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35

Effect of legal proceedings on arbitration

Act: Arbitration Act 1940

Section Provisions

CHAPTER V THE ARBITRATION ACT, 1940 (X OF 1940) [11 March, 1940] An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Arbitration. WHERE it is expedient to consolidate and amend. the law relating to arbitration in Pakistan. It is hereby enacted as follows:‑ CHAPTER V GENERAL 35. Effect of legal proceedings on arbitration. (1) No reference nor award shall be rendered invalid by reasons only of the commencement of legal proceedings upon the subject‑matter of the reference, but when legal proceedings upon the whole of the subject‑matter of the reference have been commenced between all the parties to the reference and a notice thereof has been given to the arbitrators or umpire, all further proceedings in a pending reference shall, unless a stay of proceedings is granted under Section 34, by invalid. (2) In this Section the expression "parties to the reference" includes any person claiming under any of the parties and litigating under the same title.