es shall take into \r\n												account any list of fees issued \r\n												by the Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Where the Centre has not \r\n												issued a list of fees for \r\n												arbitrators in international \r\n												cases, a party may at any time \r\n												request the Centre to furnish a \r\n												statement that sets out the \r\n												basis for establishing fees \r\n												which is customarily followed in \r\n												international cases in which the \r\n												Centre appoints arbitrators and \r\n												if the Centre consents to \r\n												provide that statement, the \r\n												arbitral tribunal in fixing its \r\n												fees shall take the information \r\n												into account. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Except as provided in \r\n												subrule (6), the costs of \r\n												arbitration shall be borne by \r\n												the unsuccessful party, except \r\n												that the arbitral tribunal may \r\n												apportion each of the costs \r\n												between the parties, if it \r\n												determines that apportionment is \r\n												reasonable taking into account \r\n												the circumstances of the case.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) With respect to the costs of \r\n												legal representation and \r\n												assistance referred to in \r\n												subrule <i>(1)(e), </i>the \r\n												arbitral tribunal, taking into \r\n												account the circumstances of the \r\n												case, may determine which party \r\n												shall bear the cost or any \r\n												apportion of the costs betwefl1 \r\n												the parties, if it determines \r\n												that apportionment is \r\n												reasonable. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) When an arbitral tribunal \r\n												issues an order for the \r\n												termination of arbitral \r\n												proceedings or makes an award on \r\n												agreed terms, it shall fix the \r\n												costs of arbitration. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(8) No additional fees shall be \r\n												charged by an arbitral tribunal \r\n												for interpretation or correction \r\n												or completion of its ward under \r\n												rules 40, 41 and 42. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Deposits of costs </span></b>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												44. (1) An arbitral tribunal, on \r\n												its appointment, may request \r\n												each party to deposit an equal \r\n												amount as an advance for the \r\n												costs referred to in rule <i>43 \r\n												(1)(a), (b) </i>and <i>(c). </i>\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) During the course of the \r\n												arbitral proceedings the \r\n												arbitral tribunal may request \r\n												supplementary deposits from the \r\n												parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Where a party requests, and \r\n												the Centre consents to provide a \r\n												list of fees, the arbitral \r\n												tribunal shall fix the amounts \r\n												of any deposits or supplementary \r\n												deposits only after consultation \r\n												with the Centre which may make \r\n												any comments it considers \r\n												appropriate to the arbitral \r\n												tribunal concerning the amount \r\n												of deposits and supplementary \r\n												deposits. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 8.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) If the required deposits are \r\n												not paid in full within thirty \r\n												days after the receipt of the \r\n												request, the arbitral tribunal \r\n												shall inform the parties in \r\n												order that one or the other \r\n												party may make the required \r\n												payment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 8.8pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) If payment is not made, the \r\n												arbitral tribunal may order the \r\n												suspension or termination of the \r\n												arbitral proceedings. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) After the award has been \r\n												made, the tribunal shall render \r\n												an account to the parties of the \r\n												deposits received and return any \r\n												unexpended balance to the \r\n												parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												THIRD SCHEDULE</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: 33.55pt">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												EXPEDITED .ARBITRATION \r\n												PROCEEDINGS RULES OF THE CENTRE</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: 33.55pt">\r\n												<b><i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(Section 60)</span></i></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Notice </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 4.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. (1) Notice to a party and \r\n												the Centre may be by telephone, \r\n												fax, e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">­mail, \r\n												or other mode of electronic \r\n												communication. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.8pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A notice by telephone shall \r\n												be confirmed in writing but a \r\n												failure to confirm the notice in \r\n												writing shall not invalidate \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Appointment of arbitrator in \r\n												expedited arbitration </span>\r\n												</b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												2. (1) If the claim or \r\n												counterclaim does not exceed \r\n												US$100,OOO or its cedi \r\n												equivalent, the Centre shall \r\n												upon the submission of the \r\n												dispute by a party appoint a \r\n												sole arbitrator from the \r\n												register of arbitrators of the \r\n												Centre upon the payment of the \r\n												applicable fee. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Where the claim or \r\n												counterclaim in issue exceeds \r\n												US$100,OOO or its cedi \r\n												equivalent; or whatever the \r\n												claim or subject matter, the \r\n												parties agree to the resolution \r\n												of the issue by expedited \r\n												arbitration procedure, the \r\n												Centre shall upon the \r\n												notification under subrule 1(1) \r\n												submit to the parties at the \r\n												same time an identical list of \r\n												five arbitrators upon payment by \r\n												the applicant of the prescribed \r\n												fee. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Where a list is submitted to \r\n												the parties as provided under \r\n												subrule (2) each party shall \r\n												peremptorily strike out two \r\n												names on the list and number the \r\n												arbitrators left on the list in \r\n												order of preference and return \r\n												the list to the Centre within \r\n												seven days of receipt of the \r\n												list. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The Centre shall upon the \r\n												receipt of the list appoint a \r\n												single arbitrator from the \r\n												returned list. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.8pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) If an arbitrator cannot be \r\n												appointed from the list, the \r\n												Centre shall without further \r\n												reference to the parties appoint \r\n												an arbitrator from the register.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) The Centre shall, whatever \r\n												the claim to which the expedited \r\n												procedure is applied, give \r\n												notice of the appointment of an \r\n												arbitrator to the parties who \r\n												shall within three days of \r\n												receipt of the notice commu</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">­nicate \r\n												their objection to the \r\n												appointment, if any, to the \r\n												Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) An objection to an \r\n												arbitrator by telephone shall be \r\n												confirmed in writing to the \r\n												Centre with copies to the other \r\n												party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(8) If the appointment of an \r\n												arbitrator is objected to, the \r\n												Centre shall decide whether to \r\n												retain that arbitrator or \r\n												appoint a new arbitrator. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Date, time and place of hearing</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #373F34">3.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">(1) \r\n												The arbitrator shall determine \r\n												the date, time and place of \r\n												hearing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) he Centre shall give \r\n												notice of the time of hearing to \r\n												the parties not later than seven \r\n												days before the hearing date.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Except where the dispute is \r\n												to be resolved by the submission \r\n												of documents, the hearing shall \r\n												be completed within one day.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Where thee is sufficient \r\n												reason for doing so, the \r\n												arbitrator schedule an \r\n												additional hearing to he held \r\n												within three day&#8217;s of the end of \r\n												hearing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Time for award </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												4. Except the parties otherwise \r\n												decide, the arbitrator shall \r\n												make an award within seven days \r\n												from the close of hearing.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												FOURTH SCHEDULE</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												MEDIATION RULES OT THE CENTRE</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Submission of dispute for \r\n												mediation</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(Section 66 (33) )</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 5.7pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												1. (1) A party to a dispute \r\n												whether or not there is a \r\n												mediation agreement in respect \r\n												of that dispute may initiate \r\n												mediation with the Centre by\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 5.45pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												filing 2 copies of a submission \r\n												for mediation with <b>the </b>\r\n												Centre; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												paying the prescribed fee; and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.3pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												serving each of the parties to \r\n												the dispute with a copy of the \r\n												submission. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A submission shall contain\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a statement of the nature of the \r\n												dispute, and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.3pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the names, addresses and \r\n												telephone numbers of the parties \r\n												to the dispute. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Reference to mediation by court\r\n												</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												2. (1) A court before which an \r\n												action is pending may at any \r\n												stage <b>in </b>the proceedings, \r\n												if it is of the view that \r\n												mediation will facilitate \r\n												resolution of the matter or part \r\n												of the matter in dispute, and \r\n												the parties desire mediation by \r\n												the Centre, refer the matter or \r\n												that part of the matter to the \r\n												Centre for mediation. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 129.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A reference under rule (1) \r\n												shall state <i>(a) </i>the \r\n												nature of the dispute; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 105.3pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the monetary value of <i>the </i>\r\n												claim; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 105.3pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the remedy sought </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												and shall have attached copied \r\n												of the pleadings and any other \r\n												documents the court considers \r\n												relevant. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A reference under this rule \r\n												shall serve as a stay of \r\n												proceedings of the court action.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Where a reference leads to a \r\n												settlement of the dispute or a \r\n												part of the dispute, the \r\n												settlement shall be </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												filed in the court; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 24.65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												recorded by the court as a \r\n												judgment of the court; and <i>\r\n												(c) </i>enforce by the court as \r\n												its judgment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Submission of dispute for \r\n												mediation </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												1. (1) A party to a dispute \r\n												whether or not there is a \r\n												mediation agreement in respect \r\n												of that dispute may initiate \r\n												mediation with the Centre by\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												filing 2 copies of a submission \r\n												for mediation with the Centre;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												paying the prescribed fee; and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												serving each of the parties to \r\n												the dispute with a copy of the \r\n												submission. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A submission shall contain\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a statement of the nature of the \r\n												dispute, and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the names, addresses and \r\n												telephone numbers of the parties \r\n												to the dispute. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Reference <i>to </i>mediation by \r\n												court </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												2. (1) A court before which an \r\n												action is pending may at any \r\n												stage in the proceedings, if it \r\n												is of the view that mediation \r\n												will facilitate resolution of \r\n												the matter or part of the matter \r\n												in dispute, and the parties \r\n												desire mediation by the Centre, \r\n												refer the matter or that part of \r\n												the matter to the Centre for \r\n												mediation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 130.25pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A reference under rule (1) \r\n												shall state <i>(a) </i>the \r\n												nature of the dispute; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 106.0pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the monetary value of the claim; \r\n												and <i>(c) </i>the remedy sought\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												and shall have attached copied \r\n												of the pleadings and any other \r\n												documents the court considers \r\n												relevant. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A reference under this rule \r\n												shall serve as a stay of \r\n												proceedings of the court action.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Where a reference leads to a \r\n												settlement of the dispute or a \r\n												part </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 174.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												of the dispute, the settlement \r\n												shall be <i>(a) </i>filed in the \r\n												court; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 26.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												recorded by the court as i;l \r\n												judgment of the court; and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 26.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												enforce by the court as its \r\n												judgment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Where the reference does not \r\n												lead to a settlement, the court \r\n												shall continue with the \r\n												proceedings from the point where \r\n												the reference was made. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Appointment of mediator </span>\r\n												</b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												3. (1) The Centre on receipt of \r\n												a submission shall appoint a \r\n												qualified person registered with \r\n												the Centre to serve as a \r\n												mediator in the dispute. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Where the parties name a \r\n												mediator or specify a method of \r\n												appointing a mediator in an \r\n												agreement, the Centre shall \r\n												appoint the person named or \r\n												follow the specified method.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Unless the parties agree \r\n												otherwise, the Centre shall \r\n												appoint only one person to serve \r\n												as mediator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Mediator with interest </span>\r\n												</b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												4. Except by the written consent \r\n												of the parties, the Centre shall \r\n												not appoint a person to serve as \r\n												a mediator in it dispute if that \r\n												person has a financial or \r\n												personal interest in the outcome \r\n												of the dispute. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Disclosure by mediator </span>\r\n												</b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												.5. </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(1) A person appointed a \r\n												mediator shall disclose any \r\n												circumstance relating to that \r\n												person that is likely to </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												create a presumption of bias: or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												affect the conduct of mediation \r\n												before accepting the \r\n												appointment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Where a disclosure is made \r\n												under subruIe (1), the Centre \r\n												shall within seven days of the \r\n												disclosure inform the parties.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) If a party upon being \r\n												informed of a disclosure objects \r\n												to the proposed mediator, the \r\n												Centre shall appoint another \r\n												mediator in substi</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">­tution.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Termination of appointment for \r\n												delay </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												6. The Centre may replace a \r\n												mediator who falls to start work \r\n												promptly. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Filling of vacancy in mediation\r\n												</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												7. Unless the parties otherwise \r\n												agree, the Centre s hall appoint \r\n												another mediator to replace a \r\n												mediator who is unable to \r\n												perform or vacates the post.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Powers of mediator </span></b>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												8. (1) A mediator shall do \r\n												everything necessary to help the \r\n												parties to satisfactorily \r\n												resolve their dispute. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The mediator may conduct \r\n												joint or separate meetings with \r\n												the parties and make \r\n												recommendations for settlement.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The mediator may where \r\n												necessary and if the parties \r\n												agree to pay the expenses, \r\n												obtain expert advice on \r\n												technical aspects of the dis</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">­pute.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) A request for the services \r\n												of an expert may be made by the \r\n												me</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">­diator \r\n												or by a party with the consent \r\n												of the mediator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) A mediator may end the \r\n												mediation whenever the mediator \r\n												is of the opinion that further \r\n												mediation between the parties \r\n												would not help resolve the \r\n												dispute between the parties.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Representation in mediation\r\n												</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												9. (1) A party may be \r\n												represented by a lawyer, an \r\n												expert or any other person \r\n												chosen by the party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party shall communicate in \r\n												writing to the Centre and the \r\n												other party the name and address \r\n												of any representative within \r\n												seven days of the \r\n												representative''s appointment.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Date, time and place </span></b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												of mediation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(1) The mediator shall \r\n												determine the date and time of \r\n												each mediation session. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Subject to the mediator \r\n												choosing a convenient place, the \r\n												Cen</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">­tre \r\n												with the agreement of the \r\n												parties, shall determine the \r\n												place for the mediation. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Identification of issues in \r\n												dispute </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												11. Not later than eight days \r\n												before the first mediation \r\n												session, each party shall \r\n												present to the Centre and the \r\n												other party, a memorandum \r\n												setting out the party''s position \r\n												with regard to the issues which \r\n												require resolution. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Presentation of relevant \r\n												documents and information </span>\r\n												</b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												12. A party shall present \r\n												documents and information \r\n												required for the resolution of \r\n												the dispute to the mediator at \r\n												the first mediation session.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Attendance at mediation </span>\r\n												</b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												13. Except where the parties \r\n												agree and the mediator consents, \r\n												a person who is not a <i>party\r\n												</i>to the mediation shall <i>\r\n												not </i>attend a mediation \r\n												session </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Confidentiality of mediation\r\n												</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												14. (1) Records, reports and the \r\n												rather documents required in the \r\n												course of mediation shall be \r\n												confidential. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A mediator shall not \r\n												disclose confidential \r\n												information given in the course \r\n												of the mediation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 112.8pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A party to a mediation shall \r\n												not rely on </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 112.8pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the record of the mediation;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 77.75pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any evidence adduced at the \r\n												mediation; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 77.75pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												information obtained during the \r\n												mediation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												as evidence in court \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Suggestions by parties for \r\n												settlement of dispute </span>\r\n												</b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												15. Each party may, on that \r\n												party''s own initiative or at the \r\n												invitation of the mediator, \r\n												submit to the mediator \r\n												suggestions for the settlement \r\n												of the dispute. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												End of mediation </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												16. (1) A mediation ends when\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parties execute a settlement \r\n												agreement; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the mediator makes a written \r\n												declaration to the effect that \r\n												further mediation is not \r\n												worthwhile; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a party makes a written \r\n												declaration to the effect (hat \r\n												the mediation is terminated.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The settlement at a \r\n												mediation is binding on the \r\n												parties only where the parties \r\n												so agree. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Exclusion </span></b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												of liability </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												17. (1) The Centre or a, \r\n												mediator is not a necessary \r\n												party in any court proceedings \r\n												relating to the mediation.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The Centre or a mediator is \r\n												not liable to a party for an act \r\n												or omission in respect of a \r\n												mediation under this Act. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Mediation expenses </span></b>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #000100">18.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">(1) \r\n												A party to a mediation shall pay \r\n												the expenses of its witnesses.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) The parties shall \r\n												equally pay the expenses of the \r\n												mediation including the expenses \r\n												of </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the mediator; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95in">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the representative of the Centre \r\n												(if any); and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95in">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) witnesses and experts called \r\n												by the mediator. \r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: 123.3pt">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n												FIFTH \r\n												SCHEDULE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n												</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: 4.25pt">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												ARBITRATION CLAUSES OR \r\n												AGREEMENTS (SAMPLES)</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: 4.25pt">\r\n												<b><i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(Section </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												2 (3))</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Clause referring future disputes \r\n												to arbitration </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												1. Any dispute or difference \r\n												between the parties in \r\n												connection with this agreement \r\n												shall be referred to \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Clause referring future disputes \r\n												to a single arbitrator to be \r\n												appointed by an appointing \r\n												authority </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												2. Any dispute or difference \r\n												between the parties in \r\n												connection with this agreement \r\n												shall be referred to and \r\n												determined by a sole arbitrator \r\n												to </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; be \r\n												appointed by \r\n												........................ (name \r\n												of the appointing authority).\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Arbitration agreement referring \r\n												future disputes to a single \r\n												arbitrator </span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												3. (1) Any dispute or difference \r\n												between the parties in \r\n												connection with this agreement \r\n												shall be referred to and \r\n												determined by a sole </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n												arbitrator ................... \r\n												(name of the arbitrator) and the \r\n												arbitration shall </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; be held \r\n												in ..................... (place \r\n												of arbitration). </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The arbitrator shall be \r\n												appointed by agreement between \r\n												the parties or in default of \r\n												agreement by the parties, be \r\n												determined by the appointing \r\n												authority. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) In the event of default by \r\n												either party in respect of any \r\n												proce</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">­dural \r\n												order made by the arbitrator, \r\n												the arbitrator may proceed with \r\n												the arbitration in the absence \r\n												of that party and deliver the \r\n												arbitration award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Clause referring future disputes \r\n												to two arbitrators </span></b>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												4. Any dispute or difference \r\n												between the parties in \r\n												connection with this agreement \r\n												shall be referred to and \r\n												determined by two arbitrators, \r\n												one to be appointed by each \r\n												party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Arbitration agreement referring \r\n												future disputes to two \r\n												arbitrators and an umpire </span>\r\n												</b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												5. (1) Any dispute or difference \r\n												between the parties in \r\n												connection with this agreement \r\n												shall be referred to and \r\n												determined by two arbitrators,\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and the \r\n												arbitration shall be held in:.&quot; \r\n												.................. (place of \r\n												arbitration). (2) Each party \r\n												shall appoint one arbitrator, \r\n												and the arbitrators so \r\n												,appointed shall appoint an \r\n												umpire. The umpire shall attend \r\n												all hearings, including \r\n												preliminary meetings, but shall \r\n												not be called upon to act unless \r\n												the arbitrators appointed by the \r\n												parties fail to agree. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) If either party fails to \r\n												appoint an arbitrator within \r\n												seven clear days after the other \r\n												party has appointed an \r\n												arbitrator and has served the \r\n												defaulting party with a notice \r\n												to make the appointment, the \r\n												party who has appointed an \r\n												arbitrator is entitled to \r\n												appoint that arbitrator to act \r\n												as sole arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The procedure to be followed \r\n												in the arbitration shall be \r\n												agreed upon by the parties or, \r\n												in default of agreement, \r\n												determined by the arbi</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">­trators \r\n												or, if necessary, by the umpire.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) In the event of default by \r\n												either party in respect of any \r\n												proce</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">­dural \r\n												order made by the arbitrators or \r\n												umpire, the arbitrators or \r\n												umpire may proceed with the \r\n												arbitration in the absence of \r\n												that party and to deliver the \r\n												award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<b>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Clause referring future disputes \r\n												to a tribunal of three \r\n												arbitrators &nbsp;</span></b></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												7(1) any dispute or difference \r\n												between the parties in \r\n												connection&nbsp; with this agreement \r\n												shall referred</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> \r\n												to and determined by &nbsp;the \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n												in &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (place of \r\n												arbitration) by&nbsp; a tribunal of 3 \r\n												arbitrator Each party shall \r\n												appoint one arbitrator and the \r\n												third arbitrator shall be \r\n												appointed by agreement&nbsp; so \r\n												appointed , or in default of \r\n												agreement between them \r\n												by&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;(the· appointing \r\n												authority).</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The arbitral tribunal shall \r\n												consist of three arbitrators and \r\n												shall be constituted as follows:\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the claimant shall nominate an \r\n												arbitrator and may by notice in \r\n												writing </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												call on the other party to \r\n												nominate an arbitrator within \r\n												days of the notice, failing \r\n												which the second within \r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; days of the notice, \r\n												failing which the second \r\n												arbitrator shall at the request \r\n												of the claimant be appointed by \r\n												&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.(the appointing \r\n												authority).</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the third arbitrator [who shall \r\n												serve as umpire of the tribunal] \r\n												shall be appointed by agreement \r\n												between the two arbitrators \r\n												appointed under <i>(a) </i>or, \r\n												in default of agreement within \r\n												... &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; days of the appointment \r\n												of the second arbitrator, on the \r\n												nomination of.. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (the \r\n												appointing authority) at the \r\n												written request of either or \r\n												both of the parties, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												where a vacancy arises because \r\n												any arbitrator dies or resigns, \r\n												refuses to act, or [in the \r\n												opinion of the other arbitrators \r\n												or the appointing authority] \r\n												becomes incapable of performing \r\n												the functions of office, the \r\n												vacancy shall be filled by the \r\n												method by which that arbitrator \r\n												was originally appointed. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The procedure to be followed \r\n												in the arbitration shall be \r\n												agreed by the parties or, in \r\n												default of agreement, determined \r\n												by the tribunal. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) In the event of default by \r\n												either party in respect of any \r\n												procedural order made by the \r\n												tribunal, the tribunal shall \r\n												have power to proceed with the \r\n												arbitration in the absence of \r\n												that party and to deliver its \r\n												award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Any award or procedural \r\n												decision of the tribunal shall \r\n												if necessary be made by a \r\n												majority vote. In the absence of \r\n												a majority vote the umpire shall \r\n												make an award or procedural \r\n												decision as if the umpire were a \r\n												sole arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="MsoNormal">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n              </tbody>\r\n            </table>\r\n          </td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n  <td width="76" height="50" bgcolor="#003366"></table></td>\r\n        </tr>\r\n', 'Fourth', 'Yes', 'ACT 795');
