New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL TENANCIES ACT 1990 - SECT 26F

26F Privilege

(1) Evidence of anything said or of any admission made in a mediation session is not admissible in any arbitration proceedings or proceedings before any court, tribunal or body.

(2) A document prepared for the purposes of, or in the course of, or as a result of, a mediation session, or any copy of such a document, is not admissible in evidence in any arbitration proceedings or proceedings before any court, tribunal or body.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply with respect to any evidence or document:

(a) if the persons in attendance at, or identified during, the mediation session and, in the case of a document, all persons identified in the document consent to the admission of the evidence or document, or

(b) in proceedings instituted with respect to any act or omission in connection with which a disclosure has been made under section 26G.

(4) In this section:
"mediation session" includes any steps taken in the course of making arrangements for the session or in the course of the follow-up of a session.