# 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.