6. c. 27) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated and amended arbitration law in England and Wales.

[1] This is principally to preserve the enforcement mechanism for awards made under the (now largely obsolete) Geneva Protocol (1924).

The main purpose of the Act was to consolidate and rationalise the prior statutes regulating arbitration.

However the 1950 Act became increasingly subject to criticism because of the power of the courts to review arbitration awards under section 21.

That section required the arbitration tribunal to make a "statement of case" on any matter of law which was reviewable by the court.