Mera Samvidhaan All of Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996

Part I · Chapter X · Miscellaneous

40Arbitration agreement not to be discharged by death of party thereto.

Section 40 · Part I · Chapter X · page 27 of the Act

(1) An arbitration agreement shall not be discharged by the death of any party thereto either as respects the deceased or as respects any other party, but shall in such event been forceable by or against the legal representative of the deceased.

(2) The mandate of an arbitrator shall not be terminated by the death of any party by whom he was appointed.

(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any law by virtue of which any right of action is extinguished by the death of a person.

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