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(1) For the purpose of mediation, the National Commission or the
State Commission or the District Commission, as the case may be, shall prepare a panel of the mediators
to be maintained by the consumer mediation cell attached to it, on the recommendation of a selection
committee consisting of the President and a member of that Commission.
(2) The qualifications and experience required for empanelment as mediator, the procedure for
empanelment, the manner of training empanelled mediators, the fee payable to empanelled mediator, the
terms and conditions for empanelment, the code of conduct for empanelled mediators, the grounds on
which, and the manner in which, empanelled mediators shall be removed or empanelment shall be
cancelled and other matters relating thereto, shall be such as may be specified by regulations.
(3) The panel of mediators prepared under sub-section (1) shall be valid for a period of five years, and
the empanelled mediators shall be eligible to be considered for re-empanelment for another term, subject
to such conditions as may be specified by regulations.