Queensland Consolidated Acts

FARM BUSINESS DEBT MEDIATION ACT 2017 - SECT 38

38 Confidentiality

(1) The following matters are not admissible in any civil, criminal or administrative proceeding—

(a) anything said or done during a mediation meeting;

(b) a document prepared for the purposes of a mediation meeting;

(c) a document prepared for the purpose of being given to a party to a mediation as required under section 21 or 22 .

(2) This section does not apply to—

(a) a heads of agreement; or

(b) a contract, mortgage or other document prepared to give effect to a heads of agreement; or

(c) a summary of a mediation prepared under section 33 ; or

(d) a proceeding or a part of a proceeding before QCAT that is not open to the public, including, for example, a proceeding started under section 82 ; or

(e) a proceeding or a part of a proceeding that relates to—

(i) violence or a threat of violence; or

(ii) ongoing activity of a criminal nature being concealed; or

(iii) the abuse of a child or another person.

(3) In this section—

"mediation meeting" includes anything done for the purpose of arranging for, or following up matters discussed or agreed at, a mediation meeting.