New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DUST DISEASES TRIBUNAL ACT 1989 - SECT 32I

32I Information about claims

(1) An Australian legal practitioner who acts for a party on a claim must provide the Registrar with such information concerning the claim as the regulations may require for the purposes of this section.

(2) If both a barrister and a solicitor act for a party, the obligation to comply with subsection (1) falls on the solicitor and not the barrister.

(3) A failure by an Australian legal practitioner to comply with this section is capable of being unsatisfactory professional conduct by the Australian legal practitioner.

(4) If a party to a claim is not represented on the claim by an Australian legal practitioner, the party must provide the information required by this section (as and when an Australian legal practitioner representing the party would be required to provide it).

Maximum penalty: 5 penalty units.

(5) The Registrar is to maintain a database of the information provided to the Registrar under this section and is to maintain and provide access to that database in accordance with such directions as the Attorney General may give to the Registrar from time to time.

(6) The Registrar must provide to the Attorney General such reports with respect to information provided to the Registrar under this section as the Attorney General may from time to time direct.

(7) Any document (other than a report under subsection (6)) that contains information provided to the Registrar under this section, and the database maintained by the Registrar under this Part, are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1989 .

(8) A person who in the course of the administration of this Act obtains information provided to the Registrar under subsection (1) (not including information included in a report under subsection (6)) must not directly or indirectly make a record of the information or divulge it to another person except:

(a) with the consent of the person who provided the information to the Registrar, or

(b) in connection with the administration or execution of this Act, or

(c) in accordance with a requirement imposed by or under a law of the State (other than a requirement imposed by a subpoena or other compulsory process) or of the Commonwealth.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.