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Paragraph 8.10

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Subject always to Clause 8.9 above, the Trustees shall have power to determine all questions and matters of doubt arising in connection with the Scheme or any Section whether relating to the contributions thereto or the benefits thereunder or otherwise and also to settle compromise or submit to arbitration any claims relating to the Scheme or to the rights of any Member or other beneficiary thereunder and no decision of or exercise of a power or discretion by the Trustees shall be invalidated or questioned on the ground that any of the Trustees had a direct or personal interest in the result of any such decision or in the exercise of any such power or discretion, provided always that in the event of any dispute arising as between the Trustees and any person entitled to or claiming to be entitled to any benefit under the Scheme or any Section such dispute may be referred by such person to a single arbitrator to be named by the President for the time being of the Law Society of England and Wales and the arbitrator so names shall have all the powers conferred on arbitrators by the Arbitration Act 1996f1.

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1996 c. 23.