law: The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996
  45. Power of judicial
  
  authority to refer parties to arbitration.
  Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in Part I or in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of
  
  1908), a judicial authority, when seized of an action in a matter in respect of
  
  which the parties have made an agreement referred to in section 44, shall, at
  
  the request of one of the parties or any person claiming through or under him,
  
  refer the parties to arbitration, unless it finds that the said agreement is
  
  mill and void, inoperative or incapable of bring performed.