Section 12Part 4 — COMMENCEMENT OF ARBITRATION
Commencement of arbitration proceedings
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An arbitration shall, unless otherwise agreed by the parties, commence when —
a party to an arbitration agreement gives the other party notice of an intention to submit a dispute to arbitration in accordance with the agreement;
a party to the arbitration agreement serves on the other party a notice requiring him to appoint or concur in appointing an arbitrator; or
the arbitrator is named in the arbitration agreement and one party serves on the other party a notice requiring him to submit the matter to the arbitrator named.
A notice mentioned in subsection (1) may be served by —
delivering it to the person on whom it is to be served;
leaving it at the person's usual or last known place of residence, or in the case of a body corporate, at its registered office, in the Islands;
sending it by post in a registered letter addressed to that person at his usual or last known place of residence, or in the case of a body corporate, at its registered office, in the Islands; or
in any other manner provided in the arbitration agreement,
and where a notice is sent by post in the manner prescribed in paragraph (c), service shall, unless the contrary intention is proved, be deemed to have been effected at the time at which the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of the post.
Where an arbitration agreement contains provisions in relation to the commencement of arbitration proceedings, those provisions shall be followed.