18DRequests for information

18D Requests for information

18D Requests for information

(1) A mediator may facilitate the exchange of information between the parties to the mediation for the purpose of assisting the parties to resolve the issues between them.

(2) For that purpose, a party to a mediation must give the mediator a copy of any request for information before giving the request to the other party.

(3) In preparing a summary of the mediation under this Part, the mediator is to have regard to whether any request for information made by a party was reasonable, and whether information was provided in response to a request within a reasonable period.

(4) Subsection (3) does not limit the matters to which the mediator is to have regard in preparing a summary of the mediation.

s 18D: Ins 2018 No 16, Sch 1 [10].