1. Where both parties are entitled to appoint arbitrators, the party initiating the arbitration procedure shall notify the other party in writing of the arbitrator he has appointed, and call upon the latter to do the same within a period of seven (7) days.
2. In default of appointment of an arbitrator within the said period, the competent court shall, upon the application of the party initiating the arbitration procedure, appoint an arbitrator.

1. The parties may challenge an arbitrator on the same grounds and conditions as they might challenge a judge (*).
2. Apart from the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the parties may challenge an arbitrator appointed otherwise than by the arbitration agreement, if he unduly delays the performance of his duties.
3. The parties may challenge an arbitrator who is legally incapable, deaf, dumb, or deprived of, or suspended from the exercise of, his civil rights.

1. The arbitrators, before making an award, shall hear the parties, and, insofar as they deem it necessary, investigate the facts that formed the cause of the dispute.
2. In the absence of the agreement between the parties on the arbitration procedure, the arbitrators shall determine such procedure at their own discretion.

1. The arbitrators may examine witnesses and experts who voluntarily appear before them.
2. The arbitrators have no power to administer an oath to any witness or expert.

1. Any act which the arbitrators consider necessary for the making of the award, but which they have no power to perform shall, on the application of the parties, be performed by the competent court, provided that the court deems such application proper.
2. The court which ordered a witness or an expert to give testimony or expert opinion shall, in case he refuses to do so, have the power to make a decision as may be necessary.

1. The award shall bear the date on which it was drawn up, and shall be signed and sealed by the arbitrators.
2. Authentic copies of the award signed and sealed by the arbitrators shall be served on the parties, and the original thereof, with certificates of service, shall be deposited with the competent court.

1. Application to set aside the award may be made in any of the following cases:
   1. Where the arbitration procedure was not permissible;
   2. Where the arbitration award ordered a party to do an act prohibited by law;
   3. Where a party was not represented in the arbitration procedure in accordance with the provision of law;
   4. Where a party was not heard in the arbitration procedure;
   5. Where the award is not accompanied by reasons;
   6. Where there is any of the grounds for an action for a new trial under Article 420, items 4 to 8 (**).
2. The award cannot be set aside on the grounds mentioned in Article 801, paragraph 1, Nos. 4 and 5, where otherwise agreed between the parties.

1. Execution by virtue of the award can be carried out only when such execution has been declared permissible by an execution judgement.
2. The foregoing execution judgement shall not be rendered where there is any ground for making an application to set aside the award.

1. In the case mentioned in the preceding article, an action for setting aside the award must be instituted within a peremptory term of one month.
2. The foregoing term shall begin to run from the day on which the party has come to know the ground for setting aside the award, but not before the execution judgement becomes final. After the expiration of five (5) years from the day on which the execution judgement becomes final, the action may not be instituted.
3. When setting aside the award, the court shall also declare that the execution judgement is set aside.

1. The court competent to entertain actions for the appointment of, or challenge to, arbitrators, the termination of the arbitration agreement, the disallowance of arbitration, the setting aside of the award, or the rendering of the execution judgement shall be the summary court or district court designated in the arbitration agreement. In the absence of such designation, the summary or district court, which would be competent in case the claim was judicially made, shall have jurisdiction.
2. In case there are two or more courts having jurisdiction under the preceding paragraph, the court to which the parties or arbitrators first resorted shall be competent.

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Article 420

A conclusive and final judgement may be appealed against in the form of an action for a new trial for any one of the reasons, except where the party has in an appeal asserted it or knowingly has not asserted it. , ii. and iii. omitted. If a judge who participated in a decision was guilty of an offence relating to his official duties in connection with the case tried before him; If a party was, by a criminally punishable act of another person, led to make confession or prevented from producing a means of attack or defence which may affect a judgement; If a document or any other object which was produced in evidence and on which the judgement was based was a forged or fraudulently altered matter; If the judgement was based on a false statement of a witness, expert, or interpreter or a sworn party or legal representative; If a civil or criminal judgement or any other judicial decision or an administrative decision on which the judgement was based has been altered by a subsequent judicial or administrative decision; and x. omitted. and 3 omitted.