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Limitation
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(8) References in this section to section 27 include references to that section as extended by any provision of this Part and Part IV. (Replaced, 67 of 1976, s. 5)
31–33. [Repealed, 67 of 1976, s. 5]
Application of Ordinance and other limitation enactments to arbitrations. 1939 c. 21, s. 27.
PART IV
GENERAL
34. (1) This Ordinance and any other Ordinance or imperial enactment relating to the limitation of actions shall apply to arbitrations as they apply to actions in the High Court.
(2) Notwithstanding any term in an arbitration agreement to the effect that no cause of action shall accrue in respect of any matter required by the agreement to be referred until an award is made under the agreement, the cause of action shall, for the purpose of this Ordinance and of any other such Ordinance or imperial enactment (whether in their application to arbitrations or to other proceedings), be deemed to have accrued in respect of any such matter at the time when it would have accrued but for that term in the agreement.
(3) For the purpose of this Ordinance and of any other such Ordinance or imperial enactment as aforesaid, an arbitration shall be deemed to be commenced when one party to the arbitration serves on the other party or parties a notice requiring him or them to appoint an arbitrator or to agree to the appointment of an arbitrator, or, where the arbitration agreement provides that the reference shall be to a person named or designated in the agreement, requiring him or them to submit the dispute to the person so named or designated.
(4) Any such notice as aforesaid may be served either-
(a) by delivering it to the person on whom it is to be served; or (b) by leaving it at the usual or last known place of abode of
that person; or
(c) by sending it by post in a registered letter addressed to that
person at his usual or last known place of abode,
as well as in any other manner provided in the arbitration agreement; and where a notice is sent by post in manner prescribed by paragraph (c), service thereof shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been effected at the time at which the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post.
(5) Where the court orders that an award be set aside or orders, after the commencement of an arbitration, that the arbitration shall cease to have effect with respect to the dispute referred, the court may further order that the period between the commencement of the arbitration and the date of the order of the court shall be