(1) An Australian legal practitioner must comply with a requirement under this
chapter or a requirement under the QCAT Act , to answer a question or to
produce information or a document, despite any duty of confidentiality about a
communication between the legal practitioner and a client, but only if the
client is the complainant or consents to its disclosure.
(2) A provision of
an agreement with a client in settlement of a matter that involves conduct
that may be the subject of a complaint under this chapter is not enforceable
to prevent the client disclosing, or consenting to the disclosure of,
information or a document for an investigation of the complaint, whether or
not the complaint has been withdrawn, or an investigation matter.
(3) It is a
reasonable excuse for the Australian legal practitioner not to comply with a
requirement mentioned in subsection (1) if complying with the requirement
might tend to incriminate the practitioner.
(4) For this section, the
commissioner may give an undertaking to a person regarding non-disclosure of
information or a document given under subsection (3) .