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INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION ACT 1974 - SECT 23H

Death of a party to an arbitration agreement

  (1)   If a party to an arbitration agreement dies:

  (a)   the agreement is not discharged (either in respect of the deceased or any other party); and

  (b)   the authority of an arbitral tribunal is not revoked; and

  (c)   the arbitration agreement is enforceable by or against the personal representative of the deceased.

  (2)   Nothing in subsection   ( 1) is taken to affect the operation of any enactment or rule of law by virtue of which a right of action is extinguished by the death of a person.


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