New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WESTERN LANDS ACT 1901 - SECT 35U

35U Mediation of disputes as to easements

(1) If there is a dispute between two or more lessees of land over a proposal to create or release a special easement, either of them may apply to a local land board for mediation of the dispute.

(2) Attendance at, and participation in, proceedings on the application are voluntary.

(3) The local land board is to use its best endeavours to bring the parties to the proceedings to a resolution of the dispute.

(4) Each party to the proceedings is to bear his or her own costs with respect to the proceedings.

(5) Testimony given, and documents tendered, in the proceedings are not admissible as evidence in any other proceedings before any court or tribunal.

(6) A local land board, and parties to proceedings before a local land board, have the same protections and immunities in relation to proceedings brought before the local land board under this section as the Local Court, and parties to proceedings before the Local Court, have in relation to civil proceedings brought before the Local Court.