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CIVIL LAW (WRONGS) ACT 2002 - SECT 69

Respondent to give documents etc to contributor

    (1)     A respondent must give a contributor added by the respondent copies of the following that are in the respondent's possession:

        (a)     reports and other documents about the accident claimed to have given rise to the personal injury to which the claim relates;

        (b)     reports about the claimant's medical condition or prospects of rehabilitation;

        (c)     reports about the claimant's cognitive, functional or vocational capacity;

        (d)     reports about the claimant's person injury and of any consequent disabilities;

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

        (f)     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;

        (g)     information about the claimant's claim for past and future economic loss;

        (h)     information about any claim known to the respondent for gratuitous services consequent on the claimant's personal injury.

    (2)     The respondent must give the copies—

        (a)     within the period prescribed by regulation (or, if no period is prescribed, within 1 month after the day the respondent gives a contribution notice to the contributor); and

        (b)     to the extent that a report or other document or information mentioned in subsection (1) comes into the respondent's possession later, within 7 days after the day it comes into the respondent's possession.



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