The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Justice.

Pursuant to section 12(1) of the Arbitration (Foreign Agreements and Awards) Act 1982, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order.

1	Title and commencement
2	Interpretation
3	Countries declared to be parties to the Convention
	Schedule Countries declared to be parties to the Convention
	Explanatory note
	Gazette Information
	Notes

Order

1 Title and commencement

(1)

This order may be cited as the Arbitration (Foreign Agreements and Awards) Order 1983.

(2)

This order shall come into force on the 14th day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.

2 Interpretation

In this order Convention means the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards adopted at New York by the United Nations Conference on International Commercial Arbitration on 10 June 1958, a copy of the English text of which is set out in the Schedule of the Arbitration (Foreign Agreements and Awards) Act 1982.

3 Countries declared to be parties to the Convention

Each of the countries specified in the Schedule is hereby declared to be a party to the Convention.

Schedule Countries declared to be parties to the Convention

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Australia (including territories for the international relations of which Australia is responsible)

Austria

Belgium

Benin

Botswana

Bulgaria

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Central African Republic

Chile

Colombia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czechoslovakia

Democratic Kampuchea

Denmark (including the Faeroe Islands and Greenland)

Ecuador

Egypt

Federal Republic of Germany

Finland

France (including all the territories of the French Republic)

German Democratic Republic

Ghana

Greece

Holy See

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

Jordan

Kuwait

Madagascar

Mexico

Monaco

Morocco

Netherlands (including Netherlands Antilles)

Niger

Nigeria

Norway

Philippines

Poland

Republic of Korea

Romania

San Marino

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Switzerland

Syrian Arab Republic

Thailand

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

United Kingdom (including Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands)

United Republic of Tanzania

United States of America (including territories for the international relations of which the United States of America is responsible)

Yugoslavia

P G Millen,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which comes into force on the 14th day after the date of its notification in the Gazette, declares the countries listed in the Schedule to be parties to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards 1958.

For the purposes of the Arbitration (Foreign Agreements and Awards) Act 1982 the order, while it remains in force, is conclusive evidence that the countries so listed are parties to that Convention. This means that an award made in arbitration proceedings in any of those countries may be enforced in New Zealand in accordance with that Act.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 24 March 1983.

Notes

1 General

This is a consolidation of the Arbitration (Foreign Agreements and Awards) Order 1983 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.

3 Editorial and format changes

The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

Arbitration Act 1996 (1996 No 99): section 18

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