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ACT IX OF 2011 ACT IX OF 2011 ARBITRATION (INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT DISPUTES) ACT, 2011 An Act to implement the International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of other States [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part - I, 30th April, 2011] No. F.9(34)/2010-Legis. dated 30-4-2011.---The following Act of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) received the assent of the President on 28th April, 2011, is hereby phblished for general information:-- Whereas Pakistan has signed and ratified the International Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of other States; And whereas it is expedient to enact the law for that purpose. It is hereby enacted as follows:- 3. Registration of awards.---(1) An award shall be deemed to have been rendered pursuant to the Convention on the date on which certified copies of the award were dispatched to the parties. (2) Any person seeking recognition or enforcement of an award rendered pursuant to the Convention shall be entitled to have the award registered in the High Court subject to proof of any matters that may be prescribed and to the other provisions of this Act. (3) In addition to the pecuniary obligations imposed by the award, the award shall be registered for the reasonable costs of and incidental to registration. (4) If at the date of the application for registration the pecuniary obligation imposed by the award has been partly satisfied, the award shall be registered only in respect of the balance, and accordingly if those obligations have been wholly satisfied, the award shall not be registered.'