Arbitration Act 1940
Section 56
Evidence
(1) The party applying for the enforcement of a
foreign award shall, at the time of application produce before the Court -
(a) the
original award or a copy thereof duly authenticated in the manner required by
the law of the country in which it was made;
(b) evidence
proving that the award has become final; and
(c) such
evidence as may be necessary to prove that the conditions mentioned in clauses
(a) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 57 are satisfied.
(2) Where any document requiring to be
produced under sub-section (1) is in a foreign language, the party seeking to
enforce the award shall produce a translation into English certified as correct
by a diplomatic or consular agent of the country to which that party belongs or
certified as correct in such other manner as may be sufficient according to the
law in force in India.
Explanation:
In this section and
all the following sections of this Chapter, "Court" means the
principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction in a district, and includes the
High Court in exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having
jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the award if the same had been the
subject-matter of a suit, but does not include any civil court of a grade
inferior to such principal Civil Court, or any Court of Small Causes.