132   Privilege

(1)  In this section, mediation session includes any steps taken in the course of making arrangements for the session or in the course of the follow-up of a session.

(2)  Subject to subsection (3), the same privilege with respect to defamation as exists with respect to judicial proceedings and a document produced in judicial proceedings exists with respect to:

(a)  a mediation session, or

(b)  a document or other material sent to, or produced at an office of, the Director-General for the purpose of enabling a mediation session to be arranged.

(3)  The privilege conferred by subsection (2) only extends to a publication made:

(a)  at a mediation session, or

(b)  as provided by subsection (2) (b), or

(c)  as provided by section 133.

(4)  Evidence of anything said or of any admission made in a mediation session is not admissible in any proceedings before any court, tribunal or body.

(5)  A document prepared for the purposes of, or in the course of, or as a result of, a mediation session, or any copy of such a document, is not admissible in evidence in any proceedings before any court, tribunal or body.

(6)  Subsections (4) and (5) do not apply with respect to any evidence or document:

(a)  if the persons in attendance at, or identified during, the mediation session and, in the case of a document, all persons identified in the document, consent to the admission of the evidence or document, or

(b)  in proceedings instituted with respect to any act or omission in connection with which a disclosure has been made under section 133 (c).