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Commercial Arbitration Act 2017
27AParties may obtain subpoenas
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27A Parties may obtain subpoenas
(1) The court may, on the application of any party, and subject to and in
accordance with rules of court, issue a subpoena requiring a person—
(a) to attend for examination before the arbitral tribunal; or
(b) to produce to the arbitral tribunal the documents specified in the
subpoena; or
(c) to do both of those things.
(2) A party may only make an application to the court under
subsection (1) with the permission of the arbitral tribunal.
(3) A person must not be compelled under any subpoena issued in
accordance with subsection (1) to answer any question or produce any
document that the person could not be compelled to answer or
produce in a proceeding before the court.
Note There is no equivalent to this section in the Model Law.