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ARBITRATION

Made 31st July 1984

Coming into Operation 1st August 1984

At the Court at Buckingham Palace the 31st day of July 1984

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas a Convention on the Execution of Foreign Arbitral Awards (hereinafter called “the Geneva Convention”) ^f1 was, on 26th September 1927, signed at Geneva on behalf of His Late Majesty King George the Fifth:

And whereas it is provided by section 35(1) of the Arbitration Act 1950 that Part II of that Act (which provides for the enforcement of certain foreign awards under the Geneva Convention ) applies to any award made after 28th July 1924—

1. (a)

   in pursuance of an agreement for arbitration to which the Protocol set out in the First Schedule to that Act applies; and

2. (b)

   between persons of whom one is subject to the jurisdiction of some one of such Powers as Her Majesty, being satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made, may by Order in Council declare to be parties to the Geneva Convention, and of whom the other is subject to the jurisdiction of some other of the Powers aforesaid; and

3. (c)

   in one of such territories as Her Majesty, being satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made, may by Order in Council declare to be territories to which the Geneva Convention applies:

And whereas Her Majesty is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made:

And whereas a Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (hereinafter called “the New York Convention”) ^f2 adopted on 10th June 1958 entered into force for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 23rd December 1975:

And whereas it is provided by section 7(2) of the Arbitration Act 1975(which Act provides for the enforcement of foreign awards under the New York Convention ) that if Her Majesty by Order in Council declares that any State specified in the Order is a party to the New York Convention the Order shall, while in force, be conclusive evidence that that State is a party to that Convention:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon Her by section 35(1) and (2) of the Arbitration Act 1950 and section 7(2) and (3) of the Arbitration Act 1975, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased to declare, and it is hereby declared, as follows: