Small Claims Tribunals Act 1984 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Establishment and Jurisdiction of Tribunals
18A. Referral of cases to Community Mediation Centre, etc.
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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.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the registrar, a deputy registrar or an assistant registrar for the tribunals;
The Registrar or the tribunal may, in making a referral under subsection (1) —
tribunal
“tribunal” means a Small Claims Tribunal constituted under section 4 of the State Courts Act 1970;
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.
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.
This section has effect despite any other written law.