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Chapter 7:15
ARBITRATION ACT
Acts 6/1996, 14/20021; Modified by S.1. 208/1996.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Law applicable to arbitrations.
4. What may be arbitrated.
5. Application of Act to arbitration under other enactments.
6. Repeal and transitional provisions.
7. Amendments to Acts.
FIRST SCHEDULE: Model Law.
SECOND SCHEDULE: Amendments to Acts.
AN ACT to give effect to domestic and international arbitration agreements; to
apply, with modifications, the Model Law on International Commercial
Arbitration adopted by the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law on the 21st June, 1985, thereby giving effect to the Convention on
the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards adopted in
New York on the 10th June, 1958; to repeal the Arbitration Act [Chapter
7:02]; to amend the High Court Act [Chapter 7:06], and section 6 of the
Prescribed Rate of Interest Act [Chapter 8:10]; and to provide for matters
incidental to or connected with the foregoing.
[Date of commencement: 13th September, 1996.]
1
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Arbitration Act [Chapter 7:15] (No. 6 of 1996).
2
Interpretation
(1) In this Act—
1
General Laws Amendment (No. 2) Act, 2002 (No. 14 of 2002), with effect from 4th February, 2002 (see s. 47 of the Act).