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Farm Debt Mediation Act 1994
18DRequests for information
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#### 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.
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> > (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.
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> > (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.
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> > (4) Subsection (3) does not limit the matters to which the mediator is to have regard in preparing a summary of the mediation.
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> **s 18D:** Ins 2018 No 16, Sch 1 \[10\].