§29 — Decision making by panel of arbitrators

State amendments

This section has been amended in its application to Jammu and Kashmir. The text above is the central provision and is what applies everywhere else — these amendments are law only in the State that made them.

• Jammu and Kashmir[Vide the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020) and Vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 3774(E), dated (23-10-2020).]Read →Hide

  Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh (UTs).— Amendment of sections 29A.— (a) for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:–– “(1) The award shall be made within a period of twelve months from the date the arbitral tribunal enters upon the reference. Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, an arbitral tribunal shall be deemed to have entered upon the reference on the date on which the arbitrator or all the arbitrators, as the case may be, have received notice, in writing, of their appointment.”; (b) in sub-section (4), omit second and third provisos.

Reproduced from the same official PDF as the section above, as the amending Act words it — not a consolidated State version of the section. Check the source before relying on it.