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Mediation refresher training, in short, is training that mediators are obliged to attend at regular intervals after their registration in the registry. In this article, we discuss the basis of refresher training in the regulation, its duration and the dates between which the first refresher training must be completed.
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This article was prepared in accordance with the legislation and practice in force on the date of its publication. The first refresher training period mentioned in the article has ended, and the subsequent periods and the provisions of the Regulation may have changed since then. You are advised to consult a lawyer on the current position.
Pursuant to Article 32/6, which governs mediation training, of the REGULATION ON THE LAW ON MEDIATION IN CIVIL DISPUTES published in Official Gazette No. 30439 of 2 June 2018 (and repealing the 2013 regulation),
”Mediation training
ARTICLE 32 – ……..
(6) Mediators shall be given refresher training, both theoretical and practical, of not less than eight hours in total, once every three years, by institutions authorised to provide mediation training. Mediators must attend refresher training within the third year following the date of their registration in the register.”
Regulation on the Law on Mediation in Civil Disputes, Article 32/6
Under the Regulation, refresher training is, in brief, regulated as follows:
Likewise, Provisional Article 1, set out under the heading “Miscellaneous and Final Provisions” of the same regulation,
“As the registration date on which refresher training is based
PROVISIONAL ARTICLE 1 – (1) For those registered in the register before 1/1/2018, the date on which this Regulation is published in the Official Gazette shall be deemed the date of registration in the register for the purposes of paragraph six of Article 32.”
Regulation on the Law on Mediation in Civil Disputes, Provisional Article 1
so provides.
First renewal period
In that case the first mediation refresher training must be completed between 02.06.2020, the start of the third year, and 02.06.2021.
Under Article 32/6 of the Regulation as cited in the article, refresher training is provided in theoretical and practical form by institutions authorised to provide mediation training, once every three years and for a total of not less than eight hours.
Under the same provision, mediators must attend refresher training within the third year from the date of their registration in the registry.
Under provisional Article 1 of the Regulation, for these mediators the date on which the Regulation was published in the Official Gazette is deemed to be the date of registration. The article states that, under the rules in force when it was written, the first refresher training had to be completed between 02.06.2020 and 02.06.2021.
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