Arbitration Act (Cap. 387), article 71A

71A. (1) The following provisions shall apply to an application to set aside or an appeal under article 70, 70A or 70C. (2) An application may not be brought if the applicant or appell ant has not first exhausted - (a) any available contractual process of appeal or review; and (b) any available recourse under articles 47 (interpretation of the award), 48 (correction of the award) or 49 (additional award). (3) Any request made in terms of articles 47, 48 or 49 shall have the effect of interrupting the time-limits for recourse ag ainst an award specified in article 70(4) or article 70B(2). The peri od for recourse established in the said articles shall run from the da te on which any order made in terms of the said articles 47, 48 and 4 9 is communicated to the party. (4) The rights of recourse as provided in article 70 or 70A or 70C are mutually exclusive and cannot both be exercised simultaneously and an appeal on a point of law or on a point of fact shall exclude the right to apply to set aside the award: provid ed that when a party has applied to the Court to set aside an award, he may, in subsidium , appeal on points of law or on point of fact provided he does so in the same application. (5) If on an application to set aside or on an appeal it appears to the Court that the award does not contain the tribunal’s reason s or does not set out the tribunal’s reasons in sufficient detail to enab le the court properly to consider the application or appeal, the court may r equest the tribunal to give an interpretation of the award in accordan ce with the terms of article 47(2). (6) In making an order under the preceding subarticle the court may make an order on costs arising from its order. ARBITRATION [CAP. 387. 31 Condition for application: supplemental provisions. Added by: XXXI. 2002.250. Amended by: IX. 2004.25.