer’s, annual, parental, bereavement, and family and domestic violence). It affects employers and...

The Act creates a statutory framework for apportioning liability and contribution where multiple parties are legally responsible for the same civil loss. It lets courts allocate notional damages, reduce awards for claimant fault, and—for certain apportionable losses—limit some defendants’ payable share, while imposing disclosure duties and procedural rules....

This Act sets out many summary offences across topics such as indecent or extremist material, AI‑generated intimate depictions, brothels and prostitution, computer misuse, theft and weapons regulation. It creates criminal penalties, defences (often written consent or legitimate public purpose), policing and court powers (search, seizure, forfeiture) and...

This Act establishes how juries are chosen and used in indictable criminal trials in South Australia: who may serve, how lists are compiled and summonsed, empanelling and verdict rules, excusals, payments and penalties. It affects adult citizens (potential jurors), employers (wage reimbursement implications), and court bodies (sheriff, Electoral...

The Act is the rulebook for South Australian local councils: creating and changing councils, setting their powers and core functions (services, planning, finance, rates, public land and roads, by‑laws), prescribing member and staff conduct, enabling community input and complaints/oversight, and allowing state intervention where needed — with special...

This law creates a broad statutory regime banning discrimination (on grounds like sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, race, disability, age and others) across employment, education, goods/services, accommodation, superannuation and associations. It establishes an independent Commissioner to investigate, conciliate and refer matters to...

The law creates a criminal offence for making materially false representations in trade to induce contracts, payments or transfers, with higher fines for corporations, evidential presumptions of inducement, specified defences, and Attorney‑General consent for prosecutions. It also expands civil remedies: easier rescission (subject to good‑faith third‑party...

This law creates a duty based safety regime that requires businesses, officers, workers and those who design/supply/install plant or substances to eliminate or, if not possible, minimise workplace risks so far as reasonably practicable. It sets compliance processes (incident notification, inspector powers, prohibition/improvement notices, union entry...

This law creates a dedicated framework for prospecting and mining opal and other precious stones in South Australia: licensing and pegging processes, a registrar and register, land entry and notice rules, rehabilitation/bond and compensation requirements, native title negotiation pathways, and enforcement powers and penalties. It affects small scale miners...

The law centralises protection of Aboriginal heritage in the Minister (with an advisory Committee), creates a confidential central Register that legally identifies sites and objects, and requires Ministerial authorisations for excavation, disturbance, movement or sale. It affects Aboriginal people (including recognised representative bodies), landowners,...

This Act sets a detailed regulatory scheme for poisons, prescription drugs, drugs of dependence, precursors and controlled plants: it defines offences and penalties, creates licensing, permit and accreditation regimes, applies Commonwealth therapeutic goods laws as state law, and establishes an Advisory Council. It also provides court powers for assessment,...