Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person is not liable, civilly, criminally or under an administrative process, for giving a coroner any of the following—
(a) information, a document or anything else (the required item) in compliance with a requirement made under section 16;
(b) confidential information under section 17.
(2) Also, merely because the person gives the required item or confidential information, the person can not be held to have—
(a) breached any code of professional etiquette or ethics; or
(b) departed from accepted standards of professional conduct.
(3) Without limiting subsections (1) and (2)—
(a) in a proceeding for defamation, the person has a defence of absolute privilege for publishing the required item or confidential information; and
(b) if the person would otherwise be required to maintain confidentiality about the required item or confidential information under an Act, oath or rule of law or practice, the person—
(i) does not contravene the Act, oath or rule of law or practice by giving the required item or confidential information; and
(ii) is not liable to disciplinary action for giving the required item or confidential information.