S.I. No. 41/2000 - Arbitration Act, 1980 (New York Convention) Order, 2000.

1. This Order may be cited as the Arbitration Act, 1980 (New York Convention) Order, 2000.

2. It is hereby declared that each state specified in the Schedule to this Order is a party to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards done at New York on 10 June, 1958.

3. The Arbitration Act, 1980 (New York Convention) Order, 1983 (S.I. 350 of 1983), is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Algeria

Costa Rica

Israel

Antigua and Barbuda

Côte d'Ivoire

Italy

Argentina

Croatia

Japan

Armenia

Cuba

Jordan

Australia

Cyprus

Kazakhstan

Austria

Czech Republic

Kenya

Bahrain

Denmark

Kuwait

Bangladesh

Djibouti

Kyrgyzstan

Barbados

Dominica

Lao People's

Belarus

Ecuador

Democratic Republic

Belgium

Egypt

Latvia

Benin

El Salvador

Lebanon

Bolivia

Estonia

Lesotho

Bosnia and

Finland

Lithuania

Herzegovina

France

Luxembourg

Botswana

Georgia

Madagascar

Brunei Darussalam

Germany

Malaysia

Bulgaria

Ghana

Mali

Burkina Faso

Greece

Mauritania

Cambodia

Guatemala

Mauritania

Cameroon

Guinea

Mexico

Canada

Haiti

Monaco

Central African

Holy See

Mongolia

Republic

Hungary

Morocco

Chile

India

Mozambique

China

Indonesia

Nepal

Colombia

Ireland

Netherlands

New Zealand

San Marino

Trinidad and Tobago

Niger

Saudi Arabia

Tunisia

Nigeria

Senegal

Turkey

Norway

Singapore

Uganda

Oman

Slovakia

Ukraine

Pakistan

Slovenia

United Kingdom

Panama

South Africa

United Republic of

Paraguay

Spain

Tanzania

Peru

Sri Lanka

United States of

Philippines

Sweden

America

Poland

Switzerland

Uruguay

Portugal

Syrian Arab Republic

Uzbekistan

Republic of Korea

Thailand

Venezuela

Republic of Moldova

The Former Yugoslav

Vietnam

Romania

Republic of

Yugoslavia

Russian Federation

Macedonia

Zimbabwe.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 4th day of February 2000.

BRIAN COWEN, T.D.,

Minister for Foreign Affairs.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The effect of this Order is to specify the states which are parties to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, done at New York on 10 June, 1958.

I, BRIAN COWEN, T.D., Minister for Foreign Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 6

, subsections (2) and (3) of the

Arbitration Act, 1980

(No. 7 of 1980), hereby order as follows:—