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(127, 'THE COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1993', '\n                    <table height="1" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="3" width="1338" border="0" id="table3">\n						<tr>\n							<td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1332" height="1">\n							<a href="../table%20of%20cases%204th%20Republic.htm">\n                            </p>\n							<h2 style="text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial">\n							&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></h2>\n							<h3><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt">\n							THE FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOURTH</span></b></h3>\n							<h1><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt">ACT</span></h1>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:7.9pt;margin-right:149.6pt;\nmargin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b>\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">OF THE \n							PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></b></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:149.6pt;\nmargin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b>\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">\n							ENTITLED</span></b></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.3pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">THE \n							COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1993</span></b></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:15.6pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">AN ACT \n							to amend the Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459).</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">DATE \n							OF ASSENT: <i>30th December, </i>1993</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b>\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">BE IT \n							ENACTED</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial"> \n							by Parliament as follows- </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:9.6pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">1. (1) \n							Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the \n							Jurisdiction Courts Act, the Circuit Court \n							established under the Courts Act, 1993 by Circuit \n							(Act 459) shall in addition to its jurisdiction in \n							civil matters have Court. and exercise the \n							jurisdiction in criminal matters conferred on the \n							Circuit Tribunal under section 44 (1) and (2) of the \n							Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459). </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n							(2) The Circuit Court shall in the exercise of its \n							jurisdiction under subsection (1) of this section, \n							have all the powers vested in the Circuit Court in \n							existence immediately before the coming into &quot; force \n							of the Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459) in respect of \n							criminal matters. </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.95pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp; 2. A \n							person aggrieved by a decision or order of the \n							Circuit Court Appeals </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.7pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;<i>(a)</i> \n							in a civil matter appeal to the Court of Appeal; and \n							Court.</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.7pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">&nbsp;<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;<i>(b)\n							</i>in a criminal matter appeal to the High Court on \n							a question of law or fact against the acquittal, \n							conviction or sentence other than a sentence fixed \n							by law. </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:24.95pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n							3. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in \n							the Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459), the District Court \n							Grade I in existence immediately before the coming \n							into force of the said Act shall have and exercise \n							the jurisdiction conferred on the Community \n							Tribunals under sections 47 and 48 of the Courts \n							Act, 1993. </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n							4. (1) A person aggrieved by a judgment, decision or \n							order of the </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.2pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">\n							District Court in a civil cause or matter may appeal \n							to the High Court against the judgment, decision or \n							order. </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.85pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.85pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n							(2) The prosecution or a person convicted of an \n							offence by a District Court may appeal to the High \n							Court on a question of law or fact against the \n							acquittal, conviction or sentence other than a \n							sentence fixed by law.</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.85pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 135.0pt">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">.5. \n							The Courts Act, 1993 <i>{Act </i>459) shall apply \n							subject to such modification as may&nbsp; be necessary to \n							give effect to this Act. ,</span></p>\n                        	<p align="justify">\n                        </td>\n						</tr>\n					</table>\n                    </td>\n                </tr>\n              </tbody>\n            </table>\n', 'Fourth', 'Yes', 'Act 459'),
(128, 'THE COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2002 ', '\n                    <table height="1" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="3" width="1338" border="0" id="table3">\n						<tr>\n							<td vAlign="top" align="left" width="1332" height="1">\n							<a href="../table%20of%20cases%204th%20Republic.htm">\n                            </p>\n							<h2 style="text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial">\n							&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></h2>\n							<h3><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt">\n							THE FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOURTH</span></b></h3>\n							<h1><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt">ACT</span></h1>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:7.9pt;margin-right:149.6pt;\nmargin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b>\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">OF THE \n							PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></b></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:149.6pt;\nmargin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b>\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">\n							ENTITLED</span></b></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:10.3pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">THE \n							COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1993</span></b></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:15.6pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">AN ACT \n							to amend the Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459).</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">DATE \n							OF ASSENT: <i>30th December, </i>1993</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:11.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b>\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">BE IT \n							ENACTED</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial"> \n							by Parliament as follows- </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:9.6pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">1. (1) \n							Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the \n							Jurisdiction Courts Act, the Circuit Court \n							established under the Courts Act, 1993 by Circuit \n							(Act 459) shall in addition to its jurisdiction in \n							civil matters have Court. and exercise the \n							jurisdiction in criminal matters conferred on the \n							Circuit Tribunal under section 44 (1) and (2) of the \n							Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459). </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n							(2) The Circuit Court shall in the exercise of its \n							jurisdiction under subsection (1) of this section, \n							have all the powers vested in the Circuit Court in \n							existence immediately before the coming into &quot; force \n							of the Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459) in respect of \n							criminal matters. </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.8pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.95pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp; 2. A \n							person aggrieved by a decision or order of the \n							Circuit Court Appeals </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.7pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;<i>(a)</i> \n							in a civil matter appeal to the Court of Appeal; and \n							Court.</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.7pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">&nbsp;<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;<i>(b)\n							</i>in a criminal matter appeal to the High Court on \n							a question of law or fact against the acquittal, \n							conviction or sentence other than a sentence fixed \n							by law. </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:24.95pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n							3. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in \n							the Courts Act, 1993 (Act 459), the District Court \n							Grade I in existence immediately before the coming \n							into force of the said Act shall have and exercise \n							the jurisdiction conferred on the Community \n							Tribunals under sections 47 and 48 of the Courts \n							Act, 1993. </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:5.25pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n							4. (1) A person aggrieved by a judgment, decision or \n							order of the </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.2pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">\n							District Court in a civil cause or matter may appeal \n							to the High Court against the judgment, decision or \n							order. </span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.85pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.85pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \n							(2) The prosecution or a person convicted of an \n							offence by a District Court may appeal to the High \n							Court on a question of law or fact against the \n							acquittal, conviction or sentence other than a \n							sentence fixed by law.</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:2.85pt;margin-right:149.6pt;margin-bottom:\n0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;</span></p>\n							<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 135.0pt">\n							<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial">.5. \n							The Courts Act, 1993 <i>{Act </i>459) shall apply \n							subject to such modification as may&nbsp; be necessary to \n							give effect to this Act. ,</span></p>\n                        	<p align="justify">\n                        </td>\n						</tr>\n					</table>\n                    </td>\n                </tr>\n              </tbody>\n            </table>\n', 'Fourth', 'Yes', 'Act 459'),
(129, 'THE COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT- 2004', '\r\n											<table height="1" width="1411" border="1" id="table6">\r\n												<tr>\r\n													<td width="1331" height="1">\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align: right; line-height: 12.95pt">\r\n													<b>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													ACT 674&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></b>\r\n													</p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal">\r\n													<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">\r\n													&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n													</span><b>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n													THE SIX HUNDRED AND \r\n													SEVENTY-FOURTH</span></b></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n													<b>\r\n													<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial">\r\n													ACT</span></b></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n													<b>\r\n													<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial">\r\n													OF THE </span>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC</span></b></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n													<b>\r\n													<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial">\r\n													OF GHANA</span></b></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													ENTITLED </span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700">\r\n													THE COURTS (AMENDMENT) ACT- \r\n													2004</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 9.0pt" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													/\\N ACT to amend the Courts \r\n													Ac11993 (Act 459) to enable \r\n													non-lawyers who have the \r\n													requisite limited training \r\n													in law to be appointed \r\n													District Magistrates to \r\n													rectify identified omission \r\n													and repetition in the Courts \r\n													Act and to provide for \r\n													related purposes.</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 91.4pt; margin-right: 20.6pt" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													DATE OF ASSENT: <i>1st \r\n													November; 2004</i></span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 20.6pt" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													BE IT EN ACTED by Parliament \r\n													as follows</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 20.6pt" align="justify">\r\n													<b>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													Act 459 amended</span></b></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 12.45pt; margin-right: 20.6pt" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													The Courts Act 1993 (Act \r\n													459) as amended is further \r\n													amended as fo11ows</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin: 6.0pt 0in" align="justify">\r\n													<i>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>(a)</b> </span></i>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													in section 46, by the \r\n													substitution for subsection \r\n													(I ) of the following.</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin: 6.0pt 0in" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;<b>Qualification \r\n													of a Magistrate and sitting \r\n													of the District Court</b></span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin: 6.0pt 0in" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													&nbsp;&nbsp; (<b>46.</b> 1) A person \r\n													does not qualify to be \r\n													appointed a magistrate</span>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													of a District Court unless \r\n													the person is of high moral \r\n													character and proven \r\n													integrity and</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin: 6.0pt 0in" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i) is a \r\n													lawyer, or</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin: 6.0pt 0in" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (ii) is a \r\n													person with such judicial or \r\n													legal knowledge as the Chief \r\n													Justice shall on the advice \r\n													of the Judicial Council</span>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													determine&quot;;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n													</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin: 6.0pt 0in" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b><i>(b)</i></b><i> </i>\r\n													in section 15, by the \r\n													insertion after sub section \r\n													as follows:</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.75pt" align="justify">\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													&quot;(la) For the purposes of \r\n													paragraph (c) order \r\n													requiring a person to enter \r\n													into sentence&quot;; and</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .2pt">\r\n													<i>\r\n													<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial">\r\n													&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>(c)</b> </span></i>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													in section 47( 1), by the \r\n													repeal of paragraph (h)</span></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .2pt">\r\n													&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>\r\n													<span style="font-family: Arial">\r\n													Date of Gazette \r\n													notification: 12th November \r\n													2004</span></b></p>\r\n													<p class="MsoNormal">\r\n													<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial">\r\n													GOVERNMENT PRINTER. ASSEMBLY \r\n													PRESS. ACCRA.</span></td>\r\n												</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n', 'Fourth', 'Yes', 'Act 459');
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(130, 'Alternative Dispute Resolution Act, 2010 Act 798', '<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n                                            <td vAlign="top" align="justify" width="1344" height="64">\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n                                              <p class="Style" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:700">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n												Alternative Dispute Resolution \r\n												Act, 2010 \r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Act 798</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 53.75pt; margin-right: 26.6pt" align="center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:700">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ARRANGEMENT OF \r\n												SECTIONS </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 53.75pt" align="center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-weight:700">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n												PART ONE--ARBITRATION </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: center">&nbsp;\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-left: 53.75pt; margin-right: 26.6pt" align="center">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Arbitration \r\n												agreement</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 26.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black">\r\n												Section</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 26.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black">\r\n												1.Application </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 26.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black">\r\n												2. Form of arbitration agreement\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 26.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black">\r\n												3. Separation of arbitration \r\n												agreement and revocation of \r\n												agreement </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 26.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black">\r\n												4. Arbitration agreement not \r\n												discharged by drat, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 26.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black">\r\n												5. Reference to arbitration\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 26.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black">\r\n												6. Application to court </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 26.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black">\r\n												7 .Reference by court </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;8 Change in claim or \r\n												counterclaim. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												9. Modification of time </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												10. Reckoning of time </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												11. Place of arbitration.</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Qualification and appointment of \r\n												arbitrators</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												12.</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												</span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Qualification of arbitrators</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												13. Number of arbitrators</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												14. Appointment of arbitrators</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Impartiality and challenge of \r\n												arbitrators</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												15. Impartiality and challenge \r\n												of arbitrators</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												16, Challenge of Appointment \r\n												procedure</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Revocation of arbitrators \r\n												authority</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												17. Renovation of arbitrators \r\n												authority</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												18. Renovation of arbitrators \r\n												authority by the High Court.</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												19. Registration of arbitrator</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												20. Death of arbitrator or \r\n												person who appointed the \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												2L. Filling of vacancy </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												22.</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> \r\n												Fees for arbitrators</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												23. Immunity of arbitrator</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Arbitral Tribunal</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												24<i>. &nbsp;</i>Competence to rule \r\n												on jurisdiction </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												25. Objection to jurisdiction\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												26 . Application to High Court \r\n												on jurisdiction </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												27. Waiver of right </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												28. Rights of party not notified \r\n												of arbitral proceedings </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Arbitral processes </span></i>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">29.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Arbitration \r\n												management conference </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">30.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Conciliation \r\n												conference </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												31 Duties and powers of \r\n												arbitrator in proceedings </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">32.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Language \r\n												of proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">33.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Statement \r\n												of claim and defence </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">34.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The \r\n												arbitration hearing </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">35.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Taking \r\n												of evidence in presence of \r\n												pantes </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">36.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Filing \r\n												of documents and other evidence \r\n												after hearing </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">37.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Notice \r\n												of Investigation</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">38.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Interim \r\n												Reliefs</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">39.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Power \r\n												of the High Court to support \r\n												arbitral proceeding</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">40.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Determination \r\n												of preliminary point of law\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 11.05pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												41. Mode and Substance of \r\n												evidence</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="margin-right: 11.05pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												42. Representation</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #495147">43.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Appointment \r\n												of expert </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">44.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Postponement \r\n												of hei11ill~ </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">45.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Closing \r\n												of hearing </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">46.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Re-opening \r\n												of hearing </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">47.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Settlement \r\n												before concJLlsiul1 of \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">48.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Rules \r\n												for the award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">49.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Form \r\n												and content of arbitral award\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #495147">50.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Scope \r\n												of award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">51.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Assessment \r\n												of &nbsp;fess and compensation </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6C7063">52.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Effect \r\n												of award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												53 Correction of&nbsp; or addition to \r\n												award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #585F53">54.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Liability \r\n												and waiver </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #38433C">55.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Expenses\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #38433C">56.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Power \r\n												to withhold award in case of \r\n												non-payment </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Powers of the High Court in \r\n												relation to award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #38433C">57.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Enforcement \r\n												of the award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #38433C">58.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Challenge \r\n												of award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #38433C">59.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Enforcement \r\n												of foreign awards </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #38433C">60.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Expedited \r\n												arbitration proceedings </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												61 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Modification of Centre \r\n												Rules </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												62. Effect of expedited \r\n												proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #38433C">63.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Submission \r\n												to mediation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #585F53">64.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Reference \r\n												to mediation by court </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6F7465">65.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Number \r\n												of mediators </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #8B8E7D">66.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Appointment \r\n												of mediator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #8B8E7D">67.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Mediator \r\n												with interest </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												68 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Disclosure by mediator\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6F7465">69.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Termination \r\n												of appointment for delay </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #8B8E7D">70.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Filling \r\n												of vacancy in mediation </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #8B8E7D">71.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Representation \r\n												in mediation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #585F53">72.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Date, \r\n												time and place of mediation\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #585F53">73.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Identification \r\n												of issues in dispute </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6F7465">74.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Powers \r\n												of mediator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6F7465">75.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Administrative \r\n												assistance </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6F7465">76.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Communication \r\n												between mediator and parties\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6F7465">77.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Attendance \r\n												at mediation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #585F53">78.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Disclosure \r\n												of information </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #585F53">79.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Confidentiality \r\n												of mediation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #38433C">80.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">End \r\n												of mediation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6F7465">81.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Settlement \r\n												agreement </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #8B8E7D">82.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Status \r\n												and effect of settlement \r\n												agreement </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">83.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Resort \r\n												to arbitral or judicial \r\n												proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">84.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Role \r\n												of mediator in other proceedings\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">85.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Admissibility \r\n												of evidence in other proceedings\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">86.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Exclusion \r\n												of liability </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">87.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Mediation \r\n												expenses </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">88.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Deposits\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">89.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Submission \r\n												to customary arbitration </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">90.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Agreement \r\n												to submit to customary \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">91.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Reference \r\n												by court to customary \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">92.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Qualification \r\n												of customary arbitrator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">93.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Rules \r\n												of customary arbitration </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">94.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Registration \r\n												of dispute with the Centre\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">95.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Number \r\n												of customary arbitrators </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #7E8272">96.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Appointment \r\n												of customary arbitrator by \r\n												Centre </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #7E8272">97.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Notice \r\n												of appointment of customary \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #9E9F8C">98.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Disclosure \r\n												by a customary arbitrator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #7E8272">99.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Challenge \r\n												of a customary arbitrator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">\r\n												100.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Revocation \r\n												of customary arbitrator''s \r\n												appointment </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">\r\n												101.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Resignation \r\n												of customary arbitrator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">\r\n												102.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Death \r\n												of customary arbitrator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">\r\n												103.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Filling \r\n												of vacancy in customary \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #2E372F">\r\n												104.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Place, \r\n												date and time of first customary \r\n												arbitration session </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">\r\n												105.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Withdrawal \r\n												from customary arbitration\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">\r\n												106.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Language \r\n												of proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">\r\n												107.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Time \r\n												for customary award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">\r\n												108.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Form \r\n												of customary award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #444C42">\r\n												109.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Effect \r\n												of customary award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">\r\n												110.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Registration \r\n												of customary award Ill. \r\n												Enforcement of customary award\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">\r\n												111.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Setting \r\n												aside customary award </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #5B6155">\r\n												112.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Negotiation \r\n												for a settlement </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												PART FOUR-ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE \r\n												RESOLUTION CENTRE </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												114.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Establishment \r\n												of Alternative Dispute \r\n												Resolution Centre </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												115.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Object \r\n												and functions of the Centre\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												116.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Independence \r\n												of Centre </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #1A251F">\r\n												117.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Board \r\n												of governors </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												118.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Tenure \r\n												of office of members of the \r\n												Board </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												119.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Allowance \r\n												of members of the Board </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #1A251F">\r\n												120.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Meetings \r\n												of the Board </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												121.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Disclosure \r\n												of interest by Board member\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												122.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Committees \r\n												of the Board </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #4A5348">\r\n												123.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Registration \r\n												of arbitrators and mediators\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #4A5348">\r\n												124.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Regional \r\n												and district offices of the \r\n												Centre </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												PART FIVE-FINANCIAL, \r\n												ADMINISTRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS \r\n												PROVISIONS </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #4A5348">\r\n												125.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Establishment \r\n												of Alternative Dispute \r\n												Resolution Fund </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #6A7062">\r\n												126.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Objects \r\n												of the Fund </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												127 Management of the Fund\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												128.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Functions \r\n												of the Board in relation to the \r\n												Fund </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												129.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Executive \r\n												Secretary </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #4A5348">\r\n												130.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Appointment \r\n												of other staff </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												131.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Delegation \r\n												of power of appointment </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												132.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Accounts \r\n												and Audit </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												133.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Annual \r\n												reports </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #303C35">\r\n												134.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Regulations\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #4A5348">\r\n												135.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Interpretation\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #4A5348">\r\n												136.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Modification \r\n												of court rules </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #4A5348">\r\n												137.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Repeals \r\n												and savings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #4A5348">\r\n												138.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Transitional \r\n												provisions </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ACT \r\n												798</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												ACT</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE \r\n												REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												ENTITLED</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION \r\n												ACT, 2010</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												An Act to </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												provide for the settlement of \r\n												disputes by arbitration. \r\n												mediation and customary \r\n												arbitration, to establish an \r\n												Alternative dispute Resolution \r\n												Centre and to provide for \r\n												related matters. