LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 704
Disclosure of information by commissioner, regulatory authorities and other entities
LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 704
Disclosure of information by commissioner, regulatory authorities and other entities
704 Disclosure of information by commissioner, regulatory authorities and
other entities
(1) This section applies to each of the following—
(a) the commissioner;
(b) a regulatory authority;
(c) the board;
(d) the Brisbane registrar and
other registrars;
(e) the tribunal’s principal registrar;
(f) for an
entity mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e) —
(i) a member of the entity; and
(ii) an employee of the entity; and
(iii) a person acting at the direction of
the entity or of the staff of the entity.
(2) An entity that holds a document
or information (the
"information holder" ) about a person may allow another entity (the
"information seeker" ) access to the document or give the information to the
information seeker if—
(b) allowing the
access or giving the information is done under a written arrangement between
the information holder and information seeker as mentioned in subsection (3) .
(3) An entity must have a written arrangement with another entity providing
for the way in which the entity, as an information holder, and its officers
may, under subsection (2) , allow access to a document or give information to
the other entity, as an information seeker, and its officers.
(4) Despite
subsection (2) , the information holder may not allow access to a suitability
report about a person, or give information about a person in a suitability
report, in contravention of section 92(1) .
Note—
Section 92states when
the board or a regulatory authority may disclose a suitability report or
information in a suitability report.
(5) This section does not limit a
provision of this Act that expressly allows an entity to give stated
information to another entity, including, for example, a report of an audit as
mentioned in section 130 .