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COMMUNITY LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 69
Privilege
69 Privilege
(1) 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.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the same privilege with respect to defamation
as exists with respect to judicial proceedings and a document produced in
judicial proceedings exists with respect to-- (a) a mediation session, or
(b)
a document or other material sent to, or produced at an office of, the
Secretary for the purpose of enabling a mediation session to be arranged.
(3)
The privilege conferred by subsection (2) only extends to a publication made--
(a) at a mediation session, or
(b) as provided by subsection (2) (b), or
(c)
as provided by section 70.
(4) Evidence of anything said or of any admission
made in a mediation session is not admissible in any proceedings before any
court, tribunal or body.
(5) 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 proceedings before any court,
tribunal or body.
(6) Subsections (4) and (5) 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 70
(c).
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