law: Arbitration Act 1940
  Section 2
  Definitions
  (1) In this Part, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires, -
  (a) " arbitration " means any arbitration whether or not
  
  administered by permanent arbitral institution;
  (b) " arbitration  agreement" means an agreement referred to
  
  in section 7;
  (c) " arbitral  award" includes an interim award;
  (d) " arbitral  tribunal" means a sole arbitrator or a panel
  
  of arbitrators;
  (e) "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 to decide the questions forming the
  
  subject-matter of the arbitration 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;
  (f)
  
  "international commercial arbitration" means an arbitration relating
  
  to disputes arising out of legal relationships, whether contractual or not,
  
  considered as commercial under the law in force in India and where at least one
  
  of the parties is -
  ( i )
  
   an  individual who is a national of, or habitually
  
  resident in, any country other than India  ; or
  (ii)  a  body corporate which is incorporated in any country other
  
  than India  ; or
  (iii)  a  company or association or a body of individuals whose
  
  central management and control is exercised in any country other than India  ; or
  (iv)  the  Government of a foreign country;
  (g) "legal
  
  representative" means a person who in law represents the estate of a
  
  deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of
  
  the deceased, and, where a party acts in a representative character, the person
  
  on whom the estate devolves on the death of the party so acting;
  (h) " party " means a party to an arbitration agreement.
  (2) This Party shall apply where the place of
  
  arbitration is in India  .
  (3) This Part shall not affect other law for
  
  the time being in force by virtue of which certain disputes may not be
  
  submitted to arbitration.
  (4) This Part except sub-section (1) of
  
  section 40, sections 41 and 43 shall apply to every arbitration under any other
  
  enactment for the time being in force, as if the arbitration were pursuant to
  
  an arbitration agreement and as if that other enactment were an arbitration
  
  agreement, except in so far as the provisions of this Part are inconsistent
  
  with the other enactment or with any rules made there under.
  (5) Subject to the provisions of sub-section
  
  (4), and save in so far as is otherwise provided by any law for the time being
  
  in force or in any agreement in force between India and any other country or
  
  countries, this Part shall apply to all arbitrations and to all proceedings
  
  relating thereto.
  (6) Where this Part, except section 28, leaves
  
  the parties free to determine a certain issue, that freedom shall include the
  
  right of the parties to authorize any person including an institution, to
  
  determine that issue.
  (7) An arbitral award made under this Part
  
  shall be considered as a domestic award.
  (8) Where this Part -
  ( a )
  
  refers to the fact that the parties have agreed or that they may agree, or
  (b) in any other way
  
  refers to an agreement of the parties, that agreement shall include any
  
  arbitration rules referred to in that agreement.
  (9) Where this Part, other than clause (a) of
  
  section 25 of clause (a) sub-section (2) of section 32, refers to a claim, it
  
  shall also apply to a counterclaim, and where it refers to a defense, it shall
  
  also apply to a defense to that counterclaim.