WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 182ZA
WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SECT 182ZA
182ZA . Legal professional privilege in relation to medical reports
(1) A legal
practitioner is not excused from complying with a requirement under this
Division to answer a question in relation to a medical report or produce a
medical report on the ground that the answer to the question would disclose,
or the report contains, a privileged communication made by or to the legal
practitioner in his or her capacity as a legal practitioner.
(2) Subsection (1)
does not apply in respect of a question that does not relate directly to the
treatment, or nature or extent of impairment, or assessment of degree of
impairment, of a worker.
(3) A medical report
may be produced by the legal practitioner in compliance with a requirement
under this Division with the omission of passages that —
(a) do
not relate directly to the treatment, or nature or extent of impairment, or
assessment of degree of impairment, of a worker; and
(b)
contain a privileged communication made by or to the legal practitioner in his
or her capacity as a legal practitioner.
[Section 182ZA inserted: No. 31 of 2011 s. 6.]