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1925 c. 49.

Effect of registration.

CH. 41 Arbitration (International Investment Disputes)

Act 1966

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(5) If at the date of the application for registration the niary obligations imposed by the award have been partly sa fied, the award shall be registered only in respect of the balance and accordingly if those obligations have then been wholly sat fied, the award shall not be registered.

(6) The power to make rules of court under section 99 the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 shall include power-

(a) to prescribe the procedure for applying for registration under this section, and to require an applicant to give prior notice of his intention to other parties,

(b) to prescribe the matters to be proved on the application and the manner of proof, and in particular to require the applicant to furnish a copy of the award certified pursuant to the Convention.

(c) to provide for the service of notice of registration

the award by the applicant on other parties,

and in this and the next following section “prescribed " meani prescribed by rules of court

(7) For the purposes of this and the next following section- (a) "award" shall include any decision interpreting, revis

ing or annulling an award, being a decision pursuant toj the Convention, and any decision as to costs which under the Convention is to form part of the award, (b) an award shall be deemed to have been rendered pur

suant to the Convention on the date on which certified! copies of the award were pursuant to the Convention! dispatched to the parties.

(8) This and the next following section shall bind the Crown: (but not so as to make an award enforceable against the Crown in a manner in which a judgment would not be enforceable: against the Crown).

2.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, an award regis tered under section 1 above shall, as respects the pecuniary obligations which it imposes, be of the same force and effect for the purposes of execution as if it had been a judgment of the High Court given when the award was rendered pursuant to the Convention and entered on the date of registration unde this Act, and, so far as relates to such pecuniary obligations

(a) proceedings may be taken on the award,

(b) the sum for which the award is registered shail cany

interest.

(c) the High Court shall have the same control over the

execution of the award,

as if the award had been such a judgment of the High Court.

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