Section 65

This Act applies to arbitration proceedings commenced on or after the commencement of this Act but the parties may in writing agree that this

Act applies to any arbitration proceedings commenced before that date.

Notwithstanding the repeal of the Arbitration Act (Chapter 173), where the arbitration proceedings were commenced before the commencement of this Act, the law governing the arbitration agreement and the arbitration shall be the law which would have applied if this Act had not been made.

Where an arbitration agreement made or entered into before the commencement of this Act provides for the appointment of an umpire or an arbitral tribunal comprising two arbitrators, the law to the extent that it governs the appointment, role and function of the umpire shall be the law which would have applied if this Act had not been made.

For the purposes of this section, arbitration proceedings are to be taken as having commenced on the date of the receipt by the respondent of a request for the dispute to be referred to arbitration or, where the parties have agreed in writing that any other date is to be taken as the date of commencement of the arbitration proceedings, then on that date.