New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2004 - SECT 722A

722A Protection of applications for referral for pro bono legal services

(1) A protected person is not required to divulge or produce to any person, court or tribunal (whether in response to a subpoena or otherwise) any information or document received by a protected person in connection with an application made by or on behalf of a person for a referral for the provision of legal services on a pro bono basis.

(2) This section has effect despite section 730A (Duty to report suspected offences).

(3) In this section:
"protected person" means:

(a) the Bar Association or Law Society, or

(b) a Council or a member of a Council, or

(c) a committee or member of a committee of the Bar Association, Law Society or a Council, or

(d) an Australian legal practitioner to whom a person or body mentioned in a preceding paragraph of this definition gives any information or document referred to in subsection (1) for the purpose of advising such a person or body on the application, or

(e) an employee or agent of, or a person acting at the direction of, a person or body mentioned in a preceding paragraph of this definition.