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												DATE OF ASSENT: 31<sup>st </sup>\r\n												day of May 2010</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												PASSED by Parliament and \r\n												assented to by the President:\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												PART ONE -- ARBITRATION </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Application </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												1. This Act applies to matters \r\n												other than those that relate to\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;<i>(a) </i>the national or \r\n												public interest; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the environment; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the enforcement and \r\n												interpretation of the \r\n												Constitution; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any other matter that by law \r\n												cannot be settled by an \r\n												alternative dispute resolution \r\n												method. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Form of arbitration agreement\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												2. (1) Parties to a written \r\n												agreement may provide that a \r\n												dispute arising under the \r\n												agreement shall be resolved by \r\n												arbitration.</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;(2) A provision to submit a \r\n												dispute to arbitration may be in \r\n												the form of an arbitration \r\n												clause in the agreement or in \r\n												the form of a sepa­rate \r\n												agreement. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) An arbitration agreement \r\n												shall be in writing and may be \r\n												in the form provided in the \r\n												Fifth Schedule to this Act.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp; (4) For the purpose of this \r\n												Act an arbitration agreement is \r\n												in writing </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												it is made by exchange of \r\n												communications in writing \r\n												in­cluding exchange of letters, \r\n												telex, fax, e-mail or other \r\n												means of communication which \r\n												provide a record of the \r\n												agree­ment; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												there is an exchange of \r\n												statement of claim and defence \r\n												in which the existence of the \r\n												agreement is alleged by one \r\n												party and not denied by the \r\n												other. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Separation of arbitration \r\n												agreement and revocation of \r\n												agreement </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												3. (1) Unless otherwise agreed \r\n												by the parties, an arbitration \r\n												agreement which forms or is \r\n												intended to form part of another \r\n												agreement, shall not be regarded \r\n												as invalid, non existent or \r\n												ineffective because that other \r\n												agreement is invalid or did not \r\n												come into existence or has \r\n												become ineffective and shall for \r\n												that purpose be treated as a \r\n												distinct agreement. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Unless a contrary intention \r\n												is expressed in the agreement, \r\n												an arbitration agreement is \r\n												irrevocable except by agreement \r\n												of the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Arbitration agreement not \r\n												discharged by death </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												4. An arbitration agreement is \r\n												not discharged by the death of \r\n												the person or the dissolution or \r\n												merger of the body corporate \r\n												which is a party to that \r\n												agreement and it is enforceable \r\n												by or against the personal \r\n												representative, liquidator or \r\n												successor of the party. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Reference to arbitration </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												5. (1) A party to a dispute in \r\n												respect of Which there is an \r\n												arbitration agreement may, \r\n												subject to the terms of the \r\n												arbitration agreement, refer the \r\n												dispute to </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any person or institution for \r\n												arbitration; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the Alternative Dispute \r\n												Resolution Centre established \r\n												under Part IV to facilitate the \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Where reference is made to a \r\n												person or institution other than \r\n												the Centre the procedure and \r\n												rules shall be as the parties \r\n												and arbitrators determine.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) Where a reference \r\n												is made to the Centre, the Rules \r\n												set out in Regulations made \r\n												under this Act shall apply to \r\n												the arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Application to court </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												6. (1) Where there is an \r\n												arbitration agreement and a \r\n												party commence an action in a \r\n												court, the other party may on \r\n												entering appearance, and 0 \r\n												notice to the party who \r\n												commenced the action in court, \r\n												apply to the court to refer the \r\n												action or a part of the action \r\n												to which the arbitration \r\n												agreement relates, to \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The court on hearing an \r\n												application ·made under \r\n												subsection (1 shall, if \r\n												satisfied that the matter in \r\n												respect of which the application \r\n												ha been made is a matter in \r\n												respect of which there is an \r\n												arbitration agreement, refer the \r\n												matter to arbitration. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The grant of an application \r\n												shall serve as stay of the \r\n												proceedings in the court. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Unless otherwise agreed to \r\n												by the parties, where \r\n												proceedings in court are stayed \r\n												for the purpose of arbitration, \r\n												any security given, propcl1j \r\n												detained, injunction or \r\n												restraining orders imposed in \r\n												the original action shall apply \r\n												to the arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Reference by court </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												7. (1) Where a court before \r\n												which an action is pending is of \r\n												the \\''le\\ that the action or a \r\n												part of the action can be \r\n												resolved through arbitration \r\n												that court may with the consent \r\n												of the parties in writing, \r\n												despite that there is no \r\n												arbitration agreement in respect \r\n												of the matter in dispute, refer \r\n												the action or any part of the \r\n												action for arbitration. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) A reference under \r\n												subsection (1) shall state\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>(a) </i>the \r\n												reasons for the reference;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the nature of the dispute;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the monetary value of the claim; \r\n												and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the remedy sought </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												and shall have attached copies \r\n												of the pleadings and any other \r\n												documents the court considers \r\n												relevant to it. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Where at the time of \r\n												reference under this section \r\n												pleadings are closed, the \r\n												pleadings shall be deemed to be \r\n												the claim, defense, reply, \r\n												counterclaim and defense to \r\n												counterclaim as the case may be \r\n												in the arbitration proceedings.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) For the purpose of a \r\n												reference under this section the \r\n												plaintiff in the original action \r\n												shall be the claimant and the \r\n												defendant shall be the \r\n												respondent in the arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Where in any action before a \r\n												court the court realises that \r\n												the action is the subject of an \r\n												arbitration agreement, the court \r\n												shall stay the proceedings and \r\n												refer the parties to \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Change in claim or counterclaim\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												8. (1) A party may make a new \r\n												claim or counterclaim or change \r\n												a defence by writing to the \r\n												other party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The procedure in relation to \r\n												change in claim or counterclaim \r\n												shall be as determined by the \r\n												parties and the arbitrators or \r\n												the parties may adopt the Rules \r\n												set out in the Second Schedule \r\n												to this Act. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Modification of time </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												9. Where an arbitration \r\n												agreement or this Act fixes a \r\n												time for taking </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any step in an arbitration or \r\n												other dispute resolution \r\n												proceedings, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>(a) </i>the \r\n												parties, by agreement; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator, with the \r\n												agreement of the parties; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the appointing authority, at the \r\n												request of a party for good \r\n												cause shown </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												may modify that period of time, \r\n												except that an arbitrator or the \r\n												appointing authority shall not \r\n												extend the time for making an \r\n												award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Reckoning of time </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												10. Parties to an arbitration \r\n												may agree on a method of \r\n												reckoning any period of time in \r\n												relation to the arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Place of arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #474D3F">11.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">(1) \r\n												The parties are free to agree on \r\n												the place of arbitration. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) In the absence of an \r\n												agreement the place of \r\n												arbitration shall be determined \r\n												by the arbitral tribunal which \r\n												shall take into account the \r\n												cir­cumstances of the case and \r\n												the convenience of the parties.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Despite the other provisions \r\n												of this section, the arbitral \r\n												tribunal may, unless otherwise \r\n												agreed by the parties, meet at \r\n												any place it considers suitable \r\n												after consultation among its \r\n												members, for hearing witnesses, \r\n												the parties, experts or for the \r\n												inspection of documents, goods \r\n												or other items. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Qualification and appointment of \r\n												arbitrator </span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Qualification of arbitrator\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												12. (1) An arbitrator shall be a \r\n												person appointed by the parties \r\n												or by a person or institution \r\n												acting under a power conferred \r\n												by the parties and may be a \r\n												person with the experience or \r\n												qualification that the parties \r\n												may agree on. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A person without experience \r\n												or qualification relevant to the \r\n												subject of the dispute may be \r\n												appointed an arbitrator if the \r\n												parties so agree. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A person of any nationality \r\n												may be appointed an arbitrator \r\n												unless otherwise determined by \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) In appointing an arbitrator, \r\n												the parties, the person or the \r\n												insti­tution vested with the \r\n												power of appointment shall have \r\n												regard to </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the personal, proprietary, \r\n												fiduciary or financial interest \r\n												of the arbitrator in the matter \r\n												to which the arbitration \r\n												relates; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the relationship of the \r\n												arbitrator to a party or counsel \r\n												of a party to the arbitration;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the nationalities of the \r\n												parties; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												other relevant considerations\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												to ensure the appointment of an \r\n												independent and an impartial \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) A person appointed an \r\n												arbitrator shall before \r\n												acceptance, dis­close to the \r\n												parties or the appointing \r\n												authority any information likely \r\n												to affect the neutrality of the \r\n												arbitration, particularly with \r\n												regard to that arbitrator''s \r\n												interest in any case involving \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;Number of arbitrators </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 13. (1) The parties are at \r\n												liberty to determine the number \r\n												of arbitrator&#8217;s except that the \r\n												number must be an uneven number.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Failing the determination as \r\n												provided in subsection (1), the \r\n												arbitration shall consist of \r\n												three arbitrators. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Appointment of arbitrator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												14. (1) Except otherwise \r\n												provided in the arbitration \r\n												agreement, the parties are at \r\n												liberty to agree on the \r\n												procedure for appointing an \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;(2) Where </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitration agreement does \r\n												not provide for a procedure for \r\n												appointing an arbitrator; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parties fail to agree on a \r\n												procedure for appointing an \r\n												arbitrator and the arbitration \r\n												agreement does not provide for \r\n												the settling of the \r\n												disagreement, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												each party, in an arbitration \r\n												which requires the appointment \r\n												of three arbitrators, shall \r\n												appoint one arbitrator and the \r\n												two appointed arbitrators, shall \r\n												appoint the third arbitrator who \r\n												shall be the chairperson. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) For the purposes of section \r\n												13 and subsection (2) of this \r\n												section where </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a party fails to appoint an \r\n												arbitrator within fourteen days \r\n												from the receipt of a request to \r\n												do so from the other party; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the two appointed arbitrators \r\n												fail to agree on the third \r\n												arbitrator within fourteen days \r\n												from the date of their \r\n												appointment, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the appointment shall be made by \r\n												the appointing authority upon a \r\n												request by a party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) In an arbitration which \r\n												requires the appointment of a \r\n												sole arbitrator, if the parties \r\n												fail to agree on the arbitrator \r\n												within fourteen days after the \r\n												receipt of a request for \r\n												arbitration by one party from \r\n												the other party, the appointment \r\n												shall be made by the appointing \r\n												authority upon a request by a \r\n												party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Despite any provision in \r\n												this section, parties are free \r\n												to agree on what should happen \r\n												in the event of a failure of the \r\n												procedure to appoint \r\n												arbitrators. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) A party may for the purpose \r\n												of appointing an arbitrator \r\n												request for the register of \r\n												arbitrators maintained by the \r\n												Centre and the Centre shall \r\n												comply with the request. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) An appointing authority may \r\n												keep a register of arbitrators \r\n												and mediators which may be \r\n												accessed by the public. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Impartiality \r\n												and challenge of arbitrator</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Impartiality \r\n												and challenge of arbitrator\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												15. (1) Where a person is \r\n												requested to be an abitrator, \r\n												that person shall disclose in \r\n												writing any circumstances likely \r\n												to give reasonable cause to \r\n												doubt as to the independence or \r\n												impartiality of that person.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) An arbitrator, from the time \r\n												of appointment and throughout \r\n												the arbitral proceedings shall \r\n												without delay, disclose to the \r\n												parties in writing any \r\n												circumstances referred to in \r\n												subsection (1). </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) An arbitrator''s appointment \r\n												may be challenged only if </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												circumstances exist that give \r\n												rise to reasonable cause to \r\n												doubt as to the arbitrator''s \r\n												independence or impartiality; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator does not possess \r\n												the qualification agreed on by \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) A party may not challenge an \r\n												arbitrator appointed by the \r\n												party or in whose appointment \r\n												that party participated, except \r\n												for reasons of which the party \r\n												becomes aware subsequent to the \r\n												appointment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Challenge of appointment \r\n												procedure </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												16. (1) Subject to subsection \r\n												(2), the parties are free to \r\n												agree on a procedure for \r\n												challenging the appointment of \r\n												an arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Unless otherwise agreed upon \r\n												in accordance with subsection \r\n												(1), a party challenging the \r\n												appointment of an arbitrator, \r\n												shall within fifteen days of \r\n												becoming aware of the \r\n												constitution of the arbitral \r\n												tribu­nal or after becoming \r\n												aware of circumstances that \r\n												justify the challenge of the \r\n												appointment of an arbitrator, \r\n												submit a written statement of \r\n												the reasons for the challenge to \r\n												the arbitrator and any other \r\n												arbitrators. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Unless the arbitrator whose \r\n												appointment is challenged, \r\n												with­draws from the arbitration \r\n												or the other party to the \r\n												arbitration agrees to the \r\n												challenge, the arbitral tribunal \r\n												shall decide on the challenge \r\n												but in the case of a sole \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												where the arbitrator is \r\n												appointed by an appointing \r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;authority, the appointing \r\n												authority shall decide on the \r\n												challenge, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												where the arbitrator is \r\n												appointed by a party the party \r\n												challenging the arbitrator may \r\n												apply to the High Court for [he \r\n												determination of the challenge.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Where a sole arbitrator''s \r\n												appointment is successfully \r\n												challenged the sole arbitrator \r\n												shall cease to be the arbitrator \r\n												for the case. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Where the challenge of an \r\n												arbitrator is from both parties, \r\n												the appointing authority shall \r\n												replace the arbitrator. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Revocation of arbitrator''s \r\n												authority</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Revocation \r\n												of arbitrator''s authority </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												17. (1) The parties may agree on \r\n												the circumstances under which \r\n												the appointment of an arbitrator \r\n												may be revoked. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) Unless the parties \r\n												have agreed on the circumstances \r\n												for revo­cation, the authority \r\n												of an arbitrator terminates if,\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator withdraws from \r\n												office as an arbitrator; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parties acting jointly or by \r\n												the appointing authority vested \r\n												by the parties with the power \r\n												for the purpose, terminates the \r\n												appointment; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator fails to sit \r\n												within a reasonable time. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The revocation of the \r\n												authority of an arbitrator by \r\n												the parties acting jointly shall \r\n												be in writing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Revocation of arbitrator''s \r\n												authority by the High Court\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												18. (1) The High Court may on an \r\n												application on notice by a party \r\n												to an arbitration remove an \r\n												arbitrator where it considers it \r\n												fit. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The Court may make an order \r\n												to remove an arbitrator where\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												there is sufficient reason to \r\n												doubt the impartiality of the \r\n												arbi­trator; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator does not possess \r\n												the qualifications or \r\n												experi­ence required under the \r\n												arbitration agreement or agreed \r\n												to by the parties; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator is physically or \r\n												mentally incapable or there is \r\n												justifiable doubt as to the \r\n												arbitrator''s capability to \r\n												conduct the proceedings; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator has refused or \r\n												failed to </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(i) conduct the arbitral \r\n												proceedings properly; or </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(ii) use reasonable despatch in \r\n												conducting the proceedings or \r\n												making an award &nbsp;and substantial \r\n												injustice has or will be caused \r\n												to the applicant. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Where the parties have by \r\n												agreement vested the power of \r\n												removal of an arbitrator in an \r\n												appointing authority, the Court \r\n												shall not entertain the \r\n												application unless it is \r\n												satisfied that the applicant has \r\n												prior to the application, \r\n												exhausted the available \r\n												recourse. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) An application under \r\n												subsection (2) shall operate as \r\n												a stay of arbitral proceedings.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) The arbitrator may make \r\n												representation to the Court in \r\n												re­spect of the application.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) Where the Court upon \r\n												conclusion of the hearing of the \r\n												ap­plication, removes <i>the \r\n												arbitrator, it may make any \r\n												orders that it consid­</i>ers \r\n												appropriate for payment of fees\r\n												<i>and </i>expenses of the \r\n												arbitrator or the repayment by \r\n												the arbitrator of any fees or <i>\r\n												expenses already </i>paid to the \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Vacancy in the Arbitral Tribunal</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Resignation \r\n												of arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												19. (1) The parties may agree \r\n												with the arbitrator, in the \r\n												event of the resignation of the \r\n												arbitrator, on the fees or \r\n												expenses and relief for any \r\n												liability incurred by the \r\n												arbitrator. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(2) If there is no agreement \r\n												under subsection (1), an \r\n												arbitrator who resigns may on \r\n												notice to the parties, apply to \r\n												the appointing authority if any \r\n												or the High Court for </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												relief from any liability \r\n												incurred; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												an order in respect of \r\n												entitlement to fees or expenses.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Where there is an appointing \r\n												authority, an application under \r\n												subsection (1) shall first be \r\n												made to the appointing \r\n												authority. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) If the Court or the \r\n												appointing authority finds the \r\n												resignation of the arbitrator \r\n												reasonable, it may grant relief \r\n												on such terms as it thinks \r\n												appropriate. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) An arbitrator who is \r\n												dissatisfied with a decision of \r\n												the Court or the appointing \r\n												authority in respect of an \r\n												application for a relief or an \r\n												order, may </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												in the case of an application to \r\n												the Court, appeal to the Court \r\n												of Appeal; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												in the case of an appointing \r\n												authority, apply to the Court \r\n												for judicial review. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) The parties may agree with \r\n												the arbitrator or the personal \r\n												representative of the arbitrator \r\n												on the fees or expenses and \r\n												relief for any liability \r\n												incurred by the arbitrator in \r\n												[he event of (l removal or death \r\n												of an arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Death of arbitrator or person \r\n												who appointed the arbitrator\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												20.<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">(1) \r\n												The authority of an arbitrator \r\n												ceases on the arbitrator''s \r\n												death. (2) U nle5s the parties \r\n												otherwise agree, the death of \r\n												the person who appointed the \r\n												arbitrator does not revoke the \r\n												arbitrator''s appointment. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Filling of vacancy </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp; 21. (1) If the position of an \r\n												arbitrator becomes vacant, the \r\n												parties may agree on </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												whether and how the vacancy is \r\n												to be filled, and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												whether the previous proceedings \r\n												should be adopted. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) If there is no agreement \r\n												between the parties under \r\n												subsection <i>(l)(a), </i>the \r\n												appointing authority shall, on a \r\n												reference by a party, appoint \r\n												another arbitrator in accordance \r\n												with this Act. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Where the parties fail to \r\n												reach an agreement under \r\n												subsection <i>(l)(b) </i>on the \r\n												appointment of an arbitrator to \r\n												fill a vacancy, the new \r\n												arbi­trator shall decide whether \r\n												to adopt the previous \r\n												proceedings or to start afresh.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Fees and Immunity of arbitrators</span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Fees \r\n												for arbitrators </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 22. (1) The parties and the \r\n												arbitrators shall agree on the \r\n												fees payable by the parties in \r\n												respect of the arbitration and \r\n												the parties are jointly and \r\n												severally liable for the payment \r\n												of the agreed fees and if a \r\n												dispute arises about the fees a \r\n												party may refer the issue to the \r\n												appointing authority or the High \r\n												Court for resolution. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) An arbitrator \r\n												shall be paid, based on </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the value of the subject matter \r\n												of the arbitration;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;<i>(b) </i>the complexity of \r\n												the case; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the agreed hourly rate of fee.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) An arbitrator may \r\n												after consultation with the \r\n												parties request the parties to \r\n												make further payments in respect \r\n												of fees where the circum­stances \r\n												so require. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (4) A party may, \r\n												within twenty-eight days after \r\n												the date of the determination of \r\n												the amount of fees, apply to the \r\n												appointing authority or the \r\n												Court upon notice to the other \r\n												party and the arbitrators, for \r\n												an order adjusting the amount of \r\n												fees upon conditions as the \r\n												appointing authority or the \r\n												Court shall determine and any \r\n												excess payment made ~s a result \r\n												of the adjustment may be ordered \r\n												to be repaid having regard to \r\n												all the circumstances. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (5) Subsection (3) \r\n												applies to an arbitrator who has \r\n												ceased to act. (6) Where there \r\n												is an appointing authority, a \r\n												matter shall not be referred to \r\n												the Court in this section unless \r\n												the matter has been first \r\n												referred to the appointing \r\n												authority. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Immunity of arbitrator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 23. (1) An arbitrator \r\n												is not liable for any act or \r\n												omission in the discharge of the \r\n												arbitrator''s functions as an \r\n												arbitrator unless the arbitrator \r\n												is shown to have acted in bad \r\n												faith. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Subsection (1) applies to an \r\n												employee or an agent of an \r\n												arbitrator.</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(3) This section does not \r\n												affect a liability incurred by \r\n												an arbitrator as a result of the \r\n												resignation of the arbitrator.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Jurisdiction of Arbitral \r\n												Tribunal </span></i></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Competence \r\n												to nIle on jurisdiction </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;24. Unless otherwise agreed by \r\n												the parties, the arbitral \r\n												tribunal may rule on its own \r\n												jurisdiction particularly in \r\n												respect of </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the existence, scope or validity \r\n												of the arbitration agreement;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the existence or validity of the \r\n												agreement to which the \r\n												arbi­tration agreement relates;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												whether the matters submitted to \r\n												arbitration are in accordance \r\n												with the arbitration agreement.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Objection to jurisdiction </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												25. (1) A party that intends to \r\n												object to the jurisdiction of an \r\n												arbitrator shall do so before \r\n												taking the first step in the \r\n												proceedings to contest the case \r\n												on its merits. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The appointment or the \r\n												participation in the appointment \r\n												of an arbitrator by a party is \r\n												not a bar to that party raising \r\n												an objection on jurisdiction.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Subject to subsection (1), a \r\n												party who in the course of \r\n												arbitral proceedings intends to \r\n												raise an objection that the \r\n												abitrator is exceeding the \r\n												arbitrator''s jurisdiction shall \r\n												do so immediately after the \r\n												matter alleged to be beyond \r\n												jurisdiction is raised. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Despite subsections (1) and \r\n												(3), the arbitrator may \r\n												entertain an objection made \r\n												later than the prescribed time \r\n												if the arbitrator considers that \r\n												there is sufficient \r\n												justification to do so. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Application to High Court on \r\n												jurisdiction </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												26. (1) A party dissatisfied \r\n												with the arbitrator''s ruling on \r\n												Jurisdiction may on notice to \r\n												the arbitrator and the other \r\n												party apply to the appointing \r\n												authority or the High Court for \r\n												a determination of the \r\n												arbitrator''s jurisdiction.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) An application under \r\n												subsection (1) shall be made \r\n												within seven days of the \r\n												arbitrator''s ruling and shall \r\n												state the reasons for the \r\n												application. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The appointing authority or \r\n												the Court may consider and grant \r\n												an application if it is \r\n												satisfied that </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the application has been made \r\n												within the stipulated rime; and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												there is justification for the \r\n												Court or the appointing \r\n												authority to intervene. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Unless the parties otherwise \r\n												agree, an application to the \r\n												appointing authority or the \r\n												Court shall not serve as a stay \r\n												of the arbitral proceedings.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) An appeal, in the case of \r\n												the Court or a judicial review \r\n												in the case of an appointing \r\n												authority, does not lie from a \r\n												decision under sub­section (3) \r\n												except with the leave of the \r\n												Court. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) The Court shall grant leave \r\n												for a judicial review or to \r\n												appeal </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												where it is satisfied that the \r\n												appeal or judicial review </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												involves a point of law which is \r\n												fundamental to the case; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												is one which for some special \r\n												reason deserves consideration by \r\n												the Court or the Court of \r\n												Appeal. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Waiver of right </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												27. A party who takes part or \r\n												continues to take part in an \r\n												arbitral proceeding, knowing \r\n												that </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator does not have \r\n												jurisdiction; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the proceedings are improperly \r\n												conducted; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitration agreement or \r\n												this Act has not been complied \r\n												with; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												there is an irregularity in \r\n												respect of the arbitrator or \r\n												proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												and who fails to promptly or \r\n												within the time specified in the \r\n												arbitration agreement or under \r\n												this Act to object to the \r\n												proceedings shall be deemed to \r\n												have waived the right to raise \r\n												the objection. