Singapore legislation
Clause 7
Clause 7
New section 18A
The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 18, the following section:“Referral of cases to Community Mediation Centre, etc.18A.—
The Registrar or a tribunal may refer a claim to a Community Mediation Centre or any other person for mediation, with or without the consent of the parties to the claim.(2) The Registrar or the tribunal may, in making a referral under subsection (1) —
order all or any of the parties to the claim to attend (personally or by a representative permitted under section 23(2)) before a mediator of the Community Mediation Centre, or that other person, at the time and place specified in the order;
give any direction necessary for and incidental to the proper carrying into effect of the referral; and
order that all further proceedings on the claim under this Act be stayed pending the mediation.(3) Section 23 applies to a mediation required under this section, subject to the modification that a reference in section 23 to proceedings before a tribunal is a reference to the mediation.(4) This section has effect despite any other written law.”.