An Act to promote and facilitate mediation, especially institutional mediation, for resolution of disputes, commercial or otherwise, enforce mediated settlement agreements, provide for a body for registration of mediators, to encourage community mediation and to make online mediation as acceptable and cost effective process and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Mediation Act, 2023.
“Section 1 enforced w.e.f. 9-10-2023, vide Noti. No. S.O. 4384(E), dt. 9-10-2023.”
3. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(r) “participants” means persons other than the parties who participate in the mediation and includes advisers, advocates, consultants and any technical experts and observers;
(u) “pre-litigation mediation” means a process of undertaking mediation, as provided under Section 5, for settlement of disputes prior to the filing of a suit or proceeding of civil or commercial nature in respect thereof, before a court or notified tribunal under sub-section (2) of Section 5;
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