SCHEDULEACAS ARBITRATION SCHEME

XXV. CHALLENGING THE AWARD

Time limits and other procedural restrictions on challenges to awards: English/Welsh arbitrations

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Section 70 of the Arbitration Act 199613 shall apply to English/Welsh arbitrations conducted in accordance with the Scheme, subject to the following modifications—

i

in subsection (1), after the words “section 67, 68 or 69” insert the words “(as modified for the purposes of the Scheme)”;

ii

omit paragraph (a) from subsection (2);

iii

in subsection (2)(b), for “section 57 (correction of award or additional award)” substitute “Part XXIII of the Scheme (Correction of Awards)”;

iv

for subsection (3), for “of the award or, if there has been any arbitral process of appeal or review, of the date when the applicant or appellant was notified of the result of that process” substitute “the award was despatched to the applicant or appellant by ACAS, or if an application for a correction or additional award under paragraph 172 has been made and declined, the date on which the arbitrator’s decision was despatched to the applicant or appellant by ACAS”;

v

omit subsection (5);

vi

after subsection (8), insert—

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In this section, “the Scheme” means the arbitration scheme set out in the Schedule to the ACAS Arbitration Scheme (Great Britain) Order 2004.