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Rights of party not notified of \r\n												arbitral proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												28. (1) A party to an agreement \r\n												who is not notified of \r\n												arbitration proceedings arising \r\n												under that agreement may, by an \r\n												application to the High Court,\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												question whether there is a \r\n												valid arbitration agreement;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												question whether the panel is \r\n												properly constituted; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												question whether the matters \r\n												submitted are in accordance with \r\n												the arbitration agreement;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												challenge an award on the ground \r\n												of lack of jurisdiction in \r\n												relation to that party; and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												challenge an award on the ground \r\n												of serious irregularity that \r\n												affects that party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party whose application to \r\n												the Court is refused may, with \r\n												the leave of the Court appeal to \r\n												the Court of Appeal. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The aggrieved party may \r\n												apply to the Court for a stay of \r\n												the arbitral proceedings pending \r\n												the determination of the \r\n												complaint under section 28 (1).\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Arbitral processes</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Arbitration management \r\n												conference </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												29. (1) Unless the parties \r\n												otherwise decide, an arbitrator \r\n												shall, within fourteen days of \r\n												being appointed and upon giving \r\n												seven days written notice to the \r\n												parties, conduct an arbitration \r\n												management conference with the \r\n												parties or their representatives \r\n												in person or through electronic \r\n												or telecommunication media to \r\n												determine </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the issue to be resolved by \r\n												arbitration; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the date, time, place and \r\n												estimated duration of the \r\n												hearing; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the need for discovery, \r\n												production of documents or the \r\n												issue of interrogatories and to \r\n												establish how this should be \r\n												done; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the law, rules of evidence and \r\n												the burden of proof that is or \r\n												are to apply to the proceedings;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the exchange of declaration \r\n												regarding facts, exhibits, \r\n												wit­nesses and related issues;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(f) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												whether there is the need to \r\n												resolve issues of liability and \r\n												damages separately; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(g) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												whether the summary of evidence \r\n												of parties should be oral </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												or in writing; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(h) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the form of the award; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(i) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												costs and arbitrator''s fees; and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(j) any other issue relating to \r\n												the arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The decisions of an \r\n												arbitrator at an arbitration \r\n												manJgcn1 ''ot conference shall be \r\n												in writing and shall be served \r\n												on the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) An arbitrator may <i>hold\r\n												</i>further arbitration \r\n												management <i>con· Ference </i>\r\n												as is considered necessary upon \r\n												written notice to the parties.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Conciliation conference </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												30. The appointing authority or \r\n												any institution or individual \r\n												may, with the consent of the \r\n												parties at any time during the \r\n												arbitration process, arrange a \r\n												conciliation conference to \r\n												facilitate the resolution of the \r\n												dispute, except that an \r\n												arbitrator in the dispute shall \r\n												not be a conciliator. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Duties and powers of arbitrator \r\n												in proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												31. (1) An arbitrator shall\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												be fair and impartial to the \r\n												parties; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												give each party the opportunity \r\n												to present its case. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Subject to this Act, an \r\n												arbitrator shall conduct the \r\n												arbitration m a manner that the \r\n												arbitrator considers \r\n												appropriate, shall avoid \r\n												unnecessary delay and expenses \r\n												and adopt measures that will \r\n												expedite resolution of the \r\n												dispute.</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(3) Subject to the right of \r\n												parties to agree on any matter \r\n												of proce­dure, the arbitrator \r\n												shall decide on matters of \r\n												procedure and evidence. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Matters of procedure and \r\n												evidence include </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the time and place for holding \r\n												any part of the proceedings; <i>\r\n												(b) </i>the questions that \r\n												should be put to and answered by \r\n												respec­tive parties and how the \r\n												questions should be put; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the documents to be provided by \r\n												the parties and at what stage of \r\n												the proceedings; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the application or \r\n												non-application of the strict \r\n												rules of evidence as to \r\n												admissibility, relevance or \r\n												weight of any material sought to \r\n												be tendered and how the material \r\n												should be tendered. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) The arbitrator may determine \r\n												the time within which any \r\n												direction is to be complied \r\n												with. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) The parties may agree to \r\n												permit an arbitrator to </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												consolidate one arbitral \r\n												proceedings with other arbitral \r\n												proceedings; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												hold concurrent hearings. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) Unless otherwise agreed by \r\n												the parties, the arbitrator may \r\n												order a claimant to provide \r\n												security for the costs of the \r\n												arbitration whether the claimant \r\n												is an individual resident in \r\n												this country or a body \r\n												estab­lished or registered by \r\n												law in this country. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(8) The arbitrator may give \r\n												directions in respect of \r\n												property which is the subject \r\n												matter of the arbitration and \r\n												which is owned or is in the \r\n												possession of a party, </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												for the inspection, \r\n												preservation, photographing or \r\n												detention of the property by the \r\n												arbitrator, an expert or a \r\n												party; and <i>(b) </i>that \r\n												samples be taken or an \r\n												experiment be conducted of the \r\n												property. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (9) The arbitrator may \r\n												subpoena a witness and shall at \r\n												the request of a party subpoena \r\n												a witness. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(10) The arbitrator may direct a \r\n												party or a witness to give \r\n												evidence on oath or affirmation \r\n												and may for that purpose \r\n												administer the oath or \r\n												affirmation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Language of proceedings &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												32. (1) The parties are free to \r\n												agree on the language to be used \r\n												in the arbitral proceedings.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) In the absence of an \r\n												agreement, the arbitrator shall \r\n												deter­mine the language of the \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The arbitrator may direct \r\n												that any documentary evidence \r\n												should be accompanied with a \r\n												translation into a language \r\n												agreed on by the parties or \r\n												determined by the arbitrator.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Statement of claim and defence\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												33. (1) The parties are free to \r\n												agree on the time within which \r\n												the claimant should submit a \r\n												statement of claim and the \r\n												respondent a defence. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) In the absence of an \r\n												agreement under subsection (1) \r\n												the arbi­trator shall determine \r\n												the time for the submission of a \r\n												statement of claim and a \r\n												defence. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The claimant shall state\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the claim and the facts that \r\n												support the claim; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the points in issue for \r\n												resolution; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) &nbsp;</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">the \r\n												relief sought. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The respondent shall state \r\n												in the defence the particular~ \r\n												of its </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) The parties may submit their \r\n												statements together with \r\n												documents considered relevant to \r\n												the proceedings or provide \r\n												reference''&gt; to other documents \r\n												or other evidence intended for \r\n												production at the pro­ceedings.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) Unless otherwise agreed by \r\n												the parties, a party may amend \r\n												or add to the particulars of \r\n												claim or defence submitted, \r\n												except that the arbi­trator may \r\n												refuse an amendment or addition \r\n												on the ground that it is \r\n												inappropriate to allow the \r\n												amendment or addition because \r\n												there has been undue delay on \r\n												the part of the party. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) A party may submit a \r\n												counterclaim or defence to \r\n												counterclaim and the arbitrator \r\n												shall in consultation with the \r\n												parties determine the applicable \r\n												period for doing so. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The arbitration hearing </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												34. (1) An arbitrator shall give \r\n												the parties notice of the date \r\n												of hearing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) A party shall \r\n												before the hearing give the \r\n												arbitrator and the other party \r\n												the personal particulars of \r\n												witnesses that the party intends \r\n												calling and the substance of the \r\n												testimony of each witness.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) A hearing \r\n												begins with the </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												recording of the date, time and \r\n												place of hearing; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												recording the presence of the \r\n												arbitrator, the parties and \r\n												their representatives, if any; \r\n												and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												receiving into the record the \r\n												claim, defence, counterclaim and \r\n												the answer as applicable. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (4) The arbitrator \r\n												may at the beginning of the \r\n												hearing ask for opening \r\n												statements from the parties to \r\n												clarify the issues involved in \r\n												the arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (5) Except as \r\n												otherwise agreed by the parties \r\n												or provided by law, the \r\n												arbitrator shall ensure the \r\n												confidentiality of the \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (6) An arbitrator \r\n												has the authority </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												to exclude a witness who is not \r\n												a party from the hearing; and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												to determine whether a person \r\n												who is neither a witness nor a \r\n												party should attend the hearing.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (7) Unless otherwise \r\n												agreed by the parties, the \r\n												hearing of the arbi­tration \r\n												proceeding shall be private.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (8) Unless \r\n												otherwise agreed by the parties, \r\n												the arbitrator shall determine \r\n												the time within which action \r\n												under subsections (1) and (2) \r\n												shall occur. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (9) Subject to the \r\n												discretion of an arbitrator to \r\n												vary the order of presentation, \r\n												the claimant shall first present \r\n												evidence in support of the \r\n												claimant''s claim and this shall \r\n												be followed by the respondent.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (10) Except the \r\n												parties otherwise agree or the \r\n												arbitrator otherwise orders, a \r\n												claim, a notice or any written \r\n												communication may be served\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												personally on a party; or </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												by mail, courier, facsimile \r\n												transmission, telex, telegram or \r\n												other form of written electronic \r\n												communication addressed to the \r\n												party or its representative at \r\n												its last known address. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (11) Unless \r\n												otherwise agreed by the parties, \r\n												the arbitrator shall decide \r\n												whether to hold oral hearing for \r\n												the presentation of evidence or \r\n												for argu­ment or whether the \r\n												proceedings are to be conducted \r\n												on the basis of documents and \r\n												other materials. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (12) Despite \r\n												subsection (11), the arbitrator \r\n												shall at the request of a party \r\n												at any point in the proceedings, \r\n												hold oral hearing unless the \r\n												parties have agreed that there \r\n												should be no oral hearing.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (13) A party shall \r\n												be given sufficient advance \r\n												notice of any hearing and (In \r\n												opportunity to inspect. document \r\n												and other property relevant to \r\n												the dispute. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (14) Statements, \r\n												documents or other information \r\n												supplied to the arbitrator and \r\n												applications made to the \r\n												arbitrator by one party shall be \r\n												communicated by the party to the \r\n												other party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Taking of evidence in presence \r\n												of parties </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 35. (1) Except where a \r\n												party is absent without good \r\n												cause or has waived the right to \r\n												be present, evidence shall be \r\n												taken in the presence of the \r\n												arbitrator and the parties.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) Evidence of \r\n												a witness may be presented by \r\n												affidavit and the arbitrator may \r\n												admit that evidence, after \r\n												considering any objection raised \r\n												against its admission. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) Where \r\n												evidence by affidavit or a \r\n												witness statement is admitted. a \r\n												party may cross examine the \r\n												deponent or the witness will \r\n												presented that evidence. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (4) An \r\n												arbitrator shall in taking \r\n												evidence take into account \r\n												applicable principles of legal \r\n												privilege. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Filing of documents and other \r\n												evidence after hearing </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 36. (1) An arbitrator \r\n												may direct or parties may agree, \r\n												that documents or other evidence \r\n												should be submitted to the \r\n												arbitrator after the hearing.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) Documents or \r\n												other evidence in respect of \r\n												which there is an agreement or \r\n												direction under subsection (1) \r\n												may be submitted to the Centre \r\n												or the appointing authority for \r\n												transmission to the arbitrator.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Notice of investigation or \r\n												inspection </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 37. (1) An arbitrator \r\n												who decides to conduct an \r\n												inspection or investigation in \r\n												connection with the arbitration\r\n												<i>shall </i>give notice to <i>\r\n												the </i>parties stating the date \r\n												and time of the inspection or \r\n												investigation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) A party may \r\n												attend an inspection or \r\n												investigation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) Whether or \r\n												not a party attends an \r\n												inspection or investiga­tion, \r\n												the arbitrator shall present a \r\n												report to the party and afford \r\n												the party an opportunity to \r\n												comment on the report. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Interim reliefs </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												38. (1) An arbitrator may at the \r\n												request of a party grant any \r\n												interim relief the arbitrator \r\n												considers necessary for the \r\n												protection or preservation of \r\n												property. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) An interim relief may be in \r\n												the form of ,in interim award \r\n												the arbitrator may require the</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The arbitrator may apportion \r\n												costs related to applications \r\n												for interim relief in an interim \r\n												award or in the final award.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Powers of the High Court to \r\n												support arbitral proceedings\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												39. (1) Unless otherwise agreed \r\n												by the parties, the High Court \r\n												has power </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												in relation to an arbitral \r\n												proceedings to make an order\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;<i>(a) </i>for the taking of \r\n												evidence of witnesses; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												for the preservation of \r\n												evidence; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												in respect of the determination \r\n												of any question or issue \r\n												affecting any property right \r\n												which is the subject of the \r\n												proceedings or in respect of \r\n												which any question in the \r\n												pro­ceedings arise </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(i) for the inspection, \r\n												photographing, preservation, \r\n												custody or detention of \r\n												property; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(ii) for the taking of samples \r\n												from or the observation of an \r\n												experiment conducted upon, a \r\n												property; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												and for that purpose authorizing \r\n												any person to enter any premises \r\n												in the possession or control of \r\n												a party to the arbitration;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												for the sale of any goods the \r\n												subject of the proceedings; <i>\r\n												(e) </i>for the granting of an \r\n												interim injunction or the \r\n												appoint­ment of a receiver.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Where the case is one of \r\n												urgency, the Court may, on the \r\n												appli­cation of a party to the \r\n												arbitral proceedings, make \r\n												orders as it considers necessary \r\n												for the purpose of preserving \r\n												evidence or assets. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) If the case is not one of \r\n												urgency, the Court shall act \r\n												only where the application to \r\n												the Court is upon notice to the \r\n												other party and to the \r\n												arbitrator and is made with the \r\n												permission of the arbitrator or \r\n												is supported by an agreement in \r\n												writing of the other party.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) In any case, the Court shall \r\n												act if the arbitrator or other \r\n												insti­tution or person vested by \r\n												the parties with power in that \r\n												regard, is unable for the time \r\n												being to act effectively. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) If the Court so orders, an \r\n												order made by it under this \r\n												section shall cease to have \r\n												effect in whole or in part upon \r\n												a decision to that effect by the \r\n												arbitrator or other institution \r\n												or person vested with power to \r\n												act in relation to the subject \r\n												matter of the order. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) Leave of the court is \r\n												required for any appeal from \r\n												decision of the Court under this \r\n												section. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . . </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Determination of preliminary \r\n												point of law </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												40. (1) Unless otherwise agreed \r\n												by the parties, the High Court \r\n												may, on an application on notice \r\n												to the other party by a party to \r\n												arbitral proceedings, determine \r\n												any question of law that arises \r\n												in the course of the proceedings \r\n												if the Court is satisfied that \r\n												the question substantially \r\n												affects the rights of the other \r\n												party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The application shall \r\n												identify the question of law to \r\n												be deter­mined, and shall state \r\n												the grounds which requires that \r\n												the question should be decided \r\n												by the Court. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Unless otherwise agreed by \r\n												the parties, the arbitrator may \r\n												continue the arbitral \r\n												proceedings and make an award \r\n												while the application to the \r\n												Court under this section is \r\n												pending. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The decision of the Court on \r\n												the question of law shall be \r\n												treated as a judgment of the \r\n												Court for the purpose of an \r\n												appeal; except that no \r\n												appeal1ies without the leave of \r\n												the Court, which leave shall not \r\n												be given unless the Court \r\n												considers that the question is \r\n												one of importance or is one \r\n												which for some other special \r\n												reason should be considered by \r\n												the Court of Appeal. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Mode and substance of evidence \r\n												by witness </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												41. (I) The arbitrator may \r\n												determine the manner in which \r\n												witnesses are examined. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A witness may only offer \r\n												evidence that is relevant and \r\n												material to the dispute. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A witness must offer \r\n												evidence as the arbitrator \r\n												considers necessary for the \r\n												understanding and determination \r\n												of the dispute. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The arbitrator shall be the \r\n												judge of relevance and \r\n												materiality of evidence and \r\n												shall conform to the rules of \r\n												natural justice in that regard.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Representation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												42. (l) Unless otherwise agreed \r\n												by the parties, a party may be \r\n												represented by counselor any \r\n												other person chosen by the \r\n												party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Unless a claim or an answer \r\n												is filed by a representative, a \r\n												party who intends to be \r\n												represented shall give notice \r\n												stating the name and address of \r\n												the representative L0 the other \r\n												party at least seven days before \r\n												the commencement of the arbitral \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Appointment of expert </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												43. (1) The arbitrator may \r\n												appoint an independent expert to \r\n												report to the arbitrator in \r\n												writing on issues specified by \r\n												the arbitrator and this shall be \r\n												communicated to both parties.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party shall for this \r\n												purpose </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp; (a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												provide relevant information; \r\n												and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												produce for inspection, any \r\n												relevant document or material \r\n												that the expert may require.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The arbitrator shall settle \r\n												any dispute between the parties \r\n												and the expert as to the \r\n												relevance of any information or \r\n												material demanded by the expert.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The arbitrator shall send a \r\n												copy of the expert''s report to \r\n												each party and give an \r\n												opportunity to each party to \r\n												comment in writing on the \r\n												report. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) The arbitrator shall give an \r\n												opportunity to the parties to\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												cross examine the expert at the \r\n												hearing; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												call their experts to testify on \r\n												the subject of the report and \r\n												the evidence of the expert \r\n												appointed by the arbitrator.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Postponement of hearing </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												44. (1) An arbitrator may \r\n												postpone a hearing </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												at the arbitrator''s own \r\n												instance; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												at the request of a party who \r\n												gives sufficient reason. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The arbitrator shall \r\n												postpone a hearing if the \r\n												parties agree on a postponement.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) If a party without \r\n												sufficient reason fails to take \r\n												a required step in the \r\n												proceedings or to give evidence, \r\n												the arbitrator may proceed with \r\n												the arbitration, and on the \r\n												evidence before it, make an \r\n												award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Closing of hearing </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												45. (1) An arbitrator may \r\n												declare a hearing closed after \r\n												specifically inquiring from the \r\n												parties whether they have any \r\n												further evidence to give and the \r\n												parties have answered in the \r\n												negative. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) If closing statements are to \r\n												be filed, a hearing shall be \r\n												declared closed as of the last \r\n												date for the submission of the \r\n												statements. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) If a document is to be filed \r\n												and the date for the filing of \r\n												the document is after the date \r\n												for the submission of \r\n												statements, the last date for \r\n												the filing of the document shall \r\n												be the date of the closing of \r\n												the hearing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Re-opening of hearing </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												46. (1) An arbitrator may on \r\n												application by a party or for a \r\n												reason which the arbitrator \r\n												considers appropriate, re-open \r\n												the hearing at any time before \r\n												an award is made. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A hearing shall not be \r\n												re-opened without the agreement \r\n												of the parties for an extension \r\n												of time, if re-opening the \r\n												hearing will prevent the making \r\n												of the award within the time \r\n												specified in the arbitration \r\n												agree­ment or the time agreed on \r\n												by the parties for making of an \r\n												award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Where the arbitration \r\n												agreement or the parties do not \r\n												specify the time for making the \r\n												award and hearing is re-opened, \r\n												the arbitrator shall make an \r\n												award &nbsp;within thirty &nbsp;days of \r\n												the closing of the re open \r\n												hearing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Settlement before conclusion of \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												47. (I) In an arbitral \r\n												proceeding the arbitrator may \r\n												encourage settlement of the \r\n												dispute with the agreement of \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The arbitrator may for the \r\n												purposes of subsection (1), use \r\n												mediation or other procedures at \r\n												any time during the arbitral \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) If during the proceedings \r\n												the parties settle the dispute, \r\n												the arbitrator shall termll1ate \r\n												the proceeding and with the \r\n												agreement of the parties, record \r\n												the settlement in the form of an \r\n												arbitral award on agreed terms.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) An arbitral award on agreed \r\n												terms shall contain in substance \r\n												the terms of an arbitral award \r\n												provided for under section 49.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Rules for the award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												48. (1) An arbitrator shall \r\n												decide the dispute </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												in accordance with the law \r\n												chosen by the parties as \r\n												appli­cable to the substance of \r\n												the dispute, or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.05pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												in accordance with such other \r\n												considerations as are agreed by \r\n												the parties or determined by the \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) For this purpose the choice \r\n												of the law of a country shall be \r\n												understood to refer to the \r\n												substantive laws of that country \r\n												and not con­flict of laws rules.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Where or to the extent that \r\n												no law has been chosen or agreed \r\n												on, the arbitrator shall apply \r\n												the law determined by the \r\n												conflict of laws rules which the \r\n												arbitrator considers applicable.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) In disputes relating to \r\n												contract, the arbitrator shall \r\n												apply the terms of the contract \r\n												taking into consideration the \r\n												usages of the trade to which the \r\n												contract relates. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Where there are three or \r\n												more arbitrators any award or \r\n												deci­sion of the tribunal shall \r\n												be made by majority of the \r\n												arbitrators. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) A monetary award shall be in \r\n												the currency of the contract \r\n												un­less the arbitrator considers \r\n												another currency more \r\n												appropriate. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) The arbitrator may grant the \r\n												appropriate pre-award or post \r\n												award relief at simple or \r\n												compound interest under the \r\n												terms of the contract and the \r\n												applicable law. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(8) Subsection (6) does not \r\n												apply to damages awarded to \r\n												compen­sate for conduct of bad \r\n												faith or for time wasting.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Form and content of arbitral \r\n												award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												49. (1) The parties are free to \r\n												agree on the form of the award \r\n												and in the absence of such an \r\n												agreement this section shall \r\n												apply. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The award shall be in \r\n												writing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The arbitrator shall </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												sign the award; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												state the date and place where \r\n												the award was made; and </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												except the parties otherwise \r\n												agree, state in writing the \r\n												reasons for the award. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Where there is more than one \r\n												arbitrator the signatures of the \r\n												majority of the arbitrators \r\n												shall be sufficient where the \r\n												reason for the omission of the \r\n												signatures of some of the \r\n												arbitrators is stated. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) A signed copy of the award \r\n												shall be delivered to each \r\n												party. (6) The mode of payment \r\n												and rate of interest on any sum \r\n												where applicable shall be \r\n												determined by the arbitrator.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												(7) Unl</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ss\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">he \r\n												pa</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">r</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">es \r\n												o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">th</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">erw</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">se \r\n												agree</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">,\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">e \r\n												awar</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">d\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">ll \r\n												n</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">t\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												be ma</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">d</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">e \r\n												p</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">u</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">b</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">li</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">c \r\n												w</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">ut\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">he\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												c</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ons</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">nt \r\n												of th</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												(8) </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												A</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">n\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">r</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">bit</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ral \r\n												awar</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">d \r\n												m</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ay \r\n												be reg</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ere</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">d\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												wit</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">h \r\n												t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #101104">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">e \r\n												Hig</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">h\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												Co</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">u</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">rt</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">,\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												or o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">th</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">er \r\n												i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">n</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">titut</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">io</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">n \r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">s\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												th</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">e \r\n												pa</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">rti</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">es\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												m</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ay \r\n												agree </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												u</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">po</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">n</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												Scope of award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												50. </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												A</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">n\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												ar</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">b</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">itr</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">at</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">or\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												m</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ay \r\n												wit</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">hin\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">e \r\n												scope of t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">e \r\n												ar</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">b</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #101104">it</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">ra</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #101104">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">io</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">n\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												ag</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">reeme</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #101104">nt\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												grant a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">n</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">y \r\n												re</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">li</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ef\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												th</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">t \r\n												th</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">e \r\n												ar</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">b</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ra</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">or \r\n												considers j</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">u</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">t\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												an</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">d\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">q</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #101104">u</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">itable \r\n												in</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">c</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #101104">l</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">u</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #101104">d</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #101104">n</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">g\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">p</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">eci</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">f</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">c\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												per</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">f</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">or</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">man</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ce</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												A</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ss</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">sment \r\n												of fees and compen</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">ati</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">on\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												51</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: black">.\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												T</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e \r\n												arb</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">it</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">ra</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">r\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ll\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">se</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">ss\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												th</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">e\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												arbitrat</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">n\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												fee</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">,\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #909280">\r\n												e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">xp</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">n</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">s\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">nd\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #909280">\r\n												c</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">mp</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">n</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">at</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">n \r\n												in </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e \r\n												awar</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">d</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												E</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">f</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">fec</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">t \r\n												of </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">wa</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">r</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">d\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												52</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">.\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												Subject to the </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												ri</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">g</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">t \r\n												of a party t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">o \r\n												s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">et \r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">s</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">id</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												an </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">wa</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">r</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">d\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">\r\n												und</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">er \r\n												sec</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">ti</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">n\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												5</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">8\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">\r\n												o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">f \r\n												this Ac</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">,\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">n\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">rbi</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">ration\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">w</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">ar</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">d \r\n												i</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">s \r\n												f</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">in</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">l\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">nd \r\n												binding </span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #7B7E6D">\r\n												a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">s\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">\r\n												b</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">tw</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">en \r\n												t</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1A2620">h</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												parties<span style="color: #909280">\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="color: #5E6355">and \r\n												any per</span><span style="color: #7B7E6D">s</span><span style="color: #5E6355">on\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="color: #7B7E6D">c</span><span style="color: #3B443B">l</span><span style="color: #5E6355">a</span><span style="color: #3B443B">imi</span><span style="color: #5E6355">ng \r\n												thro</span><span style="color: #7B7E6D">ug</span><span style="color: #5E6355">h\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="color: #7B7E6D">o</span><span style="color: #5E6355">r \r\n												und</span><span style="color: #7B7E6D">e</span><span style="color: #5E6355">r \r\n												them. </span></span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												Co</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">rr</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">e</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">cti</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">n\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												of o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">r\r\n												</span>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">\r\n												add</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">iti</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">o</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">n \r\n												to aw</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #5E6355">a</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #3B443B">rd\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Effect of award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												52. Subject to the right of a \r\n												party to set aside an award \r\n												under section 58 of this Act, an \r\n												arbitration award is final and \r\n												binding as between the parties \r\n												and any person claiming through \r\n												or under them. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Correction of or addition to \r\n												award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												53. The arbitrator, at the \r\n												request of a party or on the \r\n												arbitrator''s own volition, may \r\n												within twenty-eight days of \r\n												delivering all award or such \r\n												longer period as parties may \r\n												agree on. upon giving fourteen \r\n												days notice to the parties\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												correct any clerical, \r\n												typographical, technical or \r\n												computa­tion error in the award; \r\n												and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												make an additional award in \r\n												respect of a claim presented to \r\n												the arbitrator but omitted from \r\n												the award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Liability and waiver </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												54. (1) Except for the \r\n												consequences of deliberate wrong \r\n												doing, neither an appointing \r\n												authority nor an arbitrator is \r\n												liable for any act or omission \r\n												ill connection with an \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party''s right to \r\n												arbitration is not waived \r\n												because the party has initiated \r\n												judicial proceedings in relation \r\n												to the subject matter of the \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) An appointing authority or \r\n												the arbitrator is not a \r\n												necessary party in a judicial \r\n												proceeding relating to an \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Expenses \r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n												. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												55. (1) A party shall pay the \r\n												expenses of a witness called by \r\n												the party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.75pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Unless the parties otherwise \r\n												agree or the arbitrator includes \r\n												an expense in the award against \r\n												a party, all expenses of the \r\n												arbitration shall be paid for \r\n												equally by the parties. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Power to withhold award in case \r\n												of non-payment </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												56. (1) An arbitrator may refuse \r\n												to deliver an award to the \r\n												parties until there is full \r\n												payment of the fees and expenses \r\n												of the arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) If the arbitrator refuses on \r\n												the ground specified in \r\n												subsection (1) to deliver an \r\n												award, a party to the \r\n												proceedings may, upon notice to \r\n												the other party and the \r\n												arbitrator, apply to the High \r\n												Court, which may, order that\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator shall deliver the \r\n												award on the payment into Court \r\n												by the applicant of the fees and \r\n												expenses demanded or such amount \r\n												as the Court may specify; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the amount of the fees and \r\n												expenses properly payable shall \r\n												be determined by such means and \r\n												upon such terms as the Court may \r\n												direct; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												out of the money paid into Court \r\n												there shall be paid out such \r\n												fees and expenses as may be \r\n												found to be properly payable to \r\n												the arbitrator and the balance \r\n												of the money, if any, shall be \r\n												paid out to the applicant.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) For the purposes of this \r\n												section, the amount of fees and \r\n												expenses properly payable is the \r\n												amount the applicant is liable \r\n												to pay under section 62 or any \r\n												agreement that relates to the \r\n												payment of the arbitrator.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) No application to the Court \r\n												may be made where there is an \r\n												available arbitral process for \r\n												an appeal against or review of \r\n												the amount of the fees or \r\n												expenses demanded. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) References in this section \r\n												to arbitrator include an \r\n												arbitrator who has ceased to \r\n												act. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) The provisions of this \r\n												section also apply to any \r\n												arbitrator or an appointing \r\n												authority with powers in \r\n												relation to the delivery of the \r\n												arbitrator''s award and for that \r\n												purpose the references to the \r\n												fees and expenses of the \r\n												arbitrator shall be construed as \r\n												including the fees and expenses \r\n												of that appointing authority.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) The leave of the Court is \r\n												required for an appeal from a \r\n												deci­sion of the Court under \r\n												this section. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 77.2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Powers of the High Court in \r\n												relation to award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 77.2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Enforcement of the award </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												57. (1) An award made by an \r\n												arbitrator pursuant to an \r\n												arbitration agreement may, by \r\n												leave of the High Court, be \r\n												enforced in the same manner as a \r\n												judgment or order of the Court \r\n												to the same effect. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Where leave is so given, \r\n												judgment may be entered in terms \r\n												of the award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Leave to enforce an award \r\n												shall not be given where, or to \r\n												the extent, that a person \r\n												against whom the award is sought \r\n												to be enforced shows that the \r\n												arbitrator lacked substantive \r\n												jurisdiction to make the award.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Challenge of award </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												58. (1) An arbitral award may \r\n												subject to this Act be set aside \r\n												on an application by a party to \r\n												the arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The application shall be \r\n												made to the High Court and the \r\n												award may be set aside by the \r\n												Court only where the applicant \r\n												satisfies the Court that </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a party to the arbitration was \r\n												under some disability or \r\n												incapacity: </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the law applicable to the \r\n												arbitration agreement is not \r\n												valid; <i>(c) </i>the applicant \r\n												was not given notice of the \r\n												appointment of the arbitrator or \r\n												of the proceedings or was unable \r\n												to present the applicant''s case;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the award deals with a dispute \r\n												not within the scope of the \r\n												arbitration agreement or outside \r\n												the agreement except that the \r\n												Court shall not set aside any \r\n												part of the award that falls \r\n												within the agreement: </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												there has been failure to \r\n												conform to the agreed procedure \r\n												by the parties; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(f) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator has an interest \r\n												in the subject matter of \r\n												arbi­tration which the \r\n												arbitrator failed to disclose.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The Court shall set aside an \r\n												arbitral award where it finds \r\n												that the subject-matter of the \r\n												dispute is incapable of being \r\n												settled by arbitra­tion or the \r\n												arbitral award was induced by \r\n												fraud or corruption. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) An application to set aside \r\n												an award may not be made after \r\n												three months from the date on \r\n												which the applicant received the \r\n												award unless the Court for \r\n												justifiable cause orders \r\n												otherwise. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.75pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) On hearing the applicant, \r\n												the Court may make an order as \r\n												is just in the circumstances of \r\n												the case. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) An appeal from the Court \r\n												lies to the Court of Appeal.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Enforcement of foreign awards\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.3pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												59. (1) The High Court shall \r\n												enforce a foreign arbitral award \r\n												if It is satisfied that </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the award was made by a \r\n												competent authority under the \r\n												laws of the country in which the \r\n												award was made; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a reciprocal arrangement exists \r\n												between the Republic of Ghana \r\n												and the country in which the \r\n												award was made; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the award was made under the \r\n												international Convention \r\n												specified in the First Schedule \r\n												to this Act or under any other \r\n												international convention on \r\n												arbitration ratified by \r\n												Parliament; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the party that seeks to enforce \r\n												the award has produced</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(i) the original award or has \r\n												produced a copy of the award \r\n												authenticated in the manner \r\n												prescribed by the law of the \r\n												country in which it was made;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp; (ii) the agreement pursuant to \r\n												which the award was made or a \r\n												copy of it duly authenticated in \r\n												the manner prescribed by the law \r\n												of the country in which it was \r\n												made or in any other manner as \r\n												may be sufficient according to \r\n												the laws of the Republic of \r\n												Ghana; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												there is no appeal pending \r\n												against the award in any court \r\n												under the law applicable to the \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party who seeks to enforce \r\n												a foreign award and who relies \r\n												on a document which is not in \r\n												the English Language, shall \r\n												produce a certified true \r\n												translation of that document in \r\n												English to the Court. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Despite subsection (1) the \r\n												court shall not enforce a \r\n												foreign award if </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the award has been annulled in \r\n												the country in which it was \r\n												made; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the party against whom the award \r\n												is invoked was not given \r\n												sufficient notice to enable the \r\n												party present the party''s case;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a party, lacking legal capacity, \r\n												was not properly represented;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the award does not deal with the \r\n												issues submitted to arbitration; \r\n												or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the award contains a decision \r\n												beyond the scope of the matters \r\n												submitted for arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Expedited arbitration \r\n												proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												60. Parties to a dispute in \r\n												respect of which there is an \r\n												arbitration agreement may agree \r\n												to the resolution of the dispute \r\n												by the Centre through expedited \r\n												arbitration proceedings or by \r\n												the adoption by the arbitrator \r\n												of the Expedited Arbitration \r\n												Proceedings Rules of the Centre \r\n												set out in the Third Schedule to \r\n												this Act. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Modification of Centre Rules\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												61. An agreement by the parties \r\n												to apply the- rules of the \r\n												Centre to their dispute is \r\n												subject to modifications as the \r\n												parties may agree upon in \r\n												writing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Effect of expedited proceedings\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												62. An award made in expedited \r\n												arbitration proceedings shall \r\n												have the same effect as an \r\n												arbitration award made under \r\n												Part I of this Act. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Submission to mediation </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												63. (1) A party to any agreement \r\n												may with the consent of the \r\n												other party submit any dispute \r\n												arising out of that agreement to \r\n												mediation by an institution or a \r\n												person agreed on by the parties.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A submission to mediation \r\n												may be made by writing, \r\n												telephone, or other form of \r\n												verbal communication, fax, \r\n												telex, e-mail or any other \r\n												electronic mode of communication \r\n												and shall briefly state the \r\n												nature of the dispute. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A submission co mediation \r\n												through telephone, or any other \r\n												verbal mode of communication \r\n												shall, unless the parties agree \r\n												otherwise, be confirmed in \r\n												writing and shall state the \r\n												names, addresses including \r\n												e-mail addresses and telephone \r\n												numbers of the parties and in \r\n												brief the nature of the dispute.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Mediation proceedings \r\n												commence when the other party \r\n												accepts the invitation for \r\n												mediation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) An acceptance of an \r\n												invitation for mediation may be \r\n												by a letter, telephone, or other \r\n												form of verbal communication, \r\n												fax, telex, or e-mail or other \r\n												mode of electronic \r\n												communication. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) An acceptance by telephone \r\n												or any other verbal means shall \r\n												be confirmed in writing but a \r\n												failure to confirm an acceptance \r\n												in writing shall not invalidate \r\n												the proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) Failure by the other party \r\n												to accept the invitation to \r\n												mediation within fourteen days \r\n												after receipt of the invitation \r\n												or within the period of time \r\n												specified in the invitation \r\n												shall be considered to be a \r\n												rejection of the invitation to \r\n												mediation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Reference to mediation by court\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												64. (1) A court before which an \r\n												action is pending may at any \r\n												stage in the proceedings, if it \r\n												is of the view that mediation \r\n												will facilitate the resolution \r\n												of the matter or a part of the \r\n												matter in dispute, refer the \r\n												matter or that part of the \r\n												matter to mediation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party to an action before \r\n												a court may, with the agreement \r\n												of the other party and at any \r\n												time before final judgment is \r\n												given, apply to the court on \r\n												notice to have the whole action \r\n												or part of the action referred \r\n												to mediation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 62.8pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A reference under \r\n												subsections (1) or (2) shall \r\n												state</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 62.8pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the nature of the dispute;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 93.55pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the monetary value of the claim, \r\n												if any;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 93.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;<i>(c) </i>the reasons for the \r\n												reference; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the remedy sought </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												and shall have attached copies \r\n												of the pleadings and any other \r\n												documents the court considers \r\n												relevant. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) A reference under this \r\n												section shall serve as a stay of \r\n												proceedings of the court action.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Where a reference leads to \r\n												settlement of the dispute or \r\n												part of the dispute the \r\n												settlement shall be </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												drawn up and filed in the court;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 24.4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												recorded by the court as a \r\n												judgment of the court: and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 24.4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												enforced by the court as its \r\n												judgment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) Where the reference does not \r\n												lead to a settlement, the court \r\n												shall continue with the \r\n												proceedings from the point where \r\n												the reference was made. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) A reference by a court \r\n												shall. specify the time within \r\n												which a report on the reference \r\n												shall be submitted to the court.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Number of mediators </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.2pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #212B24">65.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">(1) \r\n												Unless the parties otherwise \r\n												agree, there shall be one \r\n												mediator. (2) Where there is \r\n												more than one mediator, the \r\n												mediators shall act jointly.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Appointment of mediator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												66. (1) The parties to a \r\n												mediation may appoint any person \r\n												or institution the parties \r\n												consider acceptable to serve as \r\n												a mediator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Parties may request the \r\n												assistance of a suitable \r\n												institution or person in the \r\n												appointment of a mediator and \r\n												may in so doing request the \r\n												institution or person </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .7pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												to recommend the names or \r\n												provide a list of Suitable \r\n												persons to serve as mediator; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												to conduct the mediation. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Parties to a mediation may \r\n												adopt the Mediation Rule in the \r\n												Fourth Schedule to this Act.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Mediator with interest </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												67. (1) !n recommending a. \r\n												person to be a mediator an \r\n												institution&nbsp; or person shall \r\n												have regard to the independence \r\n												and impartiality of that \r\n												&nbsp;person, and take into \r\n												consideration the background of \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) An institution or person \r\n												that is requested to recommend a \r\n												mediator shall not recommend a \r\n												person to serve as a mediator if \r\n												that person has a financial or \r\n												personal interest in the outcome \r\n												of the dispute </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Disclosure by mediator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												68. (1) A person appointed a \r\n												mediator shall before accepting \r\n												the appointment. disclose any \r\n												circumstances relating to that \r\n												person that may </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;<i>(a) </i>create a like hood \r\n												of bias; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												affect the conduct of the \r\n												mediation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) A mediator shall \r\n												promptly disclose to the parties \r\n												any circum­stances that arises \r\n												during the mediation which is \r\n												likely to affect the </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												impartiality of the mediator; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												conduct of the mediation. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Parties to a mediation may \r\n												replace a mediator who makes a \r\n												disclosure under subsection (1).\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Termination of appointment for \r\n												delay </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												69. The parties may replace a \r\n												mediator who without reasonable \r\n												cause fails to </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 29.95pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												start work within the period \r\n												agreed by the parties; or </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 29.95pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												operate within the ground rules \r\n												of the mediation. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Filling of vacancy in mediation\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												70. The parties may appoint \r\n												another mediator to replace a \r\n												mediator who is unable to \r\n												perform the functions of a \r\n												mediator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Representation in mediation\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												71. (1) A party to a mediation \r\n												may be represented by a lawyer, \r\n												an expert or any other person \r\n												chosen by the party. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party shall communicate in \r\n												writing to the mediator and the \r\n												other parties the name, address \r\n												and the extent of the authority \r\n												of any representative within \r\n												seven days of the \r\n												representative''s appointment.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Date, time and place of \r\n												mediation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												72. (1) A mediator in \r\n												consultation with the parties \r\n												shall determine the date and \r\n												time of each mediation session.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Subject to the mediator \r\n												choosing a convenient place, the \r\n												parties shall determine the \r\n												place for the mediation. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Identification of issues in \r\n												dispute </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												73. (1) Not later than eight \r\n												days before the first mediation \r\n												session or within such period of \r\n												time as the parties may mutually \r\n												agree upon, each party shall \r\n												present to the mediator and the \r\n												other parties a memorandum \r\n												setting out the party''s position \r\n												with regard to the issues which \r\n												require resolution. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The mediator may request \r\n												each party to submit a written \r\n												state­ment of that party''s \r\n												position and the facts and \r\n												grounds in support of that \r\n												position, supplemented by any \r\n												documents and other evidence \r\n												that the party considers \r\n												appropriate. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) At any stage of the \r\n												mediation proceedings, the \r\n												mediator may request a party to \r\n												submit additional information as \r\n												the mediator considers \r\n												necessary. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Powers of mediator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												74. (1) A mediator shall in an \r\n												independent and impartial manner \r\n												do everything necessary to help \r\n												the parties to satisfactorily \r\n												resolve their dispute. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A mediator may conduct joint \r\n												or separate meetings with the \r\n												parties and make suggestions to \r\n												facilitate settlement. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A mediator may where \r\n												necessary and if the parties \r\n												agree to pay the expenses, \r\n												obtain expert advice on a \r\n												technical aspect of the dispute.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) A request for the services \r\n												of an expert may be made by the \r\n												mediator or by one party with \r\n												the consent of the other party.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) A mediator shall be guided \r\n												by principles of objectivity, \r\n												fair­ness and justice, and shall \r\n												give consideration to, among \r\n												other things, the rights and \r\n												obligations of the parties, the \r\n												usages of the trade concerned \r\n												and the circumstances \r\n												surrounding the dispute, \r\n												including any previous business \r\n												practices between the parties.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) A mediator may conduct the \r\n												mediation proceedings in a \r\n												manner that the mediator \r\n												considers appropriate, but shall \r\n												take into account the wishes of \r\n												the parties including any \r\n												request by a party that the \r\n												mediator hear oral statements, \r\n												and the need for a speedy \r\n												settlement of the dispute.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) A mediator may end the \r\n												mediation whenever the mediator \r\n												is of the opinion that further \r\n												mediation between the parties \r\n												Will not help to resolve the \r\n												dispute between the parties.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Administrative assistance </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												75</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">.\r\n												</span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												In order to facilitate the \r\n												conduct of mediation \r\n												proceedings. the parties, or the \r\n												mediator with the consent of the \r\n												parties, may arrange for \r\n												administrative assistance by a \r\n												suitable institution or \r\n												individual. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Communication between mediator \r\n												and parties </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												76. The mediator may invite the \r\n												parties to meet the mediator and \r\n												may communicate with them orally \r\n												or in writing and may meet or \r\n												communicate with the parties \r\n												together or with each of them \r\n												separately. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Attendance at mediation </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												77. Except where the parties \r\n												agree and the mediator consents, \r\n												a person who is not a party to \r\n												the mediation shall not attend a \r\n												mediation session. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Disclosure of information </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												78. Except where a party gives \r\n												information to the mediator \r\n												subject to a condition of \r\n												confidentiality, when the \r\n												mediator receives factual \r\n												information concerning the \r\n												dispute from a party, the \r\n												mediator may disclose the \r\n												substance of that information to \r\n												the other party in order that \r\n												the other party may have the \r\n												opportunity to present any \r\n												explanation which that other \r\n												party considers appropriate.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Confidentiality of mediation\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												79. (1) A record, a report, the \r\n												settlement agreement, except \r\n												where its disclosure is \r\n												necessary for the purpose of \r\n												implementation and enforcement, \r\n												and other documents required in \r\n												the course of mediation shall be \r\n												confidential and shall not be \r\n												used as evidence or be subject \r\n												to discovery in any court \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A mediator shall not \r\n												disclose information given in \r\n												the course of the mediation to a \r\n												person who is not a party to the \r\n												mediation without the consent of \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Without limiting the effect \r\n												of subsection (1) a party to a \r\n												mediation shall not rely on\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the record of the mediation;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												statement made at the mediation; \r\n												or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 55.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any information obtained during \r\n												the mediation as evidence in \r\n												court proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												End of mediation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												80. (1) A mediation ends when\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parties execute a settlement \r\n												agreement; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the mediator terminates the \r\n												mediation proceedings for \r\n												non­payment of a deposit under \r\n												section 88. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the mediator after consultation \r\n												with the parties makes a \r\n												declaration to the effect that \r\n												further mediation is not \r\n												worth­while; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parties jointly address a \r\n												declaration to the mediator to \r\n												the effect that the mediation is \r\n												terminated; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a party makes a declaration to \r\n												the mediator and the other party \r\n												to the effect that the mediation \r\n												is terminated. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A declaration under \r\n												subsection (1) may be in writing \r\n												or oral but where a declaration \r\n												is not written the mediator \r\n												shall record the decla­ration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Settlement agreement </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp; 81. (1) Where it appears to \r\n												the mediator that there exist \r\n												elements of a settlement which \r\n												may be acceptable to the \r\n												parties, the mediator may \r\n												formulate the terms of a \r\n												possible settlement and submit \r\n												them to the parties for their \r\n												considerations and after \r\n												receiving the observations of \r\n												the parties, the mediator may \r\n												reformulate the terms of a \r\n												possible settlement in the light \r\n												of the observations. &nbsp;&nbsp; . </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) If the parties reach \r\n												agreement on a settlement of the \r\n												dispute, they may draw up and \r\n												sign a written settlement \r\n												agreement and if requested by \r\n												the parties, the mediator may \r\n												draw up, or assist the parties \r\n												in drawing up, the settlement \r\n												agreement. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) When the parties sign the \r\n												settlement agreement, the \r\n												parties shall be deemed to have \r\n												agreed that the settlement shall \r\n												be binding on the parties and \r\n												persons claiming under them \r\n												respectively. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The mediator shall \r\n												authenticate the settlement \r\n												agreement and furnish a copy of \r\n												the settlement agreement to each \r\n												of the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Status and effect of settlement \r\n												agreement </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 82. Where the parties agree \r\n												that a settlement is binding, \r\n												the settlement agreement has the \r\n												same effect as if it is an \r\n												arbitral award under section 52.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Resort to arbitral or judicial \r\n												proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 83. The parties shall not \r\n												initiate, during the mediation \r\n												proceedings, any arbitral or \r\n												judicial proceedings in respect \r\n												of a dispute that is the \r\n												subject-matter of the mediation \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Role of mediator in other \r\n												proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												84.Un!ess &nbsp;otherwise &nbsp;agreed by \r\n												the parties or<i> </i>required \r\n												by law. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the mediator shall not act as an \r\n												arbitrator or as a \r\n												representative or counsel of a \r\n												party in any arbitral or \r\n												judicial proceeding in respect \r\n												of a dispute that is [''he \r\n												subject of the mediation \r\n												proceedings; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the mediator shall not be \r\n												presented by the parties as a \r\n												witness in any arbitral or \r\n												judicial proceedings arising out \r\n												of or in connection with the \r\n												dispute mediated upon. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Admissibility of evidence in \r\n												other proceedings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												85. The parties shall nm rely on \r\n												or introduce JS evidence in \r\n												arbitral or judicial \r\n												proceedings, whether or not the \r\n												proceedings relate to the \r\n												dispute that is the subject of \r\n												the mediation proceedings,\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												views expressed or suggestions \r\n												made by the other party in the \r\n												mediation in respect of a \r\n												possible settlement of the \r\n												dispute; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												admissions made by the other \r\n												party in the course of the \r\n												mediation proceedings; or </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the fact that the other party \r\n												had indicated that party''s \r\n												will­ingness to accept a \r\n												proposal for settlement made by \r\n												the mediator. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Exclusion of liability </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp; 86. (1) A mediator shall not \r\n												be a party in any court \r\n												proceedings relating to a \r\n												mediation under this Act in \r\n												which the mediator participated.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A mediator is not liable for \r\n												any act or omission in the \r\n												discharge of the functions of a \r\n												mediator unless the mediator is \r\n												proven to have acted in bad \r\n												faith. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Mediation expenses </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												87. Unless the parties agree \r\n												otherwise, the parties shall \r\n												equally pay the expenses of the \r\n												mediation including the fees and \r\n												expenses of</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 54.15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the mediator; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 97.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any administrative assistance \r\n												received;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 97.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;<i>(c) </i>experts called; and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any expenses incurred in \r\n												connection with the mediation \r\n												proceedings and settlement \r\n												agreement. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Deposits </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												88. (1) The mediator may direct \r\n												each party to deposit an equal \r\n												amount as an advance for the \r\n												expenses of the mediation \r\n												referred to in section 87 which \r\n												the mediator expects will be \r\n												incurred. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) During the course of \r\n												mediation proceedings, the \r\n												mediator may direct \r\n												supplementary deposits in an \r\n												equal amount from each party.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) If the required deposits are \r\n												not paid in full by both parties \r\n												within thirty days of the \r\n												direction, the mediator may \r\n												suspend the proceedings or may \r\n												make a written declaration of \r\n												termination of the proceedings \r\n												to the parties, effective on the \r\n												date of that declaration. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) On termination of the \r\n												mediation proceedings, the \r\n												mediator shall render an account \r\n												to the parties of the deposits \r\n												received and shall return any \r\n												unexpended balance to the \r\n												parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Submission to customary \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												89. (1) A party to a dispute may \r\n												submit the dispute to customary \r\n												arbitration under this Part.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Except otherwise ordered by \r\n												a court and subject to any other \r\n												enactment in force, a person \r\n												shall not </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 17.7pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												submit a criminal matter for \r\n												customary arbitration; or <i>(b)\r\n												</i>serve as an arbitrator in a'' \r\n												criminal matter. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A person who contravenes \r\n												subsection (2) commits an \r\n												offence and is liable on summary \r\n												conviction to a fine not \r\n												exceeding two hundred and fifty \r\n												penalty units or a term of \r\n												imprisonment not exceeding \r\n												twelve months or to both. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) A conviction of a person \r\n												under subsection (3) is not a \r\n												bar to prosecution for an \r\n												offence under the Criminal \r\n												Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) to \r\n												which that person is liable in \r\n												respect of the matter submitted \r\n												for customary arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Agreement to submit to customary \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												90. (1) A report of a dispute by \r\n												a party to that dispute to a \r\n												qualified person as provided in \r\n												section 92, followed by a \r\n												request to that qualified person \r\n												to help resolve the dispute \r\n												shall constitute a submission to \r\n												customary arbitration. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A customary arbitrator to \r\n												whom a submission for customary \r\n												arbitration is made by a party \r\n												shall inform the other party of \r\n												the submission and invite that \r\n												other party and the party who \r\n												made the submission to pay a fee \r\n												or a token for the arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The payment by the parties \r\n												of the arbitration fee or token \r\n												demanded by the arbitrator in \r\n												customary arbitration constitute</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												consent t0 submit to customary \r\n												arbitration and</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the appointment of the \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Customary arbitration shall \r\n												not commence where the other \r\n												party rejects the invitation by \r\n												failing to pay the fee or token \r\n												demanded by the arbitrator.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Failure by the other party \r\n												to accept the invitation within \r\n												twenty-one days of receipt of \r\n												the invitation or within a \r\n												period of time specified by the \r\n												arbitrator shall be deemed to be \r\n												a rejection of the invitation.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) A person shall not be forced \r\n												or coerced by another person, \r\n												institution or authority to \r\n												submit to customary arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Reference by court to customary \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												91. A court may with the consent \r\n												of parties order a dispute \r\n												pending before it to be \r\n												submitted by the parties to \r\n												customary arbitration. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Qualification of customary \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												92. (1) A person chosen by one \r\n												of the parties and accepted by \r\n												the other party or a person \r\n												agreed on by the parties to a \r\n												dispute qualifies to be an \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(2) The Centre shall as far as \r\n												practicable prepare and maintain \r\n												at its offices a list of \r\n												customary arbitrators for the \r\n												area which the office of the \r\n												Centre oversees. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Rules of customary arbitration\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												93. (1) A customary arbitrator \r\n												shall apply the rules of natural \r\n												justice and fairness and is not \r\n												obliged to apply any legal rules \r\n												of procedure in the arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The parties may agree in \r\n												consultation with the arbitrator \r\n												to, <i>(a) </i>conduct the \r\n												arbitration under the auspices \r\n												of the Centre; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												adopt the Rules of arbitration \r\n												of the Centre subject to such \r\n												modifications as the parties and \r\n												the arbitrator consider \r\n												appropriate. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Registration of dispute with the \r\n												Centre </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												94. (1) Where parties agree to \r\n												conduct a customary arbitration \r\n												under the auspices of the \r\n												Centre, they shall register the \r\n												dispute with the nearest local \r\n												office of the Centre. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) For the purpose of \r\n												subsection (1) the Centre shall \r\n												as far as practi­cable have \r\n												offices attached to Unit \r\n												Committees and District \r\n												Assemblies. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A registration of a dispute \r\n												under this Part shall indicate\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the names and addresses of the \r\n												parties and the arbitrator; and\r\n												<i>(b) </i>the nature of the \r\n												dispute. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The parties are free to \r\n												appoint the person who should be \r\n												the arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Number of customary arbitrators\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												95. Unless the parties agree \r\n												otherwise, there shall be one \r\n												customary arbitrator for \r\n												customary arbitration \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Appointment of customary \r\n												arbitrator by Centre </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												96. (1) Parties to a dispute may \r\n												agree that the Centre should \r\n												appoint the arbitrator. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Where parties agree as \r\n												provided under subsection (1), \r\n												the parties shall go to the \r\n												nearest Office of. the Centre; \r\n												register their dispute and pay \r\n												the required fee upon which the \r\n												Centre shall appoint an \r\n												arbitra­tor from the register of \r\n												arbitrators for that area for \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Notice of appointment of \r\n												customary arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												97. Where parties appoint an \r\n												arbitrator under section 101 (4) \r\n												or the Centre appoints the \r\n												arbitrator under section 103 \r\n												(1), the Centre shall within \r\n												fourteen days after that \r\n												appointment inform the \r\n												arbitrator of the appointment.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Disclosure by a customary \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												98. (1) A person requested to be \r\n												a customary arbitrator shall \r\n												disclose any circumstance likely \r\n												to give reasonable cause to \r\n												doubt as to the independence or \r\n												impartiality of that person.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A customary arbitrator''s \r\n												obligation to disclose under \r\n												subsec­tion (1) subsists \r\n												throughout the arbitral \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Challenge of a customary \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												99. (1) A customary arbitrator \r\n												may be challenged if </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												circumstances exist that give \r\n												rise to reasonable cause to \r\n												doubt as to the arbitrator''s \r\n												independence or impartiality; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator does not possess \r\n												a qualification agreed on by the \r\n												parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party may not challenge an \r\n												arbitrator who that party has \r\n												appointed or in whose \r\n												appointment that party \r\n												participate expect for reasons \r\n												which that party becomes aware \r\n												of subsequent to the \r\n												appointment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Subject to subsection (4), \r\n												parties may agree on a procedure \r\n												for challenging a customary \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Unless the parties in \r\n												accordance with subsection (3) \r\n												agree other­wise, a party who \r\n												intends to challenge a customary \r\n												arbitrator shall within seven \r\n												days of appointment of the \r\n												arbitrator or after becoming \r\n												aware of the grounds of the \r\n												challenge, inform the other \r\n												party and the arbitra­tor of the \r\n												challenge and the reasons for \r\n												the challenge. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) A customary arbitrator who \r\n												is challenged shall step down \r\n												and the party who appointed the \r\n												challenged arbitrator shall \r\n												appoint another arbitrator to \r\n												replace the challenged \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Revocation of customary \r\n												arbitrator''s appointment </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												100. (1) The parties to a \r\n												customary arbitration may agree \r\n												on the circumstances under which \r\n												the appointment of a customary \r\n												arbitrator may be revoked, and \r\n												they may in any case acting \r\n												jointly. revoke the appointment.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Without limiting subsection \r\n												(1), the parties may revoke the \r\n												appointment of a customary \r\n												arbitrator where </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												there is sufficient reason to \r\n												doubt the impartiality of the \r\n												arbitrator; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator is physically or \r\n												mentally incapable of \r\n												con­ducting the proceedings or \r\n												there is reasonable cause to \r\n												doubt as to the arbitrator''s \r\n												capability to conduct the \r\n												proceedings; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator has refused or \r\n												failed to </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(i) conduct the arbitral \r\n												proceedings properly; or </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(ii) use reasonable despatch in \r\n												conducting the proceed­ings or \r\n												making the award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp; Resignation of customary \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 101. (1) A customary \r\n												arbitrator may resign from the \r\n												office of an arbitrator at any \r\n												time during the arbitration, \r\n												except that an arbitrator who \r\n												resigns shall refund the \r\n												remainder of any fees paid as \r\n												may be agreed on by the parties \r\n												and the arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) Any dispute \r\n												as to the refund of fees upon \r\n												the resignation of a customary \r\n												arbitrator shall be settled by\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a District Court on an \r\n												application to that District \r\n												Court by the arbitrator or any \r\n												of the parties; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any person the customary \r\n												arbitrator and the parties agree \r\n												on and in the case where that \r\n												person fails to settle the \r\n												dispute, the dispute may be \r\n												referred to the District Court.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;Death of customary arbitrator\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 102. The authority of a \r\n												customary arbitrator ceases on \r\n												the death of the arbitrator.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Filling of vacancy in customary \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												103. (1) Where the position of a \r\n												customary arbitrator becomes \r\n												vacant by reason of revocation, \r\n												resignation or death, the \r\n												parties may appoint another \r\n												person to fill the vacancy.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Where the customary \r\n												arbitration proceedings are\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												recorded, the parties may in \r\n												consultation with the new \r\n												arbitrator determine whether the \r\n												proceedings of the previous \r\n												arbitration should be adopted; \r\n												or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												not recorded, the customary \r\n												arbitration shall start afresh.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Place, date and time of first \r\n												customary arbitration session\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												104. Where the arbitration is \r\n												conducted under the auspices of \r\n												the Centre or where the Centre \r\n												appoints the arbitrator, the \r\n												arbitrator shall, within \r\n												twenty-one days after being \r\n												informed of the appointment, \r\n												inform the parties and the \r\n												Centre of the place, date and \r\n												time of the first arbitration \r\n												session and shall determine the \r\n												place, date and time of \r\n												subsequent arbitration session \r\n												and inform the parties \r\n												accordingly. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Withdrawal from customary \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												105. A party shall not withdraw \r\n												from customary arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Language of proceedings </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												106. The parties may choose the \r\n												language for the proceedings.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Time for customary award </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												107. Except the parties \r\n												otherwise agree in consultation \r\n												with the arbitrator or the \r\n												complexity of the issue \r\n												requires, an award shall be made \r\n												within twenty-one days after the \r\n												first hearing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Form of customary award </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												108.</span><i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												</span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Except where a party requests \r\n												for a written award and pay for \r\n												the written award or the \r\n												reference to arbitration is made \r\n												by the court. the award in a \r\n												customary arbitration need not \r\n												be in writing . </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												. Effect of customary award\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												109. An award in a customary \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												is binding between the parties \r\n												and a person claiming through \r\n												and under them; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												need not be registered in a \r\n												court to be binding. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Registration of customary award\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												110. (1) A customary arbitration \r\n												award may for the purpose of \r\n												record and enforcement be \r\n												registered at the nearest \r\n												District Court, Circuit Court or \r\n												High Court as appropriate.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A customary arbitration \r\n												award intended for registration \r\n												at a court shall be in writing.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Enforcement of customary award\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												111. An award may be enforced in \r\n												the same manner as a judgment of \r\n												the court. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; . </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Setting aside customary award\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												112. (1) A party aggrieved by an \r\n												award may apply to the nearest \r\n												District, Circuit or High Court \r\n												to set aside the award on the \r\n												grounds that the award </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 42.9pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												was made in breach of the rules \r\n												of natural justice, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 42.9pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												constitutes a miscarriage of \r\n												justice, or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												is in contradiction with the \r\n												known customs of the area \r\n												concerned. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) An application under \r\n												subsection (1) shall be made to \r\n												the court within three months of \r\n												the award, and on notice to the \r\n												other party to the arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Negotiation for a settlement\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												113. The provisions on customary \r\n												arbitration as are appropriate \r\n												shall apply to the customary \r\n												dispute settlement procedure \r\n												known as negotiation for a \r\n												settlement except that in a \r\n												negotiation for a settlement,\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parties do not pay the \r\n												settlement fees, until the end \r\n												of the settlement, if they agree \r\n												with the terms of the \r\n												settle­ment; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parties may withdraw from \r\n												the settlement proceedings at \r\n												any time; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parties are not bound to \r\n												accept the settlement arrived at \r\n												in the proceedings; and </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the payment of the settlement \r\n												fees by the parties at the end \r\n												of the proceedings constitutes \r\n												acceptance of the settlement and \r\n												makes the settlement binding on \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 15.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												PART FOUR-ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE \r\n												RESOLUTION CENTRE </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Establishment of Alternative \r\n												Dispute Resolution Centre </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												114. (1) There is established by \r\n												this Act an Alternative Dispute \r\n												Resolution Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The Centre is a body \r\n												corporate with perpetual \r\n												succession and a common seal and \r\n												may sue or be sued in its \r\n												corporate name. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The Centre may for the \r\n												performance of its functions \r\n												under this Act acquire and hold \r\n												movable or immovable property, \r\n												dispose of its property and may \r\n												enter into a contract or any \r\n												other transaction. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Where there is a hindrance \r\n												to the acquisition of property, \r\n												the property may be acquired for \r\n												the Centre under the State \r\n												Property and Contracts Act, 1960 \r\n												(C.A.6) or the State Lands Act, \r\n												1962 (Act 125) and the costs \r\n												shall be borne by the Centre.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Object and functions of the \r\n												Centre </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												115. (1) The object of the \r\n												Centre is to facilitate the \r\n												practice of alternative dispute \r\n												resolution. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) For the attainment of its \r\n												object, the Centre shall </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												provide facilities for the \r\n												settlement of disputes through \r\n												arbitration, mediation and other \r\n												voluntary dispute resolution \r\n												procedures; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												exercise any power for \r\n												alternative dispute resolution \r\n												con­ferred on it by parties to a \r\n												dispute but shall not be \r\n												involved in actual resolution of \r\n												the dispute; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												keep a register of arbitrators \r\n												and mediators; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												provide a list of arbitrators \r\n												and mediators to persons who \r\n												request for the services of \r\n												arbitrators and mediators;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												provide guidelines on fees for \r\n												arbitrators and mediators; <i>\r\n												(f) </i>arrange for the \r\n												provision of assistance to \r\n												persons as it con­siders \r\n												necessary; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(g) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												from time to time examine the \r\n												rules of arbitration and \r\n												mediation under this Act and \r\n												recommend changes in the rules;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(h) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												conduct research, provide \r\n												education and issue specialised \r\n												publications on all forms of \r\n												alternative dispute resolution,\r\n												<i>(i) </i>set up such regional \r\n												and district offices of the \r\n												Centre as the Board considers \r\n												appropriate; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(j) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												register experienced or \r\n												qualified persons who wish to \r\n												serve as customary arbitrators \r\n												and keep a register of customary \r\n												arbitrators; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(k) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												request the traditional councils \r\n												to register and keep a register \r\n												of persons who wish to serve as \r\n												customary arbitrators. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Independence of Centre </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												116. Subject to the Constitution \r\n												and unless otherwise provided in \r\n												this Act, and any other \r\n												enactment, the Centre shall not \r\n												be under the direction or \r\n												control of any person or \r\n												authority in the performance of \r\n												its functions. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Governing Board of the Centre\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												117. (l) The Centre shall have a \r\n												governing Board composed of\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a chairperson who is a lawyer of \r\n												not less than twelve years \r\n												standing; . </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												one member of each of the \r\n												following, nominated by the \r\n												respective body, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 95.7pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(i) Ghana Chamber of Commerce;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 95.7pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(ii) the Ghana Bar Association;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 87.75pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(iii) the Ghana Institute of \r\n												Surveyors;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 87.75pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(iv) the Judiciary; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 53.45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(v) Institute of Chartered \r\n												Accountants; and</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 53.45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;(vi) a woman nominated by the \r\n												President; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 98.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												one representative of organised \r\n												labour; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 98.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												one representative from \r\n												industry; and <i>(e) </i>the \r\n												Executive Secretary of the \r\n												Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The chairperson and members \r\n												of the Board shall be appointed \r\n												by the President in accordance \r\n												with article 70 of the \r\n												Constitution. