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            (c) the award does not deal with the differences contemplated by or falling within the terms
        of the submission to arbitration or that it contains decisions on matters beyond the scope of the
        submission to arbitration:
   Provided that if the award has not covered all the differences submitted to the arbitral tribunal, the
Court may, if it thinks fit, postpone such enforcement or grant it subject to such guarantee as the Court
may decide.
    (3) If the party against whom the award has been made proves that under the law governing the
arbitration procedure there is a ground, other than the grounds referred to in clauses (a) and (c) of
sub-section (1) and clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (2)entitling him to contest the validity of the award,
the Court may, if it thinks fit, either refuse enforcement of the award or adjourn the consideration thereof,
giving such party a reasonable time within which to have the award annulled by the competent tribunal.
    58. Enforcement of foreign awards.—Where the Court is satisfied that the foreign award is
enforceable under this Chapter, the award shall be deemed to be a decree of the Court.
    59. Appealable orders.—(1) An appeal shall lie from the order refusing—
        (a) to refer the parties to arbitration under section 54; and
        (b) to enforce a foreign award under section 57,
to the court authorised by law to hear appeals from such order.
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    (2) No second appeal shall lie from an order passed in appeal under this section, but nothing in this
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section shall affect or take away any right to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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    60. Saving.—Nothing in this Chapter shall prejudice any rights which any person would have had of
enforcing in India of any award or of availing himself in India of any award if this Chapter had not been
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                                                 InPART III
                                                CONCILIATION
    61. Application and scope.—(1) Save as otherwise provided by any law for the time being in force
and unless the parties have otherwise agreed, this Part shall apply to conciliation of disputes arising out of
legal relationship, whether contractual or not and to all proceedings relating thereto.
   (2) This Part shall not apply where by virtue of any law for the time being in force certain disputes
may not be submitted to conciliation.
    62. Commencement of conciliation proceedings.—(1) The party initiating conciliation shall send to
the other party a written invitation to conciliate under this Part, briefly identifying the subject of the
dispute.
   (2) Conciliation proceedings, shall commence when the other party accepts in writing the invitation to
conciliate.
    (3) If the other party rejects the invitation, there will be no conciliation proceedings.
    (4) If the party initiating conciliation does not receive a reply within thirty days from the date on
which he sends the invitation, or within such other period of time as specified in the invitation, he may
elect to treat this as a rejection of the invitation to conciliate and if he so elects, he shall inform in writing
the other party accordingly.
    63. Number of conciliators.—(1) There shall be one conciliator unless the parties agree that there
shall be two or three conciliators.
    (2) Where there is more than one conciliator, they ought, as a general rule, to act jointly.
    64. Appointment of conciliators.—(1) Subject to sub-section (2),—
       (a) in conciliation proceedings, with one conciliator, the parties may agree on the name of a sole
    conciliator;
        (b) in conciliation proceedings with two conciliators, each party may appoint one conciliator;
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