Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION ACT 2017 - SECT 40

    (1)     Rules of court may be made under the Court Procedures Act 2004

for carrying the purposes of this Act into effect and, in particular, for or with respect to the following:

        (a)     applications to a court under this Act and the costs of such applications;

        (b)     the payment or bringing of money into and out of a court in satisfaction of claims to which arbitration agreements apply and the investment of that money;

        (c)     the examination of witnesses before a court or before any other person and the issue of commissions or requests for the examination of witnesses outside the Territory, for an arbitration;

        (d)     offers of compromise in relation to claims to which arbitration agreements apply;

        (e)     any other matter or thing for or with respect to which rules are by this Act authorised or required to be made by a court.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not limit the rule-making powers conferred on a court by any other Act.

Note     There is no equivalent to this section in the Model Law.