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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1996/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1996/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/23",
  "legislation_title": "Arbitration Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arbitration-act-1996",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Award of costs.",
  "text": "(1) The tribunal may make an award allocating the costs of the arbitration as between the parties ....\n(1A) It is irrelevant for the purposes of subsection (1) whether the tribunal has ruled, or a court has held, that the tribunal has no substantive jurisdiction or has exceeded its substantive jurisdiction.\n(2) ... The tribunal shall award costs on the general principle that costs should follow the event except where it appears to the tribunal that in the circumstances this is not appropriate in relation to the whole or part of the costs.\n(3) Subsections (1), (1A) and (2) are subject to any agreement of the parties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 61(1) omitted (1.8.2025) by virtue of Arbitration Act 2025 (c. 4), ss. 6(2), 17(2); S.I. 2025/905, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 61(1A) inserted (1.8.2025) by Arbitration Act 2025 (c. 4), ss. 6(3), 17(2); S.I. 2025/905, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 61(2) omitted (1.8.2025) by virtue of Arbitration Act 2025 (c. 4), ss. 6(4), 17(2); S.I. 2025/905, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 61(3) inserted (1.8.2025) by Arbitration Act 2025 (c. 4), ss. 6(5), 17(2); S.I. 2025/905, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/23/section/61",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:08.783387+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."
  }
}