(1) A legal
practitioner is not excused from complying with a requirement under this Part
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 their capacity as a legal practitioner.
(2)
Subsection (1) applies only in respect of a question or report that
relates directly to the treatment, nature or extent of impairment, or
assessment of degree of impairment, of a worker.
(3) A legal
practitioner required under this Part to produce a medical report complies
sufficiently with the requirement by producing the report 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
their capacity as a legal practitioner.