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The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996

§65Submission of statements to conciliator

(1) The conciliator, upon his appointment, may request each party to submit to him a brief written statement describing the general nature of the dispute and the points at issue. Each party shall send a copy of such statement to the other party. (2) The conciliator may request each party to submit to him a further written statement of his position and the facts and grounds in support thereof, supplemented by any documents and other evidence that such party deems appropriate. The party shall send a copy of such statement, documents and other evidence to the other party. (3) At any stage of the conciliation proceedings, the conciliator may request a party to submit to him such additional information as he deems appropriate. Explanation.—In this section and all the following sections of this Part, the term "conciliator" applies to a sole conciliator, two or three conciliators, as the case may be.

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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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