First Schedule
The Arbitration Rules
1.These Rules may be cited as the Arbitration Rules.2.An award may be filed or registered in the court by a party with the registrar of the High Court or in the district registry of the High Court within the local limits of which the arbitration has been held.3.An award on being filed or registered shall be given its serial number in the civil list, and all subsequent proceedings in connection with it shall be similarly numbered.4.Any party filing an award shall serve notice of the filing or registering of an award upon the other parties and shall forthwith certify in writing to the registrar of the High Court the date and manner of each such service effected.5.Where a special case has been stated under section 39 of the Act, the case stated and all relevant papers must be lodged with the registrar or a district registrar of the High Court, as the case may be, together with the necessary fees and the names of the parties interested and their addresses.6.The court shall thereupon cause notice of hearing to be sent to the parties interested and after hearing such of them as desire to be heard shall transmit a certified copy of its finding to the arbitrators by whom the case was stated.7.(1)Any party who objects to an award filed or registered in the court may, within ninety days after notice of the filing of the award has been served upon that party, apply for the award to be set aside and lodge his or her objections to it, together with necessary copies and fees for serving them upon the other parties interested.(2)The parties on whom the objections are served may, within fourteen days after the date of service of the objections, lodge cross objections which shall be served on the original objector.8.The objections to the award and the cross objections (if any) shall thereafter be set down for hearing, and the original objector shall occupy the position of plaintiff and the other parties that of defendants.9.An application for stay of proceedings under section 5 of the Act shall be by motion, with notice to the party commencing legal proceedings, supported by affidavit.10.If on the hearing of the motion the court orders the proceedings to be stayed, it may direct by whom the costs in the action are to be borne and may order the arbitrators or umpire to include in their award the taxed costs or such sum as the court may fix in lieu of taxed costs.11.An application to enforce an award as a decree of court under section 35 of the Act shall not be made, if no objections to the award are lodged, until the expiration of ninety days after notice of the filing or registering of the award has been served upon the party against whom the award is to be enforced, and if objections are lodged, until the objections have been dealt with by the court.12.Where a party who has been ordered by an award to pay a sum of money or to hand over movable property lodges objections to the award, any other party interested in the award may apply to the court for an order directing the objector to give security for the enforcement of the award and of any costs that may be ordered in the objection proceedings, and the court may thereupon order security to be given in like manner as though the objector were appealing against a decree.13.All applications for the appointment of or challenge to arbitrators, and all other applications under the Act, other than those directed by these Rules to be otherwise made, shall be made by way of chamber summons supported by affidavit.14.(1)The court fee payable on filing or registering an award in the court shall be ten thousand shillings.(2)All other fees for other proceedings under the Act or these Rules shall be such fees as may be prescribed from time to time by rules of court in the table of fees leviable in the High Court in similar matters.
Second Schedule
Forms
Republic of Uganda
Form I
Submission to a Single Arbitrator
In the matter of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act—Whereas differences have arisen and are still subsisting between____________________________________ of _________________________________________________ and _______________________________ of ____________________________________ concerning _______________________________________________________.Now we, ___________________________________________________ and___________________________________________ do agree to refer the matters in difference to the award of__________________________________________________________________________________________.(Signed)__________________________________________________________________________________________Dated the__________________________________________________________________________________________Note: This form may be modified as necessary in the case of submission to more than one arbitrator.Form II
Appointment of single arbitrator under agreement to refer future differences to arbitration
In the matter of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act—Whereas, by an agreement in writing, dated the____________________________________________________ day of _______________________, and made between________________________________ of _________________________________and _________________________________________________________ of ____________________________________,it is provided that differences arising between the parties to the agreement shall be referred to an arbitrator as mentioned in the agreement:And whereas differences within the meaning of that provision have arisen and are still subsisting between the parties concerning ____________________________________________.Now we, the parties, _________________________________________________ and ________________________________________________________________, do refer the matter in difference to the award of___________________________________________________.(Signed)______________________________________________________Dated the_________________________Note: This form may be modified as necessary in the case of submission to more than one arbitrator.Form III
Enlargement of time by arbitrator by endorsement on agreement
In the matter of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, and an arbitration between____________________________________________________ of _________________________________________________ and ____________________________________________ of ___________________________________________________.I enlarge the time of making my award in respect of the matters in difference referred to me by the within (or above) agreement until the _______day of ______________(Signed)_____________________________________________________________________ArbitratorForm IV
Special case
In the matter of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, and an arbitrationbetween ______________________________________ of __________________________________________________________ and ___________________________________________________________ of ___________________________________________________________.The following special case is, pursuant to the provisions of section 39(2), stated for the opinion of the High Court.(Here state the facts concisely in numbered paragraphs).The questions of law for the opinion of that court are—Firstly, whether____________________________________________________________Secondly, whether____________________________________________________________(Signed)_____________________________________________________________________________ArbitratorDated the ____________ day of __________, 20 ________________Form V
Award
In the matter of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, and an arbitration between __________________________________________ of ________________________________________ and _____________________________________________________ of __________________________________________________________________.Whereas, under an agreement in writing, dated the ____ day of _______________________, made between ____________________________________ of _______________________________________ and __________________________________________________________________, _________________________________________________ and _________________________________________________ have referred to me _____________________________________________________________________________ the matters in difference between themconcerning (or as the case may be):Now I, ______________________________________________________________________, having duly considered the matters submitted to me do make an award as follows —I award—1.That __________________________________________________________________________________________2.That __________________________________________________________________________________________(Signed)__________________________________________________________________________________________ArbitratorDated the