New Zealand Acts

ARBITRATION ACT 1996

- As at 30 January 2021
- Act 99 of 1996

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      Short Title and commencement
   2.      Interpretation
   3.      Further provision relating to interpretation
   4.      Act to bind the Crown
   5.      Purposes of Act
   6A.     Minister of Justice to appoint body to resolve certain matters
   6.      Rules applying to arbitrations in New Zealand
   7.      Arbitrations and awards outside New Zealand
   8.      Provisions applying where place of arbitration not agreed or determined
   9.      Arbitration under other Acts
   10.     Arbitrability of disputes
   10A.    Arbitration of trust matters
   11.     Consumer arbitration agreements
   12.     Powers of arbitral tribunal in deciding disputes
   13.     Liability of arbitrators
   14.     Application of sections 14A to 14I
   14A.    Arbitral proceedings must be private
   14B.    Arbitration agreements deemed to prohibit disclosure of confidential information
   14C.    Limits on prohibition on disclosure of confidential information in section 14B
   14D.    Arbitral tribunal may allow disclosure of confidential information in certain circumstances
   14E.    High Court may allow or prohibit disclosure of confidential information if arbitral proceedings have been terminated or party lodges appeal concerning confidentiality
   14F.    Court proceedings under Act must be conducted in public except in certain circumstances
   14G.    Applicant must state nature of, and reasons for seeking, order to conduct court proceedings in private
   14H.    Matters that court must consider in determining application for order to conduct court proceedings in private
   14I.    Effect of order to conduct court proceedings in private
   15.     Certificates concerning parties to the Conventions
   16.     Rules
   17.     Amendments to other Acts
   18.     Repeals
   19.     Transitional provisions
   20.     Act passed in substitution for Arbitration Act 1908
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