Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017:clause:3_352x
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025A00017
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 352X
Character Range: 218595–219754

352X  Evidence not admissible
 (1) Evidence of anything said, or any act done, at an alternative dispute resolution process under this Division is not admissible:
 (a) in any court; or
 (b) in any proceedings before a person authorised by a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory to hear evidence; or
 (c) in any proceedings before a person authorised by the consent of the parties to hear evidence.

Exceptions
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply so as to prevent, at the hearing of a review before the Board, the admission of particular evidence if the parties to the review agree to the evidence being admissible at the hearing.
 (3) Subsection (1) does not apply so as to prevent, at the hearing of a review before the Board, the admission of:
 (a) a case appraisal report prepared by a person conducting an alternative dispute resolution process under this Division; or
 (b) a neutral evaluation report prepared by a person conducting an alternative dispute resolution process under this Division;
unless a party to the review notifies the Board before the hearing begins that the party objects to the report being admissible at the hearing.