Specific
14 Geo. 6, c. 27, s. 15.
17. Unless a contrary intention is expressed therein, every arbitra- performance. tion agreement shall, where such a provision is applicable to the reference, be deemed to contain a provision that the arbitrator or umpire shall have the same power as the Court to order specific performance of any contract other than a contract relating to land or any interest in land.
Awards to be final. 14 Geo. 6,
c. 27, s. 16.
Power to
18. Unless a contrary intention is expressed therein, every arbitra- tion agreement shall, where such a provision is applicable to the reference, be deemed to contain a provision that the award to be made by the arbitrator or umpire shall be final and binding on the parties and the persons claiming under them respectively.
19. Unless a contrary intention is expressed in the arbitration correct slips. agreement, the arbitrator or rumpire shall have power to correct in at award any clerical mistake or error arising from any accidental slip or
14 Geo. 6, c. 27. s. 17.
Costs.
14 Geo. 6,
e. 27. a. 18.
omission.
Costs, Fees and Interest.
20. (1) Unless a contrary intention is expressed therein, every arbitration agreement shall be deemed to include a provision that the costs of the reference and award shall be in the discretion of the arbitrator or umpire, who may direct to and by whom and in what manner those costs or any part thereof shall be paid, and may tax or settle the amount of costs to be so paid or any part thereof, and may award costs to be paid as between solicitor and client.
(2) Any costs directed by an award to be paid shall, unless the award otherwise directs, be taxable in the Court.
(3) Any provision in an arbitration agreement to the effect that the parties or any party thereto shall in any event pay their or his own costs of the reference or award or any part thereof shall be void, and this Part shall, in the case of an arbitration agreement containing any such provision, have effect as if that provision were not contained therein:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall invalidate such a provision when it is a part of an agreement to submit to arbitration a dispute which has arisen before the making of that agreement.
(4) If no provision is made by an award with respect to the costs of the reference, any party to the reference may, within fourteen days of the publication of the award or such further time as the Court or a judge thereof may direct, apply to the arbitrator for an order directing by and to whom those costs shall be paid, and thereupon the arbitrator shall, after hearing any party who may desire to be heard, amend bir award by adding thereto such directions as he may think proper with respect to the payment of the costs of the reference.
(5) Section 63 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, which em- (Cap. 199), powers a court before which any proceeding is being heard or is pending to declare a solicitor employed in the proceedings entitled to a charge on the property recovered or preserved in the proceedings, for his taxed costs in reference thereto, shall apply as if an arbitration were a proceeding in the Court, and the Court may make declarations and orders accordingly.
21. (1) If in any case an arbitrator or umpire refuses to deliver Tanation of his award except on payment of the fees demanded by him, the Court arbitrator's or umpire's may, on an application for the purpose, order that the arbitrator or fees. umpire shall deliver the award to the applicant on payment into court 14 Gso. 6, by the applicant of the fees demanded, and further that the fees . 27, s. 19. demanded shall be taxed by the taxing officer and that out of the money paid into court there shall be paid out to the arbitrator or umpire by way of fees such sum as may be found reasonable on taxation and that the balance of the money, if any, shall be paid out to the applicant.
(2) An application for the purposes of this section may be made by any party to the reference unless the fees demanded have been fixed by a written agreement between him and the arbitrator or umpire.
(3) A taxation of fees under this section may be reviewed in the same manner as a taxation of costs.
(4) The arbitrator or umpire shall be entitled to appear and be beard on any taxation or review of taxation under this section.
awards.
22. A sum directed to be paid by an award shall, unless the award loterest on otherwise directs, carry interest as from the date of the award and at
14 Geo. 6. the same rale as a judgment debt.
c. 27, s. 20.
Special Cases, Kemission and Setting aside of Awards, etc.
23. (1) An arbitrator or umpire may, and shall if so directed by Statement the Court, state-
of case. 14 Geo. 6.
(a) any question of law arising in the course of the reference, or a. 27, s. 21. (b) an award or any part of an award.
in the form of a special case for the decision of the Court.
(2) A special case with respect to an interim award or with respect to a question of law arising in the course of a reference may be stated, or may be directed by the Court to be stated, notwithstanding that Proceedings under the reference are still pending.
(3) A decision of the Court under this section shall be deemed to be a decision of the Court within the meaning of section 28 of the Supreme Court Ordinance, which relates to the jurisdiction of the Full (Cap. 4).