Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 — back to Table of Contents
Section 56. Evidence
(1) The party seeking to enforce a foreign award shall, at the time of the application, produce before the Court—
- (a) the original award or a copy thereof duly authenticated as prescribed by the law of the country in which it was made;
- (b) evidence proving that the award has become final; and
- (c) such evidence as may be necessary to prove that the conditions mentioned in clauses (a) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 57 are satisfied.
(2) Where any document requiring to be produced under sub-section (1) is in a foreign language, the party seeking to enforce the award shall produce a translation into English certified as correct by a diplomatic or consular agent of the country to which that party belongs or certified as correct in such other manner as may be sufficient according to the law in force in India.
Explanation — In this section and in the sections following in this Chapter, “Court” means the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction in a district, and includes the High Court in exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jurisdiction over the subject matter of the award if the same had been the subject-matter of a suit, but does not include any Civil Court of a grade inferior to such principal Civil Court, or any Court of Small Causes.
