31 Legal professional privilege

• (1) The fact that a reporting business entity provided information in a ransomware payment report does not otherwise affect a claim of legal professional privilege that anyone may make in relation to that information in any proceedings:
• (a) under any Commonwealth, State or Territory law (including the common law); or
• (b) before a tribunal of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
• (2) Despite subsection (1), this section does not apply to the following:
• (a) the proceedings of a coronial inquiry or a Royal Commission in Australia;
• (b) proceedings in a federal court exercising original jurisdiction in which a writ of mandamus or prohibition or an injunction is sought against an officer or officers of the Commonwealth.

Note: For federal court, see section 2B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

• (3) This section does not limit or affect any right, privilege or immunity that the reporting business entity has, apart from this section, as a defendant in any proceedings.