The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996
47. Evidence.
1.
The
party applying for the enforcement of a foreign award shall, at the time of the
application, produces 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. the original
agreement for arbitration or a duly certified thereof; and
c. such evidence as may
he necessary to prove that the award is a foreign award.
1.
2.
If
the award or agreement 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.