The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996
Any foreign award which would be enforceable under this Chapter shall be treated as binding for all purposes on the persons as between whom it was made, and may accordingly be relied on by any of those persons by way of defence, set off or otherwise in any legal proceedings in India and any references in this Chapter to enforcing a foreign award shall be construed as including references to relying on an award.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (26 of 1996), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1978/1/a199626.pdf, 690,365 bytes, sha256 a3b936d5…) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-30. The same handle also carries a Hindi edition (h199626.pdf) — the English 'a'-prefixed file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history and the Schedules (First–Seventh, incl. the New York and Geneva Convention texts) excluded; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.
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