https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192390 Under the Arbitration Act, 1940, the court's power under section 8(2) was limited to appointing an arbitrator or umpire when the parties failed to do so, and did not include a further jurisdiction to make a reference to that arbitrator. A reference made after such appointment was therefore incompetent. The Court also held that section 30(c) was broad enough to cover invalidity in the reference itself, so an award founded on a reference without jurisdiction was a nullity and could be set aside as otherwise invalid. en-us Fri, 02 Apr 1976 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 29 May 2017 15:43:39 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192390 Under the Arbitration Act, 1940, the court's power under section 8(2) was limited to appointing an arbitrator or umpire when the parties failed to do so, and did not include a further jurisdiction to make a reference to that arbitrator. A reference made after such appointment was therefore incompetent. The Court also held that section 30(c) was broad enough to cover invalidity in the reference itself, so an award founded on a reference without jurisdiction was a nullity and could be set aside as otherwise invalid. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 02 Apr 1976 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=192390