2. Order 56A of the Rules of the Superior Courts is amended by the insertion of the following rule immediately following rule 4:

“5. (1) An application to the Master under Regulation 5(2) of the European Communities (Mediation) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 209 of 2011) (in this rule referred to as “the Regulations”) may be made by originating motion ex parte grounded on an affidavit exhibiting the agreement concerned and entitled in the matter of that agreement and in the matter of the Regulations.

(2) Subject to the power conferred on the Master by Regulation 5(5) of the Regulations to require a party who is not an applicant to verify, by affidavit or otherwise, that party’s consent to the application, the affidavit referred to in sub-rule (1) shall exhibit the written consent of each other party to the mediation who is not an applicant.”