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6 PART I PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Arbitration Act 2001 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

"appointing authority" means the appointing authority designated under section 13 (8) or (9);

"arbitral tribunal” means a sole arbitrator or a panel of arbitrators or an arbitral institution;

"arbitration agreement" has the meaning given to it in section 4;

"award" means a decision of the arbitral tribunal on the substance of the dispute and includes any interim, interlocutory or partial award but excludes any orders or directions made under section 28;

"Court" means the High Court in Singapore;

"court", for the purposes of sections 6, 7, 8, 11 (1), 55, 56 and 57, means the High Court, District Court, Magistrate's Court or any other court in which the proceedings referred to in those sections are instituted or heard;

"party" means a party to an arbitration agreement or, in any case where an arbitration does not involve all of the parties to the arbitration agreement, means a party to the arbitration;

"the place of the arbitration" means the juridical seat of the arbitration designated by—
 * (a) the parties to the arbitration agreement;
 * (b) any arbitral or other institution or person authorised by the parties for that purpose; or