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Mediation Act, 2023

An Act to promote and facilitate mediation, especially institutional mediation, for resolution of disputes, commercial or otherwise, enforce mediated settlement agreements, provide for a body for registration of mediators, to encourage community mediation and to make online mediation as acceptable and cost effective process and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:––

Chapters and schedules

  1. Chapter 1 · Preliminary1 provision
  2. Chapter 2 · Application2 provisions
  3. Chapter 3 · Mediation4 provisions
  4. Chapter 4 · Mediators5 provisions
  5. Chapter 5 · Mediation proceedings14 provisions
  6. Chapter 6 · Enforcement of mediated settlement agreement3 provisions
  7. Chapter 7 · Online mediation1 provision
  8. Chapter 8 · Mediation Council of India9 provisions
  9. Chapter 9 · Mediation service providers and mediation institutes3 provisions
  10. Chapter 10 · Community mediation2 provisions
  11. Chapter 11 · Miscellaneous21 provisions
  12. Schedules10 provisions
Commencement and Council: separate government notices

The 9 October 2023 notice covers sections 1, 3, 26, 31–38, 45–47, 50–54 and 56–57, not the whole Act. An empty commencement record is not proof that later notices do not exist.

S.O. 4384(E): commencement notice

The 27 August 2026 notice establishes the Mediation Council of India with its head office at Delhi under section 31(1). It is not a commencement notice for all procedural sections.

S.O. 4781(E): Council establishment