Chapter I INTRODUCTORY

Short title and extent.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Arbitration Act, 2002.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of the Jammu and Kashmir State.

Definitions.-In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-

1. (a) "arbitration agreement" means a written agreement to submit present or future differences to arbitration; whether an arbitrator is named therein or not;
2. (b) "award" means an arbitration award;
3. (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;
4. (d) "legal representative" has the meaning assigned to this expression in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1977;
5. (e) "reference" means a reference to arbitration.