Arbitration Act, 1954

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Number 26 of 1954.


ARBITRATION ACT, 1954.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I.

Preliminary and General.

Section

1.

Short title and commencement.

2.

Interpretation generally.

3.

Commencement of arbitration.

4.

State authorities to be bound.

5.

Exclusion of certain arbitrations.

6.

Operation of Parts II and III.

7.

Penalty for giving false evidence.

8.

Repeals.

PART II.

Arbitration Under Arbitration Agreements.

9.

Authority of arbitrators and umpires to be irrevocable.

10.

Death of party.

11.

Provisions in case of bankruptcy.

12.

Power to stay proceedings where there is an arbitration agreement.

13.

Reference, of interpleader issues to arbitration.

14.

When reference is to be to a single arbitrator.

15.

Power of parties in certain cases to supply vacancy.

16.

Umpires.

17.

Agreements for reference to three arbitrators.

18.

Power of Court in certain cases to appoint an arbitrator or umpire.

19.

Powers of arbitrators and umpires as to witnesses.

20.

Powers of parties to a reference to compel attendance of witnesses.

21.

Power of Court to compel attendance of prisoner as a witness.

22.

Orders by Court in relation to security for costs and discovery of documents etc.

23.

Time for making an award.

24.

Removal of arbitrator or umpire on failure to use due dispatch.

25.

Interim awards.

26.

Specific performance.

27.

Awards to be final.

28.

Power to correct slips.

29.

Costs of reference and award to be in the discretion of the arbitrator or umpire.

30.

Avoidance of certain provisions as to costs in arbitration agreements.

31.

Application to arbitrator or umpire to give directions as to costs where award contains no provision.

32.

Application of section 3 of Legal Practitioners (Ireland) Act, 1876, to solicitors' costs in arbitrations.

33.

Taxation of arbitrator's or umpire's fee.

34.

Interest on awards.

35.

Statement of case by arbitrator or umpire.

36.

Power of Court to remit award.

37.

Power of Court to remove arbitrator or umpire on ground of misconduct.

38.

Power of Court to set aside award on ground of misconduct.

39.

Power of Court to give relief where arbitrator is not impartial or dispute referred involves question of fraud.

40.

Power of Court where arbitrator is removed or authority of arbitrator is revoked.

41.

Enforcement of award.

42.

Application of statutes of limitation to arbitration under arbitration agreements.

43.

Accrual for purposes of statutes of limitation of right of action in respect of matters required by arbitration agreement to be referred to arbitration, where agreement provides that arbitration shall be a condition precedent to commencement of action.

44.

Power of Court to extend period of limitation where it sets aside award or orders arbitration to cease to have effect.

45.

Power of Court to extend time for commencing arbitration proceedings, where agreement provides that claims are to be barred unless proceedings an commenced within a specified time.

46.

Extension of section 496 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

47.

Terms of orders.

PART III.

Arbitration Under Other Acts.

48.

Application of Part I and II to arbitrations under other Acts.

PART IV.

References under Order of the Court.

49.

Power of Court and Circuit Court to refer in certain cases.

50.

Power of arbitration in references under section 49.

51.

Court to have power as in references under arbitration agreement.

52.

Statement of case pending arbitration.

53.

Power of Supreme Court.

PART V.

Enforcement of certain foreign awards.

54.

“Foreign award”.

55.

Effect of foreign awards.

56.

Conditions for enforcement of foreign awards.

57.

Evidence.

58.

Meaning of “final award”.

59.

Saving for other rights, etc.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

THIRD SCHEDULE.


Acts Referred to

Industrial Relations Act, 1946

No. 26 of 1946

Courts of Justice Act, 1924

No. 10 of 1924

Courts of Justice Act, 1936

No. 48 of 1936

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Number 26 of 1954.


ARBITRATION ACT, 1954.


AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER AND BETTER PROVISION IN RESPECT OF ARBITRATIONS. [9th December, 1954.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—