28. The Minister may refer any of the claims aforesaid either to one or to the three arbitrators as he may see fit.
When any claim has been referred to one arbitrator only, such arbitrator shall alone be entitled to take the evidence, hear the parties and pronounce the award, and such award shall be binding, saving the appeal hereinafter provided for.
In any case in which the claim is referred to the three arbitrators, any one of them may receive the evidence and hear the parties, and may exercise all the powers of the arbitrators preliminary or incident to the hearing and to the taking of the evidence, which evidence shall thereafter be submitted to all the arbitrators, and the award of the majority shall be final and without appeal.
R. S. 1964, c. 138, s. 28.