Arbitration Act 1940
Section 34
Application for Setting Aside Arbitral Award
(1) Recourse to a Court against an arbitral
award may be made only by an application for setting aside such award in
accordance with sub-section (2) and sub-section (3).
(2) An arbitral award may be set aside by the
Court only if -
(a) the
party making the application furnishes proof that -
( i )
a party was under some incapacity, or
(ii) the arbitration agreement is not valid under the law to
which the parties have subjected it or, failing any indication thereon, under
the law for the time being in force; or
(iii) the party making
the application was not given proper notice of the appointment of an arbitrator
or of the arbitral proceedings or was otherwise unable to present his case; or
(iv) the arbitral
award deals with a dispute not contemplated by or not falling within the terms
of the submission to arbitration, or it contains decisions on matters beyond
the scope of the submission to arbitration : Provided
that, if the decisions on matters submitted to arbitration can be separated
from those not so submitted, only that part of the arbitral award which
contains decisions on matters not submitted to arbitration may be set aside; or
(v) the composition of
the arbitral tribunal or the arbitral procedure was not in accordance with the
agreement of the parties, unless such agreement was in conflict with a
provision of this Part from which the parties cannot derogate, or, failing such
agreement, was not in accordance with this Part; or
(b) the
Court finds that -
( i )
the subject-matter of the dispute is not capable of
settlement by arbitration under the law for the time being in force, or
(ii) the arbitral award is in conflict with the public policy of
India.
Explanation :
Without prejudice to
the generality of sub-clause (ii), it is hereby declared, for the avoidance of
any doubt, that an award is in conflict with the public policy of India if the
making of the award was induced or affected by fraud or corruption or was in
violation of section 75 or section 81.
(3) An application for setting aside may not
be made after three months have elapsed from the date on which the party making
that application had received the arbitral award or, if a request had been made
under section 33, from the date on which that request had been disposed of by
the arbitral tribunal :
Provided that if the Court is satisfied that the
applicant was prevented by sufficient cause from making the application within
the said period of three months it may entertain the application within a further
period of thirty days, but not thereafter.
(4) On receipt of an application under
sub-section (1), the Court may, where it is appropriate and it is so request by
a party, adjourn the proceedings for a period of time determined by it in order
to give the arbitral tribunal an opportunity to resume the arbitral proceedings
or to take such take action as in the opinion of arbitral tribunal will
eliminate the grounds for setting aside the arbitral award.