Section 18 — Family Proceedings Act 1980: Privilege

18 Privilege (1) No evidence shall be admissible in any Court, or before any person acting judicially, of any information, statement, or admission disclosed or made— (a) To a counsellor exercising his functions under this Part of this Act; or (b) In the course of a mediation conference. (2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall apply to a record made by a Family Court Judge under section 14(7) of this Act, or to any consent order made under section 15 of this Act, or to any proceedings for the review of such an order. (3) Except to the extent that it is necessary for a counsellor to do so in the proper discharge of that counsellor's functions, every counsellor commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 who discloses to any other person any information, statement, or admission received by or made to the counsellor in the exercise of the counsellor's functions under this Part of this Act. Compare: 1963 No 71 s 5; 1968 No 62 s 18