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SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called The Arbitration Act 1940.
(2) It extends to a[the whole of India b[except the State of Jammu and Kashmir].
(3) It shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1940. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(a) "arbitration agreement" means a written agreement to submit present or future differences to arbitration, whether an arbitrator is named therein in or not:
(b) "award" means an arbitration award;
(c) "Court" means a Civil Court having jurisdiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of the reference if the same had been the subject- matter of a suit, but does not, except for the purpose of arbitration proceedings under section 21-, include a Small Cause Court;
(d) "legal representative" means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of the deceased, and, where a party acts in a representative character, the person on whom the estate devolves on the death of the party so acting;
(e) "reference" means a reference to arbitration.