Western Australian Current Regulations

SUPREME COURT (ARBITRATION) RULES 2016 - REG 3

3 .         Terms used

        (1)         In these rules —

        arbitration means an arbitration to which the WA Act or the Commonwealth Act applies, as the case requires;

        Commonwealth Act means the International Arbitration Act 1974 (Commonwealth);

        Form , if followed by a number, means the form of that number in Schedule 1;

        Model Law means the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on 21 June 1985, as amended by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on 7 July 2006, the English text of which is set out in the Commonwealth Act Schedule 2;

        RSC means Rules of the Supreme Court 1971 ;

        WA Act means the Commercial Arbitration Act 2012 .

        (2)         Unless the contrary intention appears —

            (a)         expressions used in this Part have the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Act or the WA Act, as the case requires; and

            (b)         expressions used in Part 2 and in the forms in Schedule 1 referred to in that Part have the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Act; and

            (c)         expressions used in Part 3 and in the forms in Schedule 1 referred to in that Part have the same meaning as in the WA Act.