Arbitration Act

If a business operator is to become the arbitration petitioner in an arbitration procedure based on a consumer arbitration agreement, that business operator must, without delay after the arbitral tribunal is organized, file a petition to hold oral hearings under the provisions of Article 3234, paragraph (1). In this case, the arbitral tribunal must decide to hold the oral hearings and notify both the parties of the date, time and place.

In addition to what is provided for in the preceding two Articles, if a party became aware, before this Act comes into effect, that the arbitral tribunal had been organized and that there was any of the grounds referred to in the items of Article 1820, paragraph (1) with respect to the arbitrator, then with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 1921, paragraph (3), the phrase "the day on which they became aware that the arbitral tribunal had been organized or the day on which they became aware of the existence of any grounds referred to in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, whichever comes later" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the day on which this Act comes into effect".