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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1950/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1950/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14/27",
  "legislation_title": "Arbitration Act 1950",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1950",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Power to correct slips.",
  "text": "Unless a contrary intention is expressed in the arbitration agreement, the arbitrator or umpire shall have power to correct in an award any clerical mistake or error arising from any accidental slip or omission.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 17 applied (1.5.1996) by S.I. 1996/1022, art. 32"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 17 applied with modifications by Industry Act 1975 (c. 68), s. 20(1), Sch. 3 Pt. II para. 14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/27/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:46:10.322696+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}