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The Board shall perform the \r\n												functions of the Centre. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Tenure of office of members of \r\n												the Board </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												118. (1) A member of the Board \r\n												shall hold office for a period \r\n												of three years and is eligible \r\n												for re-appointment but a member \r\n												shall not hold office for more \r\n												than two terms in succession.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Subsection (1) does not \r\n												apply to the Executive \r\n												Secretary. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A member of the Board may by \r\n												a thirty day notice resign from \r\n												office in writing addressed to \r\n												the President, through the \r\n												Minister. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) A member of the Board who is \r\n												absent from three consecutive \r\n												meetings of the Board without \r\n												sufficient cause ceases to be a \r\n												member of the Board. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) The President may by letter \r\n												addressed to a member revoke the \r\n												appointment of that member.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 39.75pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) A person who is a member of \r\n												the Board by virtue of <i>(a)\r\n												</i>a professional qualification \r\n												held by that person; or </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												being an employee of an \r\n												institution, Ministry, \r\n												Department, Agency or other body\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												ceases to be a member of the \r\n												Board if that person in the case \r\n												of </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a professional, is disqualified \r\n												or suspended from practice by an \r\n												order of the relevant competent \r\n												authority or for some reason \r\n												other than voluntary resignation \r\n												that person''s name is struck off \r\n												the register of the professional \r\n												body; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												an employee is no longer \r\n												employed by the institution, \r\n												Ministry, Department, Agency or \r\n												other body. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) Where a member of the Board \r\n												is, for a reasonable cause, \r\n												unable to act as a member, the \r\n												Minister shall determine whether \r\n												the inability would result in \r\n												the declaration of vacancy.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(8) Where there is a vacancy\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 38.85pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												under subsection (3), (4), (5), \r\n												(6) or section 121 (2); <i>(b)\r\n												</i>as a result of a declaration \r\n												under subsection (7); or <i>(c)\r\n												</i>by reason of the death of a \r\n												member, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .95pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the Minister shall notify the \r\n												President of the vacancy and the \r\n												President shall appoint a person \r\n												to fill the vacancy. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Allowance of members of the \r\n												Board </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												119. Members of the Board and \r\n												members of a Committee of the \r\n												Board shall be paid allowances \r\n												approved by the Minister in \r\n												consultation with the Minister \r\n												responsible for Finance . </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												. Meetings of the Board </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												120. (1) The Board shall meet at \r\n												least once every three months \r\n												for the despatch of business at \r\n												the times and in the places \r\n												determined by the chairperson.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The chairperson shall at the \r\n												request of at least one'' third \r\n												of the members of the Board \r\n												convene an extraordinary meeting \r\n												of the Board </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.8pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The quorum at a meeting of \r\n												the Board is six members, \r\n												including the Executive \r\n												Secretary. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 4.05pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The chairperson shall \r\n												preside at meetings of the Board \r\n												and in the absence of the \r\n												chairperson, a member of the \r\n												Board elected by the members \r\n												present from among their number \r\n												shall preside. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 4.05pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Matters before the Board \r\n												shall be decided by a majority \r\n												of the members present and \r\n												voting and in the event of an \r\n												equality of votes the person \r\n												presiding shall have a casting \r\n												vote. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 6.45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) The Board may co-opt a \r\n												person to attend its meetings \r\n												but a co-opted person is not \r\n												entitled to vote on a matter for \r\n												decision by the Board. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 7.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) The proceedings of the Board \r\n												shall not be invalidated by \r\n												reason of a vacancy among the \r\n												members or a defect in the \r\n												appointment or quali­fication of \r\n												a member. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 8.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(8) Subject to this section, the \r\n												Board may determine the \r\n												proce­dure for its meetings.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Disclosure of interest by Board \r\n												member </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.05pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												121. (1) A member of the Board \r\n												or of a committee of the Board \r\n												who has an interest in a matter \r\n												under consideration by the Board \r\n												shall disclose in writing the \r\n												nature of that interest to the \r\n												Board or the committee and is \r\n												disqualified from participating \r\n												in the deliberations of the \r\n												Board or the committee in \r\n												respect of that matter. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A member who contravenes \r\n												subsection (1) ceases to be a \r\n												member of the Board or \r\n												committee. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Committees of the Board </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												122. The Board may establish \r\n												committees consisting of members \r\n												of the Board or non-members or \r\n												both to perform its functions.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Registration of arbitrators and \r\n												mediators </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												123. (1) A person with the \r\n												requisite qualification may \r\n												apply to register with the \r\n												Centre as an arbitrator or a \r\n												mediator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The Centre shall keep in a \r\n												register, the name, address and \r\n												other particulars of a person \r\n												registered as an arbitrator or \r\n												mediator by the Centre. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Regional and district offices of \r\n												the Centre </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												124. The Centre may have \r\n												regional and district offices as \r\n												the Board considers appropriate.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 24.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												PART FIVE-FINANCIAL, \r\n												ADMINISTRATIVE AND MISCELLANOUS \r\n												PROVISIONS </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Establishment of Alternative \r\n												Dispute Resolution Fund </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												125. (1) There is established by \r\n												this Act a Fund to be known as \r\n												the Alternative Dispute \r\n												Resolution Fund. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The sources of money for the \r\n												Fund are </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												grants from the Government for \r\n												the development of alternative \r\n												dispute resolution; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												charges and fees collected by \r\n												the Centre in the performance of \r\n												its functions; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												donations and gifts from the \r\n												general public, institutions and \r\n												organisations. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Objects of the Fund </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												126 &nbsp;&nbsp;Moneys of the Fund shall \r\n												be applied for </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												education of the general public \r\n												on alternative dispute \r\n												reso­lution</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												research and studies relating to \r\n												the functions of the Centre; <i>\r\n												(c) </i>human resource \r\n												development for alternative \r\n												dispute reso­lution, and </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any other purposes as the Board \r\n												in consultation with the \r\n												Minister may determine. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Management of the Fund </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												127. (1) The Fund shall be \r\n												managed by the Board which shall \r\n												for this purpose include the \r\n												Controller and \r\n												Accountant-General or a \r\n												representative of the Controller \r\n												and Accountant-General. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Moneys for the Fund shall be \r\n												paid into a bank account opened \r\n												by the Board with the approval \r\n												of the Controller and \r\n												Accountant-General. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The provisions under \r\n												sections 132 and 133 of this Act \r\n												on accounts and audit and annual \r\n												reports shall apply to the Fund.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Functions of the Board in \r\n												relation to the Fund </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 31.2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												128. (1) The Board shall for the \r\n												purpose of managing the Fund\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 31.2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												formulate policies to generate \r\n												money for the Fund; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												determine the allocations to be \r\n												made towards the objects of the \r\n												Fund; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												determine annual targets of the \r\n												Fund. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The Board may invest a part \r\n												of the Fund as it considers \r\n												appropriate in government \r\n												securities or in a manner as may \r\n												be approved by the Minister in \r\n												consultation with the Minister \r\n												responsible for Finance. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Payments issued from [he \r\n												Fund shall be signed by any two \r\n												of the following: </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 146.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the chairperson of the Board: <i>\r\n												(b) </i>the Executive Secretary; \r\n												and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												one other member of the Board.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Executive Secretary </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												129. (1) The President shall in \r\n												accordance with article 195 of \r\n												the Constitution appoint an \r\n												Executive Secretary for the \r\n												Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The Executive Secretary \r\n												shall hold office on the terms \r\n												and conditions specified in the \r\n												letter of appointment. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Subject to the directions of \r\n												the Board, the Executive \r\n												Secre­tary is responsible for \r\n												the day to day administration of \r\n												the Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The Executive Secretary \r\n												shall maintain the register of \r\n												arbitra­tors and mediators\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) The Executive Secretary \r\n												shall perform any other \r\n												functions that the Board may \r\n												determine. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Appointment of other staff\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												130. (1) The Centre shall have \r\n												other officers and staff as may \r\n												be necessary for the effective \r\n												performance of its functions.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The President shall in \r\n												accordance with article 195 of \r\n												the Con­stitution appoint other \r\n												members of staff who shall hold \r\n												office on terms and conditions \r\n												specified in their letters of \r\n												appointment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) Other public officers may be \r\n												transferred or seconded to the \r\n												Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The centre may engage the \r\n												services of advisers on the \r\n												recom­mendations of the Board.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Delegation of power of \r\n												appointment </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												131. The President may in \r\n												accordance with article 195(2) \r\n												of the Constitution, delegate \r\n												the power of appointment of \r\n												public officers under this Act.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Accounts and Audit </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												132. (1) The Centre shall keep \r\n												books of account and proper \r\n												records in relation to them in a \r\n												form approved by the \r\n												Auditor-General. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The accounts of the Centre \r\n												shall be audited by the Auditor \r\n												General within three months \r\n												after the end of each financial \r\n												year. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The Auditor-General shall \r\n												not later than three months \r\n												after the receipt of the \r\n												accounts, audit the accounts of \r\n												the centre and forward a copy of \r\n												the audit reports to the \r\n												Minister. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The financial year of the \r\n												Centre is the same as the \r\n												financial year of the \r\n												Government. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Annual reports </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												133. (1) The Centre shall within \r\n												one month after the receipt of \r\n												the audit report submit to the \r\n												Minister an annual report \r\n												covering the activities and the \r\n												operations of the Centre for the \r\n												year to which the report relate \r\n												. (2) The annual report shall \r\n												include the report of the \r\n												Auditor General. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The Minister shall, within \r\n												one month after the receipt of \r\n												the annual report submit the \r\n												report to Parliament with a \r\n												statement that the Minister \r\n												considers necessary. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The Centre shall submit to \r\n												the Minister any other reports \r\n												which the Minister may require \r\n												in writing. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Regulations </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 60.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												134. The Minister may on the \r\n												advice of the Board make \r\n												Regulations by legislative \r\n												instrument to prescribe for\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 60.4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												conciliation, mediation, \r\n												arbitration and other voluntary \r\n												dispute resolution procedures;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 60.4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												qualifications of persons who \r\n												wish to be registered as \r\n												arbi­trators and mediators;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 60.65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parameters for the \r\n												determination of fees of \r\n												concilia­tors, mediators and \r\n												arbitrators; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 59.7pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												research, education and training \r\n												procedures as well as the \r\n												standards to be attained in \r\n												these with respect to all forms \r\n												of alternative dispute \r\n												resolution; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 61.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the functions of regional and \r\n												district offices of the Centre;\r\n												<i>(j) </i>the role of the \r\n												District Assemblies, Unit \r\n												Committees and traditional \r\n												customary institutions in \r\n												achieving the object of the \r\n												Centre; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 146.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(g) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												matters relating to customary \r\n												arbitration; <i>(h) </i>the \r\n												arbitration rules of the Centre; \r\n												and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(;) matters generally to give \r\n												effect to the provision:; of \r\n												this Act. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												interpretation </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												135. In this Act, unless the \r\n												context otherwise requires\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 63.75pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;Alternative Dispute Resolution&quot; \r\n												means the collective \r\n												descrip­tion of methods of \r\n												resolving disputes otherwise \r\n												than through the normal trial \r\n												process; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 63.75pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;appointing authority&quot; means any \r\n												person or authority including \r\n												the Centre in whom parties to an \r\n												arbitration agreement vest power \r\n												to take any action for or on \r\n												behalf of the parties, in \r\n												relation to the arbitration;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 66.9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;arbitration&quot; means the <i>\r\n												voluntary </i>submission of a \r\n												dispute to one or more impartial \r\n												persons for a final and binding \r\n												determination; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 68.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;arbitration agreement&quot; means an \r\n												agreement to submit to \r\n												arbi­tration present or future \r\n												dispute; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;arbitration management \r\n												conference&quot; means a meeting held \r\n												between the arbitrator and the \r\n												parties to the arbitration \r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; under section 29 to \r\n												resolve preliminary issues and \r\n												set down a guideline for the \r\n												arbitration; . &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 10.25pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;award&quot; includes an arbitration \r\n												award on agreed terms. \r\n												&quot;arbitrator&quot; means one or more \r\n												impartial persons appointed or \r\n												who can be appointed to offer a \r\n												final and binding resolution to \r\n												a dispute; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 9.75pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;arbitral tribunal&quot; means an \r\n												arbitration consisting of one or \r\n												more persons; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;Board&quot; means the board of \r\n												Governors of the Centre referred\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												to in section 117; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 6.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;Centre&quot; means the Alternative \r\n												Dispute Resolution Centre \r\n												established in section 114;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 5.2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;conciliation&quot; means the \r\n												submission by the parties of a \r\n												dispute which is the subject of \r\n												an arbitration during the cause \r\n												of the arbitration to an \r\n												impartial person who is not the \r\n												arbi­trator to facilitate the \r\n												resolution of the dispute \r\n												between the parties; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 6.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;conciliator&quot; means an impartial \r\n												person appointed to preside over \r\n												a conciliation conference;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;Court&quot; means the High Court;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 4.25pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;customary arbitration&quot; means \r\n												the voluntary submission of a \r\n												dispute, whether or not relating \r\n												to a written agreement for a \r\n												final binding determination \r\n												under Part Three of this Act; \r\n												&quot;customary arbitrator&quot; means an \r\n												impartial person appointed\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 4.0pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												or qualified to be appointed as \r\n												an arbitrator in customary \r\n												arbitration; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;expedited procedure&quot; means the \r\n												fast track arbitration \r\n												pro­cedure referred to in Part \r\n												II; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;Fund&quot; means the Alternative \r\n												Dispute Resolution Fund \r\n												established under section 125;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;mediation&quot; means a nonbinding \r\n												process under Part Two in which \r\n												the parties discuss their \r\n												dispute with an impartial person \r\n												who assists them to reach a \r\n												resolution; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;mediator&quot; includes an impartial \r\n												person appointed or quali­fied \r\n												to be appointed to assist the \r\n												parties to satisfactorily \r\n												resolve their dispute and \r\n												employees and persons hired by \r\n												that person; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&quot;Minister&quot; means the Minister \r\n												responsible for Justice. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Modification of court rules\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												136. Upon the coming into force \r\n												of this Act, any existing rules \r\n												of </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												court on arbitration shall apply \r\n												subject to the provisions of \r\n												this Act. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Repeals and savings </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												137. (1) The Arbitration Act, \r\n												1961 (Act 38) is repealed (2) \r\n												Despite the repeal of the \r\n												Arbitration Act, 1961 (Act 38)\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any instrument, agreement, \r\n												Regulations and order made under \r\n												that Act and in force \r\n												immediately before the \r\n												com­mencement of this Act shall \r\n												continue to be in force, until \r\n												otherwise legally altered, and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												any action commenced or pending \r\n												before any court to which Act 38 \r\n												applies shall continue and be \r\n												dealt with under this Act.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Transitional provisions </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												138. Any body or association \r\n												which is not a party to an \r\n												arbitration </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												agreement but which is \r\n												responsible for </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												appointing arbitrators; </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 74.55pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												setting up arbitration panels or \r\n												tribunals; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 74.55pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												managing arbitration generally\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.3pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												in existence before the coming \r\n												into force of this Act may upon \r\n												the appointment of the Board of \r\n												the Centre apply to be \r\n												affiliated to [he Centre. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												SCHEDULES</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												FIRST SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: 15.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												CONVENTION ON THE RECOGNITION \r\n												AND ENFORCEMENT OF FOREIGN \r\n												ARBITRAL AWARDS 1958 (NEW YORK \r\n												CONVENTION)</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(Section </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												59 <i>(J)(c))</i></span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 4.05pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The United Nations Convention on \r\n												the Recognition and Enforcement \r\n												of Foreign Arbitral Awards \r\n												adopted at the Headquarters of \r\n												the United Nations in New York \r\n												on June 10, 1958. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article I </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #4B4E3F">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">This \r\n												Convention shall apply to the \r\n												recognition and enforcement of \r\n												arbitral awards made in the \r\n												territory of a State other than \r\n												the State where the recognition \r\n												and enforcement of such awards \r\n												are sought, and arising out of \r\n												differences between persons, \r\n												whether physical or legal. It \r\n												shall also apply to arbitral \r\n												awards not considered as \r\n												domestic awards in the State \r\n												where their recognition and \r\n												enforcement are sought. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #4B4E3F">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The \r\n												term &quot;arbitral awards&quot; shall \r\n												include not only awards made by \r\n												arbitrators appointed for each \r\n												case but also those made by \r\n												permanent arbitral bodies to \r\n												which the parties have \r\n												submitted. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #4B4E3F">3.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">When \r\n												signing, ratifying or acceding \r\n												to this Convention, or notifying \r\n												extension under Article X \r\n												hereof, any State may on the \r\n												basis of reciprocity declare \r\n												that it will apply the \r\n												Convention to the recognition \r\n												and enforcement of awards made \r\n												only in the territory of another \r\n												Contracting State. It may also \r\n												declare that it will apply the \r\n												Convention only to differences \r\n												arising out of legal \r\n												relationships whether \r\n												contractual or not, which are \r\n												considered as commercial under \r\n												the national law of the State \r\n												making such declaration. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article ll</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #4B4E3F">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Each \r\n												Contracting State shall \r\n												recognise an agreement in \r\n												writing under which the parties \r\n												undertake to submit to \r\n												arbitration all or any \r\n												differences which have arisen or \r\n												which may arise between them in \r\n												respect of a defined \r\n												legal-relationship, whether \r\n												contractual or not, concerning a \r\n												subject matter capable of \r\n												settlement by arbitration.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.65pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #232C25">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The \r\n												term&quot; agreement in writing&quot; \r\n												shall include an arbitral clause \r\n												in a contract or an arbitration \r\n												agreement, signed by the parties \r\n												or contained in an exchange of \r\n												letters or telegrams. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.65pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #232C25">3.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The \r\n												court of a Contracting State, \r\n												when seized of an action in a \r\n												matter in respect of which the \r\n												parties have made an agreement \r\n												within the meaning of this \r\n												article, shall, at the request \r\n												of one of parties the'' parties \r\n												refer the'' parties to \r\n												arbitration, unless it finds \r\n												that the said agreement is null \r\n												and void, inoperative or \r\n												incapable of being performed.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article III</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Each Contracting State shall \r\n												recognise arbitral awards as \r\n												binding and enforce them in \r\n												accordance with the rules of \r\n												procedure of the territory where \r\n												the award is relied upon, under \r\n												the conditions laid down in the \r\n												following articles. There shall \r\n												not be imposed substantially \r\n												more onerous conditions or \r\n												higher fees or charges on the \r\n												recognition or enforcement of \r\n												arbitral awards to which this \r\n												Convention applies than are \r\n												imposed on the recognition or \r\n												enforcement of domestic \r\n												arbitration s, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article IV</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.4pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #686C5C">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">To \r\n												obtain the recognition and \r\n												enforcement mentioned in the \r\n												preceding article, the party \r\n												applying for recognition and \r\n												enforcement shall, at the time \r\n												of the application, supply:\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the duly authenticated original \r\n												award or a duly certified copy \r\n												thereof; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the original agreement referred \r\n												to in Article II or a duly \r\n												certified copy thereof. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.9pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #454B3E">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">If \r\n												the said award or agreement is \r\n												not made in an official language \r\n												of the country in which the \r\n												award is relied upon, the party \r\n												applying for recognition and \r\n												enforcement of the award shall \r\n												produce a translation of these \r\n												documents into such language. \r\n												The translation shall be \r\n												certified by an official or \r\n												sworn translator or by a \r\n												diplomatic or consular agent.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n												Article V</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 10.75pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #373D2F">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Recognition \r\n												and enforcement of the award may \r\n												be refused, at the request of \r\n												the party against whom it is \r\n												invoked, only if that party \r\n												furnishes to the competent \r\n												authority where the recognition \r\n												and enforcement is sought, proof \r\n												that: </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 8.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The parties to the agreement \r\n												referred to in Article II were, \r\n												under the law applicable to \r\n												them, under some incapacity, or \r\n												the said agreement is not valid \r\n												under the law to which the \r\n												parties have subjected it or \r\n												failing any indication thereon, \r\n												under the law of the country \r\n												where the award was made; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.8pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The party against whom the award \r\n												is invoked was not given proper \r\n												notice of the appointment of the \r\n												arbitrator or of the arbitration \r\n												proceedings or was otherwise \r\n												unable to present his case; or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.8pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The award deals with a \r\n												difference not contemplated by \r\n												or not falling within the terms \r\n												of the submission to \r\n												arbitration, or it contains \r\n												decisions on matters beyond the \r\n												scope of the submission to \r\n												arbitration, provided that, if \r\n												the decisions on matters \r\n												submitted to arbitration can be \r\n												separated from those not so \r\n												submitted, that part of the \r\n												award which contains decisions \r\n												on matters submitted to \r\n												arbitration may be recognised \r\n												and enforced; or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.8pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The composition of the arbitral \r\n												authority or the arbitral \r\n												procedure was not in accordance \r\n												with the agreement of the \r\n												parties, or, failing such \r\n												agreement, was not in accordance \r\n												with the law of the country \r\n												where the arbitration took \r\n												place; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.8pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The award has not yet become \r\n												binding on the parties, or has \r\n												been set aside or suspended by a \r\n												competent authority of the \r\n												country in which, or under the \r\n												law of which, that award was \r\n												made. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #585A49">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Recognition \r\n												and enforcement of an arbitral \r\n												award may also be refused if the \r\n												competent authority in the \r\n												country where recognition and \r\n												enforcement is sought finds \r\n												that: </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The subject matter of the \r\n												difference is not capable of \r\n												settlement by arbitration under \r\n												the law of that country: or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The recognition or enforcement \r\n												of the award would be contrary \r\n												to the public policy of that \r\n												country. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article VI</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												If an application for the \r\n												setting aside or suspension of \r\n												the award has been made to a \r\n												competent authority referred to \r\n												in article V <i>(l)(e), </i>the \r\n												authority before which the award \r\n												is sought to be relied upon may, \r\n												if it considers it proper, \r\n												adjourn the decision on the \r\n												enforcement of the award and may \r\n												also, on the application of the \r\n												party claiming enforcement of \r\n												the award, order the other party \r\n												to give suitable security.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article VII</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #293028">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The \r\n												provisions of the present \r\n												Convention shall not affect the \r\n												validity of multilateral or \r\n												bilateral agreements concerning \r\n												the recognition and enforcement \r\n												of arbitral awards entered into \r\n												by the Contracting States nor \r\n												deprive any interested parry of \r\n												any right he may have to avail \r\n												himself of an arbitral award in \r\n												the manner and to the extent \r\n												allowed by the law or the \r\n												tTeatie5 ()f the country where \r\n												such award is sought to be \r\n												relied upon. