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WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1986 - SECT 92C

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1986 - SECT 92C

92C—Procedure in conciliation proceedings

        (1)         In the course of conducting conciliation proceedings, the conciliator may interview the parties to the dispute separately or together.

        (2)         The conciliator presiding at a conference may (subject to the rules) adjourn the conference from time to time to allow the parties to gather further information, to consider their respective positions or for other purposes relevant to the resolution of the dispute.

        (3)         Evidence of anything said or done in the course of conciliation proceedings is only admissible in subsequent proceedings by consent of all parties to the proceedings.

        (4)         However—

            (a)         evidence of a settlement reached in conciliation proceedings is admissible (without the consent of all parties) in subsequent proceedings; and

            (b)         evidence of the offers made in the course of conciliation proceedings is admissible (without the consent of all parties) in subsequent proceedings for the purpose of applying provisions for deciding questions about costs.

        (5)         A settlement to which counsel or another representative of a party agrees at a conference is binding on the party.

        (6)         The conciliator presiding at a conference may make a determination or order to give effect to a settlement reached at the conference.

        (7)         A determination or order under subsection (6)



is a determination or order of the Tribunal.