Malaysia legislation
Section 3
of CONVENTION ON THE RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN ARBITRAL AWARDS ACT 1985
Section 3
S. 2-4]
(2)
Any Convention award which would be enforce-able under this Act shall be treated as binding for all purposes on the persons as between whom it was made and may accordingly be relied upon by any of those persons by way of defence, set-off or otherwise in any legal proceedings in Malaysia and any references in this
Act to enforcing a Convention award shall be construed as including references to relying upon an award.