Section 80 Arbitration and Mediation Act 2023

Section 80 Arbitration and Mediation Act 2023 is about Resort to arbitral or judicial proceedings. It is under Part II (Mediation) of the Act.

Where parties have agreed to mediate and have expressly undertaken not to initiate arbitral or judicial proceedings with respect to an existing or future dispute during a specified time or until a specified event has occurred, such an undertaking shall be given effect by the arbitral tribunal or the Court until the terms of the undertaking have been complied with, except to the extent necessary for a party, to preserve its rights but initiation of such proceedings is not of itself to be regarded as a waiver of the agreement to mediate or as a termination of the mediation proceedings.