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Arbitration Act 1996

Public Act1996 No 99
Date of assent2 September 1996

Note

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Justice


Contents

Title

1 Short Title and commencement

2 Interpretation

3 Further provision relating to interpretation

4 Act to bind the Crown

5 Purposes of Act

6 Rules applying to arbitrations in New Zealand

7 Arbitrations and awards outside New Zealand

8 Provisions applying where place of arbitration not agreed or determined

9 Arbitration under other Acts

10 Arbitrability of disputes

11 Consumer arbitration agreements

12 Powers of arbitral tribunal in deciding disputes

13 Liability of arbitrators

14 Disclosure of information relating to arbitral proceedings and awards prohibited

15 Certificates concerning parties to the Conventions

16 Rules

17 Amendments to other Acts

18 Repeals

19 Transitional provisions

20 Act passed in substitution for Arbitration Act 1908

Schedule 1
Rules applying to arbitration generally

Schedule 2
Additional optional rules applying to arbitration

Schedule 3
Treaties relating to arbitration

Schedule 4
Enactments amended

Schedule 5
Enactments repealed


An Act to reform the law relating to arbitration

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

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