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INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION ACT 1974 - SECT 18

Court or authority taken to have been specified in Article 6 of the Model Law

             (1)  A court or authority prescribed for the purposes of this subsection is taken to have been specified in Article 6 of the Model Law as a court or authority competent to perform the functions referred to in Article 11(3) of the Model Law.

             (2)  A court or authority prescribed for the purposes of this subsection is taken to have been specified in Article 6 of the Model Law as a court or authority competent to perform the functions referred to in Article 11(4) of the Model Law.

             (3)  The following courts are taken to have been specified in Article 6 of the Model Law as courts competent to perform the functions referred to in Articles 13(3), 14, 16(3) and 34(2) of the Model Law:

                     (a)  if the place of arbitration is, or is to be, in a State--the Supreme Court of that State;

                     (b)  if the place of arbitration is, or is to be, in a Territory:

                              (i)  the Supreme Court of that Territory; or

                             (ii)  if there is no Supreme Court established in that Territory--the Supreme Court of the State or Territory that has jurisdiction in relation to that Territory;

                     (c)  in any case--the Federal Court of Australia.



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