Number 27 of 2017
MEDIATION ACT 2017
CONTENTS
PART 1
PRELIMINARY AND GENERAL
1. Short title and commencement
2. Interpretation
3. Application
4. Regulations
5. Expenses
PART 2
MEDIATION IN GENERAL
6. Mediation
7. Agreement to mediate
8. Role of mediator
9. Code of practice
10. Confidentiality
11. Enforceability of mediation settlements
12. Council
13. Reports of Council
PART 3
OBLIGATIONS OF PRACTISING SOLICITORS AND BARRISTERS AS REGARDS MEDIATION
14. Practising solicitor and mediation
15. Practising barrister and mediation
PART 4
ROLE OF COURT IN MEDIATION, ETC.
16. Court inviting parties to consider mediation
17. Mediator report to court
18. Effect of mediation on limitation and prescription periods
19. Adjourning court proceedings to facilitate mediation
20. Fees and costs
21. Factors to be considered by court in awarding costs
22. Amendment of Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004
PART 5
MEDIATION INFORMATION SESSIONS
23. Mediation information sessions in family law and succession proceedings
PART 6
AMENDMENT OF OTHER ACTS
24. Amendment of Guardianship of Infants Act 1964
25. Amendment of Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989
26. Amendment of Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996
SCHEDULE
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS IN RELATION TO COUNCIL
ACTS REFERRED TO
- Arbitration Act 2010 (No. 1)
- Child Abduction and Enforcement of Custody Orders Act 1991 (No. 6)
- Child Care Acts 1991 to 2015
- Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 (No. 9)
- Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 (No. 31)
- Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)
- Customs Act 2015 (No. 18)
- Domestic Violence Acts 1996 to 2011
- Enforcement of Court Orders Act 1940 (No. 23)
- Family Home Protection Act 1976 (No. 27)
- Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 (No. 33)
- Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses and Children) Act 1976 (No. 11)
- Family Law Act 1981 (No. 22)
- Family Law Act 1995 (No. 26)
- Finance (Tax Appeals) Act 2015 (No. 59)
- Finance Act 2001 (No. 7)
- Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 (No. 7)
- Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act 1989 (No. 6)
- Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 (No. 65)
- Maintenance Act 1994 (No. 28)
- Property Values (Arbitrations and Appeals) Act 1960 (No. 45)
- Protection of Children (Hague Convention) Act 2000 (No. 37)
- Status of Children Act 1987 (No. 26)
- Succession Act 1965 (No. 27)
- Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (No. 39)
- Workplace Relations Act 2015 (No. 16)
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