(1) This section applies where:

(a)

under this Part, Division 3 of Part 10, or Division 2 of Part 11, a person requires a lawyer:

(i)

to give information; or

(ii)

to produce a book; and

(b)

giving the information would involve disclosing, or the book contains, as the case may be, a privileged communication made by, on behalf of or to the lawyer in his or her capacity as a lawyer.

(2) The lawyer is entitled to refuse to comply with the requirement unless:

(a)

if the person to whom, or by or on behalf of whom, the communication was made is a body corporate that is under official management or being wound up—the official manager or liquidator of the body; or

(b)

otherwise—the person to whom, or by or on behalf of whom, the communication was made;