Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002

A respondent must give a contributor for the claim added by the respondent copies of the following in the respondent’s possession—

reports and other documentary material about the incident alleged to have given rise to the personal injury to which the claim relates;

reports about the claimant’s medical condition or prospects of rehabilitation;

reports about the claimant’s cognitive, functional or vocational capacity;

reports about the claimant’s personal injury and of any consequent disabilities;

if applicable, information about the medical treatment and rehabilitation services the claimant has sought or obtained;

information about the claimant’s medical history, as far as it is relevant to the claim, and any other claims for damages for personal injury made by the claimant;

information about the claimant’s claim for past and future economic loss;

information about any claim known to the respondent for gratuitous services or loss of consortium or servitium consequent on the claimant’s personal injury.

The respondent must give the copies—

within the period prescribed under a regulation or, if no period is prescribed, within 1 month after giving a contribution notice to the contributor; and

to the extent any report, documentary material or information comes into the respondent’s possession more than 1 month after giving the contribution notice, within 7 days after it comes into the respondent’s possession.