[HK] AO Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance
[HK] AO
Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance
(1) The Limitation Ordinance (Cap. 347) and any other Ordinance relating to the limitation of actions (limitation enactments) apply to arbitrations as they apply to actions in the court.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a reference in a limitation enactment to bringing an action is to be construed as, in relation to an arbitration, commencing the arbitral proceedings.
(3) Despite any term in an arbitration agreement to the effect that no cause of action may accrue in respect of any matter required by the agreement to be submitted to arbitration until an award is made under the agreement, the cause of action is, for the purposes of the limitation enactments (whether in their application to arbitrations or to other proceedings), deemed to accrue in respect of that matter at the time when it would have accrued but for that term.
(4) If a court orders that an award is to be set aside, the period between—
(a) the commencement of the arbitral proceedings; and
(b) the date of the order of the court setting aside the award,
must be excluded in computing the time prescribed by a limitation enactment for the commencement of proceedings (including arbitral proceedings) with respect to the matter submitted to arbitration.
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