Arbitration and Conciliation Act : Power of judicial authority to refer parties to arbitration. Indian

Arbitration and Conciliation Act,1996

Act No : 26

Section : Power of judicial authority to refer parties to arbitration.

45. Power of judicial authority to refer parties to arbitration. Notwithstanding anything contained in Part I or in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), a judicial authority, when seized of an action in a matter in respect of which the parties have made an agreement referred to in section 44, shall, at the request of one of the parties or any person claiming through or under him, refer the parties to arbitration, unless it finds that the said agreement is mill and void, inoperative or incapable of bring performed.