# Administration of Justice Act 1970, Paragraph 8

Extent: E+W

(1) Section 19 of the Act (power of the High Court to order delivery of award on payment of arbitrators’fees into court) shall not apply with respect to the award of a judge-arbitrator or judge-umpire.
(2) A judge-umpire may withhold his award until the fees payable to the arbitrators have been paid into the High Court.
(3) Arbitrators’fees paid into court under this paragraph shall be paid out in accordance with rules of court, subject to the right of any party to the reference to apply (in accordance with the rules) for any fee to be taxed, not being a fee which has been fixed by written agreement between him and the arbitrator.
(4) A taxation under this paragraph may be reviewed in the same manner as a taxation of the costs of an award.
(5) On a taxation under this paragraph, or on a reveiw thereof, an arbitrator shall be entitled to appear and be heard.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/31/schedule/3/paragraph/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970/schedule-3/paragraph-8
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