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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1950/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1950/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14/27",
  "legislation_title": "Arbitration Act 1950",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1950",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Reference of interpleader issues to arbitration.",
  "text": "Where relief by way of interpleader is granted and it appears to the High Court that the claims in question are matters to which an arbitration agreement, to which the claimants are parties, applies, the High Court may direct the issue between the claimants to be determined in accordance with the agreement.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5 applied (1.5.1996) by S.I. 1996/1022, art. 26"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/27/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:56.463257+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."
  }
}