Community Disputes Resolution Act 2015 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals
31A. Registration of settlement agreement as order of tribunal
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Where a settlement agreement (called in this section the agreement) has been entered into pursuant to a mediation for a dispute which may form the basis for a claim under section 4 for which no proceedings have been brought in a court (including a tribunal), any party to the agreement may, with the consent of all the other parties to the agreement, apply to a tribunal to register the agreement as an order of the tribunal made under section 5.
The application must be made within —
the period prescribed by Rules of Court made under section 32 for this purpose; or
any longer period that the tribunal may allow.
Subject to subsection (4), a tribunal may register an agreement as an order of the tribunal if —
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“Community Disputes Resolution Tribunal” or “tribunal” means a District Court designated under section 14 as a Community Disputes Resolution Tribunal;
the agreement is in writing and signed by or on behalf of all the parties to the agreement on or after the date of commencement of section 26 of the Community Disputes Resolution (Amendment) Act 2024; and
the agreement complies with the requirements prescribed by Rules of Court made under section 32 including any requirement as to the form or content of the agreement.
The tribunal may refuse to register an agreement or a particular term or terms of an agreement as an order of the tribunal if —
the agreement is void or voidable because of incapacity, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake or any other ground for invalidating a contract;
the agreement includes subject matter that does not relate to a dispute which may form the basis for a claim under section 4;
any term of the agreement is not capable of enforcement as an order of a tribunal; or
the registration of the agreement is contrary to public policy.
Where the agreement or part of the agreement is registered as an order of a tribunal —
the agreement is, for the purposes of enforcement, of the same force and effect as if the agreement were an order made by the tribunal under section 5 and made on the date of the registration; and
proceedings may be taken on the agreement as if the agreement were an order made by the tribunal under section 5.
There is no appeal against any decision of the tribunal to register an agreement under subsection (3) or refuse to register an agreement under subsection (4).