C-25 - Code of Civil Procedure

Section 944 Disposition versions

1986-11-11

944. A party intending to submit a dispute to arbitration must notify the other party of his intention, specifying the matter in dispute.

The arbitration proceedings commence on the date of service of the notice.

1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 944; 1986, c. 73, s. 2.

1977-12-31

944. The submission is inoperative:

(1)  in the case of the death, refusal, withdrawal or inability to act of one of the arbitrators, unless some clause provides that it shall avail notwithstanding, or that such arbitrator shall be replaced by another chosen by the parties or by the remaining arbitrator or arbitrators, or otherwise;

(2)  in the case of the decision not being given before the expiration of the delay fixed;

(3)  by the loss of the thing or the extinction of the obligation which forms the subject of the submission.

1965 (1st sess.), c. 80, a. 944.