(1)  If a client of an Australian legal practitioner makes a complaint about the practitioner, the complainant is taken to have waived legal professional privilege, or the benefit of any duty of confidentiality, to enable the practitioner to disclose to the appropriate authorities any information necessary for investigating and dealing with the complaint.

(2)  Without limiting subsection (1) , any information so disclosed may be used in or in connection with any procedures or proceedings relating to the complaint.