COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION ACT 2012 (NO. 23 OF 2012) - SECT 40

COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION ACT 2012 (NO. 23 OF 2012) - SECT 40

40 .         Court rules

        (1)         Rules of court may be made 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 Western Australia, for the purposes of 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.