{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1979-repealed-3111997/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1979-repealed-3111997/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/42",
  "legislation_title": "Arbitration Act 1979 (repealed 31.1.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1979-repealed-3111997",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement, repeals and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Arbitration Act 1979.\n(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument; and such an order—\n(a) may appoint different days for different provisions of this Act and for the purposes of the operation of the same provision in relation to different descriptions of arbitration agreement; and\n(b) may contain such supplementary, incidental and transitional provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient.\n(3) In consequence of the preceding provisions of this Act, the following provisions are hereby repealed, namely—\n(a) in paragraph (c) of section 10 of the principal Act the words from “or where” to the end of the paragraph ;\n(b) section 21 of the principal Act;\n(c) in paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to the Administration of Justice Act 1970, in sub-paragraph (1) the words “21(1) and (2)” and sub-paragraph (2).\n(4) This Act forms part of the law of England and Wales only.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "1.8.1979 appointed with saving under s. 8(2) by S.I. 1979/750."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "The text of section 8(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/42/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:11.783634+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}