(2) The Court shall determine an application for leave to appeal without a hearing unless it appears to the Court that a hearing is required.
(3) For the purposes of this section—
- (a) an application for leave of the Court may be heard and determined by a Judge in Chambers; and
- (b) the Court of Appeal shall have the like powers and jurisdiction on the hearing of such applications as the High Court or any Judge in Chambers has on the hearing of such applications.
PART X
MISCELLANEOUS
Notice and other requirements in connection with legal proceedings
53.—(1) References in this Act to an application, appeal or other step in relation to legal proceedings being taken upon notice to the other parties to the arbitration proceedings, or to the arbitral tribunal, are references to such notice of the originating process as is required by the Rules of Court.
(2) Subject to any provision made by Rules of Court, a requirement to give notice to the arbitral tribunal of legal proceedings shall be construed—
- (a) if there is more than one arbitrator, as a requirement to give notice to each of them; and
- (b) if the arbitral tribunal is not fully constituted, as a requirement to give notice to any arbitrator who has been appointed.
(3) References in this Act to making an application or appeal to the Court within a specified period are references to the issue within that period of the appropriate originating process in accordance with the Rules of Court.
(4) Where any provision of this Act requires an application or appeal to be made to the Court within a specified time, the Rules of Court relating to the reckoning of periods, the extending or abridging of periods, and the consequences of not taking a step within the period prescribed by the Rules, shall apply in relation to that requirement.
