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THE NINTH SCHEDULE
(See section 64)
In the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 (4 of 2016),—
(a) for Chapter IIIA, the following Chapter shall be substituted, namely:—
"CHAPTER IIIA
PRE-LITIGATION MEDIATION AND SETTLEMENT
12A. Pre-litigation Mediation and Settlement.—(1) A suit, which does not contemplate any
urgent interim relief under this Act, shall not be instituted unless the plaintiff exhausts the remedy of
pre-litigation mediation in accordance with such manner and procedure as may be prescribed by rules
made by the Central Government.
(2) For the purposes of pre-litigation mediation, the Central Government may, by notification,
authorise—
(i) the Authority, constituted under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987); or
(ii) a mediation service provider as defined under clause (m) of section 3 of the Mediation
Act, 2023.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987),
the Authority or mediation service provider authorised by the Central Government under
sub-section (2) shall complete the process of mediation within a period of one hundred and twenty
days from the date of application made by the plaintiff under sub-section (1):
Provided that the period of mediation may be extended for a further period of sixty days with the
consent of the parties:
Provided further that, the period during which the parties spent for pre-litigation mediation shall
not be computed for the purposes of limitation under the Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963).
(4) If the parties to the commercial dispute arrive at a settlement, the same shall be reduced into
writing and shall be signed by the parties and the mediator.
(5) The mediated settlement agreement arrived at under this section shall be dealt with in accordance
with the provisions of sections 27 and 28 of the Mediation Act, 2023.”;
(b) in section 21A, in sub-section (2), for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted,
namely:—
“(a) the manner and procedure of pre-litigation mediation under sub-section (1) of
section 12A;”.
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