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Establishment of Community Mediation Centres
3. Community Mediation Centres are established at any premises that the Minister may, by order in the Gazette, determine and must be operated in accordance with this Act for the purpose of providing mediation services.
Directors
4. The Minister must appoint a Director for each Community Mediation Centre and the same person may be the Director for more than one Community Mediation Centre.
Delegation by Director
5.—(1) The Director of a Community Mediation Centre may authorise any member of the staff, employee or officer of the Centre to exercise such of the Director’s functions (except for this power of authorisation) as the Director thinks fit, and the Director may revoke wholly or in part any such authorisation. (2) A function which is authorised to be exercised under this section may, while the authorisation remains unrevoked, be exercised from time to time in accordance with the terms of the authorisation. (3) An authorisation under this section may be made subject to conditions or limitations. (4) Despite any authorisation under this section, the Director may continue to exercise all or any of the functions to which the authorisation relates. (5) Any act or thing done in the exercise of a function by a person authorised under this section to exercise the function has the same force and effect as if done by the Director.
Place of operation of Community Mediation Centres
6.—(1) The principal office of a Community Mediation Centre must be at the premises specified in relation to the Centre in the order under section 3. (2) The activities of a Community Mediation Centre may be conducted at its principal office or at any other places that its Director may approve from time to time.
Records
7.—(1) The Director of a Community Mediation Centre must ensure that such records relating to the activities of the Centre are made and kept as are necessary or appropriate to enable a proper evaluation of Community Mediation Centres under section 16 to be made. (2) The records of a Community Mediation Centre relating to any dispute before a mediator in the Centre must be kept for a period of 3 years after the date the dispute is settled before the mediator, or the date of withdrawal from or termination of the mediation, as the case may be.
Mediators
8.—(1) The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Director of a Community Mediation Centre, appoint any person (other than the Director) as a mediator for the Centre and may revoke the appointment. (2) A mediator appointed under subsection (1) is entitled to be paid such remuneration as the Minister may determine and must abide by the terms of any Code of Conduct as the Minister may approve.
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