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No. 3 of 1901.
CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
Application to set aside award. O. 64, r. 14: Enforcement of award. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 49, s. 12. O. 42, r. 31A. Reference for report. 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49, s. 88. Reference for trial. 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 49, s. 89. Powers of referee, and
549. An application to set aside an award may be made within one month after such award has been made and published to the parties.
550.-(1) An award may, by leave of the court, be enforced in the same manner as a judgment or order of the court to the same effect.
(2) An award may, by leave of the court and on such terms as may be just, be enforced at any time, though the time for applying to set it aside has not elapsed.
Reference under order of court.
551.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Code and to any right to have particular cases tried by a jury, the court may refer to a special referee for inquiry or report any question arising in any cause or matter, other than a criminal proceeding by the Crown.
(2) The report of a special referee may be adopted wholly or partially by the court and, if so adopted, may be enforced in the same manner as judgment or order of the court to the same effect.
552. In any cause or matter, other than a criminal proceeding by the Crown-
(a) if all the parties interested who are not under disability consent; or
(b) if the cause or matter requires any prolonged examination of documents or any scientific or local investigation which cannot, in the opinion of the court, conveniently be made before a jury or conducted by the court through its other ordinary officers; or
(c) if the question in dispute consists wholly or in part of matters of account,
the court may at any time order the whole cause or matter, or any question or issue of fact arising therein, to be tried before a special referee or arbitrator respectively agreed on by the parties or before an officer of the court.
553. In every case of reference to a special referee or arbitrator or to an officer of the court under an order of the court in
* As amended by Law Rev: Ord., 1939.
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