Arbitration Clauses (Protocol) and the Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Amendment Act 1957
Arbitration Clauses (Protocol) and the Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Amendment Act 1957
Arbitration Clauses (Protocol) and the Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Amendment Act 1957
Arbitration Clauses (Protocol) and the Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Amendment Act 1957
Public Act |
1957 No 44 |
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Date of assent |
24 October 1957 |
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An Act to amend the Arbitration Clauses (Protocol) and the Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Act 1933
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Arbitration Clauses (Protocol) and the Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Amendment Act 1957, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Arbitration Clauses (Protocol) and the Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Act 1933 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Application of Part II of principal Act
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section four, and substituting the following section:
“4
“(1)
This Part of this Act applies to any award made after the twenty-eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-four,—
“(a)
In pursuance of an agreement for arbitration to which the protocol set out in the First Schedule to this Act applies; and
“(b)
Between persons of whom one is subject to the jurisdiction of one of the Powers which the Governor-General, being satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made, by Order in Council declares to be parties to the said Convention, and of whom the other is subject to the jurisdiction of another of those Powers; and
“(c)
In one of such territories as the Governor-General, being satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made, by Order in Council declares to be territories to which the said Convention applies,—
and an award to which this Part of this Act applies is in this Part referred to as a foreign award.
“(2)
Every Order in Council made in the United Kingdom under section one of the Arbitration (Foreign Awards) Act 1930 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which is in force in New Zealand at the date of the commencement of this section shall be deemed to have been duly made under the provisions of this Act, but the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, declare that any such first-mentioned Order in Council shall cease to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand.”