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Geneva Protocol \r\n												on Arbitration Clauses of 1923 \r\n												and the Geneva Convention on the \r\n												Execution of Foreign Arbitral \r\n												Awards of 1927 shall cease to \r\n												have effect between Contracting \r\n												States on their becoming bound \r\n												and to the extent that they \r\n												become bound, by this \r\n												Convention. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article VIII</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .45pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #505345">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">This \r\n												Convention shall be open until \r\n												31 December 1958 for signature \r\n												on behalf of (my Member of the \r\n												United Nations and also on \r\n												behalf of any other State which \r\n												is or hereafter becomes a member \r\n												of any specialised agency of the \r\n												United Nations, or which is or \r\n												hereafter becomes a party to the \r\n												Statute of the International \r\n												Court of Justice, or any other \r\n												State to which an invitation has \r\n												been addressed by the General \r\n												Assembly f the United Nations.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #505345">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">This \r\n												Convention shall be ratified and \r\n												the instrument of ratification \r\n												shall be deposited with the \r\n												Secretary-general of the United \r\n												Nations. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article IX</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #44483B">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">This \r\n												Convention shall be open for \r\n												accession to all States referred \r\n												to in Article VIII. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #44483B">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Accession \r\n												shall be effected by the deposit \r\n												of an instrument of accession \r\n												with the Secretary-General of \r\n												the United Nations. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article X</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #44483B">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Any \r\n												State may, at the time of \r\n												signature, ratification or \r\n												accession, declare that this \r\n												Convention shall extend to all \r\n												or any of the territories for \r\n												the international relations of \r\n												which it is responsible. Such a \r\n												declaration shall take effect \r\n												when the Convention enters into \r\n												force for the State concerned.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #44483B">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">At \r\n												any time thereafter any such \r\n												extension shall be made by \r\n												notification addressed to the \r\n												Secretary-General of the United \r\n												Nations and shall take effect as \r\n												from the ninetieth day after the \r\n												day of receipt by the \r\n												Secretary-General of the United \r\n												Nations of this notification, or \r\n												as from the date of entry into \r\n												force of the Convention for the \r\n												State concerned whichever is the \r\n												later. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #94937E">3.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">With \r\n												respect to those territories to \r\n												which this Convention extended \r\n												at the time of signature, \r\n												ratification or accession, each \r\n												State concerned shall consider \r\n												the possibility of taking the \r\n												necessary steps in order to \r\n												extend the application of this \r\n												Convention to such territories, \r\n												subject, where necessary for \r\n												constitutional reasons, to the \r\n												consent of the Governments of \r\n												such territories. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article XI</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #5E604F">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">In \r\n												the case of a federal S:H \r\n												non-unitary State, the following \r\n												provisions shall apply: </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												With respect to those articles \r\n												of this Convention that come \r\n												within the legislative \r\n												jurisdiction of the federal \r\n												authority, the obligations of \r\n												the federal Government shall to \r\n												this extent be the same as those \r\n												of Contracting States which are \r\n												not federal States; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												With respect to those articles \r\n												of this Convention that come \r\n												within the legislative \r\n												jurisdiction of constituent \r\n												states or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												provinces which are not, under \r\n												the constitutional system of the \r\n												federation, bound to take \r\n												legislative action, the federal \r\n												Government shall bring such \r\n												articles with a favourable \r\n												recommendation to the notice of \r\n												the appropriate authorities of \r\n												constituent states or provinces \r\n												at the earliest possible moment;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												A federal State Party to this \r\n												Convention shall, at the request \r\n												of any other Contracting State \r\n												transmitted through the \r\n												Secretary-General of the United \r\n												Nations, supply a statement of \r\n												the law and practice of the \r\n												federation and its constituent \r\n												units in regard to any \r\n												particular provision of this \r\n												Convention, showing the extent \r\n												to which effect has been given \r\n												to that provision by legislative \r\n												or other action. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article XII</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #565A4B">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">This \r\n												Convention shall come into force \r\n												on the ninetieth day following \r\n												the date of deposit of the third \r\n												instrument of ratification or \r\n												accession. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #ADAC97">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">For \r\n												each State ratifying or a ceding \r\n												to this Convention after the \r\n												deposit of the third instrument \r\n												of ratification or accession. \r\n												[!''is Convention shall enter \r\n												into force on the ninetieth day \r\n												after deposit by such State of \r\n												its instrument of ratification \r\n												or accession. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article XIII</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in">\r\n												<span style="color: #565A4B">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Any \r\n												Contracting State may denounce \r\n												this Convention by a written \r\n												notification to the \r\n												Secretary-General of the United \r\n												Nations. Denunciation shall take \r\n												effect one year after the date \r\n												of receipt of the notification \r\n												by the Secretary-General. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #797A68">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Any \r\n												State which has made a \r\n												declaration or notification \r\n												under Article X may, at any time \r\n												thereafter, by notification to \r\n												the Secretary-General of the \r\n												United Nations, declare that \r\n												this Convention shall cease to \r\n												extend to the territory \r\n												concerned one year after the \r\n												date of the receipt of the \r\n												notification by the \r\n												Secretary-General. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 2.55pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #565A4B">3.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">This \r\n												Convention shall continue to be \r\n												applicable to arbitral awards in \r\n												respect of which recognition or \r\n												enforcement proceedings have \r\n												been instituted before the \r\n												denunciation takes effect.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article XIV</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												A Contracting State shall not be \r\n												entitled to avail itself of the \r\n												present Convention against other \r\n												Contracting States except to the \r\n												extent that it is itself bound \r\n												to apply the Convention. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article XV</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												The Secretary-General of the \r\n												United Nations shall notify the \r\n												States contemplated in Article \r\n												VIII of the following: </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Signature and ratifications in \r\n												accordance with article VIII; <i>\r\n												(b) </i>Accessions in accordance \r\n												with article IX; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Declarations and notifications \r\n												under articles I, X and XI; <i>\r\n												(d) </i>The date upon which this \r\n												Convention enters into force in \r\n												accordance with Article XII;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Denunciations and notifications \r\n												in accordance with Article XIII.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Article XVI</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #666856">1.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">This \r\n												Convention, of which the \r\n												Chinese, English, French, \r\n												Russian and Spanish texts shall \r\n												be equally authentic, shall be \r\n												deposited in the archives of the \r\n												United Nations. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="color: #666856">2.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">The \r\n												Secretary-General of the United \r\n												Nations shall transmit a \r\n												certified copy of this \r\n												Convention to the States \r\n												contemplated in Article VIII.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												SECOND SCHEDULE</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: 4.0pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION \r\n												CENTRE RULES ARBITRATION RULES</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-right: .2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(Section </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												5(3), 8(2))</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" align="center" style="text-align: center">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Application of Rules</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												1. (1) Where parties to an \r\n												agreement agree that a dispute \r\n												in relation to that agreement be \r\n												referred to arbitration by the \r\n												Alternative Dispute Resolution \r\n												Centre, the dispute shall be \r\n												settled in accordance with these \r\n												Rules subject to any \r\n												modifications of the Rules that \r\n												the parties may agree </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												upon in writing; except that \r\n												where any of these Rules is in \r\n												conflict with a provision of the \r\n												law applicable to the \r\n												arbitration from which the \r\n												parties cannot derogate, that \r\n												provision shall apply. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Where parties to an existing \r\n												dispute file with the Centre a \r\n												written agreement to submit the \r\n												dispute to arbitration under \r\n												these Rules or by the Centre, \r\n												these Rules shall apply subject \r\n												to any modification agreed on by \r\n												the parties; except that where \r\n												any of these Rules is in \r\n												conflict with a provision of the \r\n												law applicable to the \r\n												arbitration from which the \r\n												parties cannot derogate, that \r\n												provision shall apply. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Arbitral tribunal </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												2. A sale arbitrator or a panel \r\n												constituted by the parties for \r\n												the settlement of a dispute \r\n												under these Rules shall be \r\n												called an Arbitral Tribunal.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Administrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												3. Where parties agree to \r\n												arbitration by the Centre, the \r\n												Centre is the administrator of \r\n												the arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Delegation of administrative \r\n												duties </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												4. The administrative duties of \r\n												the Centre under these Rules \r\n												shall be carried out through \r\n												officers or communities of the \r\n												Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Administration by regional, \r\n												district offices of Centre\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												5. The Centre, may assign the \r\n												administrative function of an \r\n												arbitration to any of its office \r\n												in the regions or districts.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												6. (1) For the purposes of these \r\n												Rules, any notice, including a \r\n												notification, communication or \r\n												proposal, is received if it is \r\n												physically delivered to the \r\n												addressee or if it is delivered \r\n												at the addressee''s habitual \r\n												residence, place of business or \r\n												mailing address, or, if none of \r\n												these can be found after making \r\n												reasonable injury, then at the \r\n												addressee''s last known residence \r\n												or place of business d \\ld \r\n												notice is deemed to have been \r\n												received on the day it is \r\n												delivered. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A notice required to be \r\n												given under these Rules may be \r\n												given by telephone, telex, \r\n												facsimile, e-mail or any other \r\n												means of electronic \r\n												com­munication. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A notice given through \r\n												telephone or any other verbal \r\n												mode per­mitted under subrule \r\n												(2) shall be confirmed in \r\n												writing which shall state the \r\n												names, addresses (including \r\n												e-mail addresses) and telephone \r\n												numbers of the parties. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Failure to confirm a notice \r\n												in Writing under sub rule(3) \r\n												does not invalidate the \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Initiation of arbitration </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												7. (1) A party who intends to \r\n												initiate arbitration proceedings \r\n												with the Centre (the ''claimant'') \r\n												shall give to the other party \r\n												(the ''respondent'') a notice of \r\n												arbitration. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 115.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The notice of arbitration \r\n												shall include <i>(a) </i>a copy \r\n												of the arbitration agreement;\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 35.2pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a demand that the dispute be \r\n												referred to arbitration; <i>(c)\r\n												</i>the names and addresses of \r\n												the parties; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a reference to the arbitration \r\n												clause or the separate \r\n												arbitration agreement that is \r\n												invoked; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(e) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a reference to the contract out \r\n												of or in relation to which the \r\n												dispute arises; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(f) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the statement of claim, stating \r\n												the general nature of the claim \r\n												and an indication of the amount \r\n												involved, if any; </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(g) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the relief or remedy sought; and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(h) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												a proposal as to the number of \r\n												arbitrators if the parties have \r\n												not previously agreed on the \r\n												number of arbitrators. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) The notice of arbitration \r\n												may also include </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the proposals for the \r\n												appointment of an arbitrator, \r\n												and <i>(b) </i>the notification \r\n												of the appointment of an \r\n												arbitrator referred to in rule \r\n												14. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The claimant shall at the \r\n												time of service of the notice on \r\n												the respondent, file 2 copies of \r\n												the notice at an office of the \r\n												Centre upon paying the \r\n												appropriate administrative fee.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Arbitration proceedings commence \r\n												on the date on which the notice\r\n												<i>is </i>received by the \r\n												respondent. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) Within seven days after a \r\n												notice has been filed with the \r\n												Centre, the Centre shall inform \r\n												the other party of the filing of \r\n												the notice. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.75pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) The respondent shall within \r\n												fourteen days of being served \r\n												with a notice under subsection \r\n												(1), file an answer in duplicate \r\n												with the Centre and serve the \r\n												claimant with a copy of the \r\n												answer. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(8) Where an answer includes a \r\n												counterclaim, the notice of the \r\n												coun­terclaim, the amount \r\n												involved, if any, and the remedy \r\n												sought shall be stated in the \r\n												counterclaim. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(9) A respondent who makes a \r\n												counterclaim in an answer shall \r\n												pay the appropriate \r\n												administrative fee to the \r\n												Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(10) The failure of a respondent \r\n												to file an answer within time \r\n												shall </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												be assumed to be a denial of the \r\n												claim; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												not stay the arbitration \r\n												proceedings. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(11) Unless the Centre in \r\n												consultation with the parties \r\n												determine otherwise, the \r\n												Expedited arbitration Procedure \r\n												provided for under Schedule III \r\n												of this Act shall be applied in \r\n												a case where the total sum \r\n												claimed, exclusive of interest \r\n												and arbitration costs, does not \r\n												exceed US$100,000 or its \r\n												equivalent in cedis. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Change or amendment of claim\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												8. (1) A party who after filing \r\n												a claim desires to make a new \r\n												claim or amend the claim shall \r\n												file the new claim or amended \r\n												claim with the Centre and serve \r\n												the other party with a copy.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party served with a new or \r\n												amended claim shall within seven \r\n												days from the date of being \r\n												served, file an answer with the \r\n												Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A new claim or an amendment \r\n												to a claim shall not be made \r\n												after the appointment of an \r\n												arbitrator, except with the \r\n												consent of the arbitrator.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Administrative conference </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												9. A party or the Centre may \r\n												before the appointment of an \r\n												arbitrator request for the \r\n												holding of an administrative \r\n												conference with representatives \r\n												of the Centre and the parties or \r\n												their representatives to </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .65pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												organise and expedite the \r\n												arbitration, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Study and discuss the \r\n												administrative issues involved \r\n												in the case, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												determine the most suitable \r\n												means of appointing an \r\n												arbitrator, and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												consider mediation as a means of \r\n												resolving the dispute. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Number of arbitrators </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												10. (1) The parties may agree on \r\n												the number of arbitrators and if \r\n												the parties within fourteen days \r\n												of the service of the notice of \r\n												arbitration on the respondent, \r\n												do not agree on the number of \r\n												arbitrators, three arbitrators \r\n												shall be appointed. &nbsp;(2) Where \r\n												the arbitration agreement \r\n												provides for the appointment of \r\n												an even number of arbitrators\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.05pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrators shall within \r\n												fourteen days of their \r\n												appoint­ment appoint an \r\n												additional arbitrator to be the \r\n												umpire;</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.05pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;<i>(b) </i>if the arbitrators \r\n												are unable to appoint the \r\n												additional arbi­trator within \r\n												the specified time, the Centre \r\n												shall appoint the additional \r\n												arbitrator to be the umpire.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: -.05pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Appointment of arbitrators\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												11. (1) If the parties in their \r\n												agreement name an arbitrator or \r\n												specify a method of appointment \r\n												of an arbitrator, that \r\n												designation shall be followed, \r\n												except that the parties shall \r\n												provide the Centre with the full \r\n												names, addresses, nationalities \r\n												and qualifications of the \r\n												arbitrators named by them.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.55pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) If the parties do not name \r\n												an arbitrator or provide a \r\n												method for the appointment of an \r\n												arbitrator, but have provided \r\n												for the appoint­ment of a sole \r\n												arbitrator, either party may \r\n												propose to the other party\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.55pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the full names, addresses, \r\n												nationalities and qualifications \r\n												of one or more persons, one of \r\n												whom would serve as the sole \r\n												arbitrator, or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: -.05pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												that the Centre should appoint \r\n												the sole arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) If within fourteen days of a \r\n												proposal being made under \r\n												subrule <i>(2)(a) </i>the \r\n												parties are unable to reach an \r\n												agreement, the appointment of \r\n												the sole arbitrator shall be \r\n												made by the Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) Where the arbitration \r\n												agreement requires the \r\n												appointment of three arbitrators \r\n												and the parties have not \r\n												specified the method of \r\n												appointment or where the parties \r\n												have not agreed on the number of \r\n												arbi­trators, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: -.05pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												each party shall appoint one \r\n												arbitrator; and </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.05pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the appointed arbitrators shall \r\n												appoint the third arbitrator who \r\n												shall be the umpire. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.05pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) Where the arbitrators \r\n												appointed by the parties fail to \r\n												appoint an umpire, the umpire \r\n												shall be appointed by the \r\n												Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) Where under subrule (4), a \r\n												party who is given notification \r\n												of appointment of arbitrator \r\n												does not within fourteen days of \r\n												the notifica­tion appoint an \r\n												arbitrator and notify the other \r\n												party of the appointment, that \r\n												other party shall request the \r\n												Centre to appoint the second \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) If the arbitration agreement \r\n												does not specify a period of \r\n												time for the appointment of an \r\n												arbitrator, the Centre shall \r\n												request the parties to make the \r\n												appointment within fourteen days \r\n												and if any party or all the \r\n												parties fail to make the \r\n												appointment the Centre shall \r\n												appoint the arbitrator. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(8) A party who has to appoint \r\n												an arbitrator may request from \r\n												the Centre a list of arbitrators \r\n												from the register of \r\n												arbitrators, from which the \r\n												party may make the appointment, \r\n												and Centre shall provide the \r\n												list. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(9) Where the Centre has to \r\n												appoint an arbitrator, </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the Centre shall, after the \r\n												filing of the notice of \r\n												arbitration, submit to each \r\n												party at the same time an \r\n												identical list of five persons \r\n												from the register, and </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												each party shall within seven \r\n												days from the submission of the \r\n												list cross out any two names to \r\n												which the party objects and \r\n												number the remaining names in \r\n												order of preference and return \r\n												the list to the Centre. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(10) If a party fails to return \r\n												the list within the specified \r\n												time, all persons on the list \r\n												shall be considered acceptable \r\n												to that party and the Centre \r\n												shall be entitled to appoint any \r\n												of the persons on the list\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(11) The Centre shall, in \r\n												accordance with the order of \r\n												preference'' indicated on the \r\n												returned lists, appoint the \r\n												arbitrator and notify the \r\n												arbi­trator and the parties \r\n												within seven days of the \r\n												appointment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(12) The appointed arbitrator \r\n												shall within seven days of being \r\n												notified, inform the Centre of \r\n												the acceptance or rejection of \r\n												the appoint­ment. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(13) If </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 13.15pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the parties fail to agree upon \r\n												a1 y of the persons named,</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 13.15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												&nbsp;<i>(b) </i>the acceptable \r\n												arbitrator is unable to act, or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												for any other reason the \r\n												appointment cannot be made from \r\n												the submitted list, the Centre \r\n												shall appoint the arbitrator \r\n												from among persons on the \r\n												register without the submission \r\n												of an additional list to the \r\n												parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Nationality of arbitrator in \r\n												international arbitration </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.85pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												12. In an international \r\n												arbitration, unless the parties \r\n												agree otherwise, the choice of \r\n												arbitrators shall reflect the \r\n												nationality of the parties, \r\n												except that a sole arbitrator \r\n												shall be of neutral nationality.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Considerations in the choice of \r\n												arbitrator by the Centre </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												13. The Centre in appointing an \r\n												arbitrator shall have regard\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												to any qualification required of \r\n												the arbitrator by the \r\n												arbi­tration agreement or agreed \r\n												upon by the parties, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												to the independence and \r\n												impartiality of the person \r\n												intended to be appointed, and\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												in the case of a sole arbitrator \r\n												in an international \r\n												arbitra­tion, to the neutral \r\n												nationality of the person \r\n												intended to be appointed. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Description of proposed \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .9pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												14. Where a party or the Centre \r\n												appoints an arbitrator, it shall \r\n												give the full name, address, \r\n												nationality and qualification of \r\n												the arbitrator to the other \r\n												party and the Centre or to both \r\n												parties as is appropriate.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Disclosure by proposed \r\n												arbitrator </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												15. (1) The Centre shall require \r\n												a person appointed as an \r\n												arbitrator to disclose in \r\n												writing any circumstances likely \r\n												to affect that person''s \r\n												independence or impartiality \r\n												including any bias or any \r\n												financial or personal interest \r\n												in the result of the arbitration \r\n												or any past or present \r\n												relationship with any of the \r\n												parties or their counsel, and \r\n												the arbitrator shall make the \r\n												disclosure to the Centre and the \r\n												parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The Centre shall notify the \r\n												parties of any disclosure made \r\n												under subrule (1). </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Challenge of arbitrator </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												16. (1) A party may challenge \r\n												the appointment of an arbitrator \r\n												if <i>(a) </i>there are \r\n												circumstances that raise doubts \r\n												as to the indepen­dence or \r\n												impartiality of the arbitrator, \r\n												or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator does not possess \r\n												the qualifications agreed on by \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) A party may only challenge \r\n												an arbitrator appointed by that \r\n												party or in whose appointment \r\n												that party has participated for \r\n												reasons which that party becomes \r\n												aware of after the appointment.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Challenge procedure </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												17. (1) Parties to a dispute may \r\n												within fourteen days of the \r\n												appointment of the arbitrator \r\n												jointly challenge the arbitrator \r\n												by filing a written statement of \r\n												the reasons of the challenge \r\n												with the arbitrator and other \r\n												members of the arbitral tribunal \r\n												and the Centre. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 2.1pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) The Centre on receipt of a \r\n												challenge under subrule (1) \r\n												shall replace the challenged \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A party may challenge an \r\n												arbitrator in writing with \r\n												stated reasons, to the \r\n												arbitrator, the other members of \r\n												the arbitral tribunal and the \r\n												Centre, within fourteen days of \r\n												the appointment of the \r\n												arbitrator. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) The Centre on receipt of a \r\n												challenge from a party shall \r\n												communicate the challenge to the \r\n												other party who shall within \r\n												seven days of the communication \r\n												send a response to the Centre.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.6pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(5) If the other party endorses \r\n												a challenge raised by one party, \r\n												the Centre shall replace the \r\n												challenged arbitrator. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(6) If the other party objects \r\n												to the challenge, and the \r\n												challenged arbitrator does not \r\n												resign, the Centre shall hold a \r\n												hearing with the parties and the \r\n												challenged arbitrator within \r\n												seven days of the objection, and \r\n												determine whether the challenged \r\n												arbitrator should be maintained \r\n												or replaced. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(7) The decision of the Centre \r\n												as to whether a challenged \r\n												arbitrator over whom there is no \r\n												agreement should be maintained \r\n												or replaced shall be binding on \r\n												the parties. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(8) An arbitrator who is \r\n												challenged may withdraw, but \r\n												the'' withdrawal of an arbitrator \r\n												does not imply an acceptance of \r\n												the validity of the challenge.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												Revocation of an arbitrator''s \r\n												authority </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .15pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												18. (1) The parties may agree on \r\n												the circumstances under which \r\n												the appointment of an arbitrator \r\n												may be revoked. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(2) Unless the parties have \r\n												agreed on the circumstances for \r\n												revo­cation, the appointment of \r\n												an arbitrator shall only be \r\n												revoked </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												by the parties acting jointly or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												by the Centre acting on the \r\n												application of a party. </span>\r\n												</p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: .4pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(3) A party may at any time \r\n												during arbitral proceedings \r\n												apply to the Centre on notice to \r\n												the other party for the \r\n												revocation of the arbitrator''s \r\n												appointment on the grounds that\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(a) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												there is sufficient reason to \r\n												doubt the arbitrator''s \r\n												impar­tiality, </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(b) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator does not possess \r\n												the qualification required by \r\n												the arbitration agreement.\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.3pt">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(c) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator is physically or \r\n												mentally incapable or there is \r\n												justificable doubt as to the \r\n												arbitrator''s capacity of \r\n												conducting the proceedings, or\r\n												</span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(d) </span></i>\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												the arbitrator has refused or \r\n												failed to </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(i) properly conduct the \r\n												proceedings, or </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 3.3pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(ii) use reasonable despatch in \r\n												conducting the proceedings or \r\n												making an award. </span></p>\r\n												<p class="Style" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.35pt">\r\n												<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">\r\n												(4) If within seven days of the \r\n												submission of an application \r\n												un­der subrule (3) there is no \r\n												objection from the other party, \r\n												the Centre shall invite the \r\n												applicant and the arbitrator for \r\n												a hearing and if satisfied with \r\n												the grounds of the application \r\n												revoke the appointme