27Requests for information

27 Requests for information

(1)  For the purpose of assisting a farmer and a Creditor to participate in mediation, a mediator may facilitate an exchange of information between the farmer and the Creditor.

(2)  If a farmer requests information from a Creditor for the purposes of mediation, the farmer must first provide the mediator with a copy of the request.

(3)  If a Creditor requests information from a farmer for the purposes of mediation, the Creditor must first provide the mediator with a copy of the request.

(4)  In preparing a summary of a mediation under section 39 , a mediator is to have regard to whether any request for information made by a farmer under subsection (2) , or by a Creditor under subsection (3) , was reasonable, and whether information was provided in response to the request within a reasonable period.

(5)  Subsection (4) does not limit the matters to which the mediator is to have regard in preparing a summary of a mediation under section 39 .