(1)Where it appears to the arbitration tribunal that a transaction in respect of which an application is made under section 30 or section 31 above is or may be one of a group of inter-connected transactions which ought to be treated for the purposes of that section as a single transaction, they may order such additional persons as they think fit, being parties to any transaction comprised in the group, to be made parties to the application, and, if the tribunal are satisfied that the whole or part of the group of transactions ought to be treated as a single transaction for the purposes of that section, they may give a direction to that effect, and that section shall have effect accordingly.
(2)The serving of a Schedule 4 notice in relation to any property or rights shall not prejudice the taking of proceedings under either of the sections referred to in subsection (1) above with respect to any transaction relating to that property or those rights, and any such proceedings and any proceedings pursuant to the notice may, if the arbitration tribunal think fit, be heard together, and any sums ordered by the tribunal in the proceedings under either of those sections to be paid by any person may, if the tribunal think fit, be set off against any compensation payable to that person in the proceedings pursuant to the notice.