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Power of Courts issue processes for appearance before arbitrator
Act: Arbitration Act 1940
Section Provisions
CHAPTER VII 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 VII MISCELLANEOUS 43. Power of Courts issue processes for appearance before arbitrator. (1) The Court shall issue the same processes to the parties and witnesses whom the arbitrator or umpire desires to examine as the Court may issue in suits tried before it. (2) Persons failing to attend, in accordance with such process, or making any other default, or refusing to give their evidence, of guilty or any contempt to the arbitration or umpire during the investigation of the reference, shall be subject to the like disadvantages, penalties and punishments by order of the court on the representation of the arbitrator or umpire as they would incur for the like offices in suits tried before the Court. (3) In this Section the expression "process" includes summonses and commissions for the examination of witnesses and summonses to produce documents.