Legal Profession Act 2007

This section applies to each of the following—

the commissioner;

a regulatory authority;

the board;

the Brisbane registrar and other registrars;

the tribunal’s principal registrar;

for an entity mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e)—

a member of the entity; and

an employee of the entity; and

a person acting at the direction of the entity or of the staff of the entity.

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—

the information holder considers allowing the access or giving the information is consistent with the information holder’s or information seeker’s functions under this Act; and

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).

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.

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).

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.