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| (1) A party to an arbitration agreement pursuant to which an arbitral award is made may, within one year after the expiry of fourteen days of the making of the at award apply to the High Court for the enforcement of the award. |
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| (2) An application to enforce the award shall be accompanies by
| | (a) the original of the award or a duly certified copy of such award ; and | | |
| | (b) the original arbitration agreement under which the award purports to have been made or a duly certified copy of such agreement. | | |
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| (3) If a document or part of a document produced under subsection (2) is written in a language other than the official language of the court or other than in English, there shall be produced with the document a translation in such official language, or in the English language, of that document or that part, as the case may be, certified to be a correct translation. |
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| (4) For the purposes of subsection (2), a translation shall be certified by an official or a sworn translator or by a diplomatic or a consular agent in Sri Lanka of the country in which the award was made or otherwise to the satisfaction of the Court. |
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| (5) A document produced to the court in accordance with this section may upon its production be received by the Court as sufficient evidence of the matters to which it relates. |
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| (6) Where an application is made under subsection (1) of this section and there is no application for the setting aside of such award under section 32 or the court sees no cause to refuse the recognition and enforcement of such award under the provisions contained in sections 33 and 34 of this Act, it shall on a day of which notice shall be given to the parties, proceed to file the award and give judgment according to the award. Upon the judgment so given a decree shall be entered. |
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