SCHEDULE ACAS ARBITRATION SCHEME
XXV. CHALLENGING THE AWARD Time limits and procedural restrictions on challenges to awards: Scottish arbitrations 206S An appeal under paragraphs 188S, 195S or 201S may not be brought if the appellant has not first exhausted any available recourse under Part XXIII of the Scheme (Correction of Awards).
207S An appeal under paragraphs 188S, 195S or (where the parties have agreed under paragraph 202S(i)) 201S or an application for leave to appeal under paragraph 202S(ii) shall be lodged within 28 days of whichever is the later of:
(i) the date on which the award was despatched to the appellant by ACAS;
(ii) where, a correction or additional award has been made in accordance with Part XXIII above, the date on which a memorandum of correction or additional award under Part XXIII above was despatched to the appellant by ACAS; and
(iii) where a party has applied for a correction or additional award under paragraph 172 above but the arbitrator has declined to make any correction or additional award, the date on which intimation of the arbitrator’s decision was despatched to the appellant by ACAS.
208S If on an appeal under paragraphs 188S, 195S or 201S it appears to the Court that the award and the arbitrator’s Note:
(i) do not contain the arbitrator’s reasons, or
(ii) do not set out the arbitrator’s reasons in sufficient detail to enable the Court properly to consider the application or appeal,
the Court may order the arbitrator to state the reasons for his or her award in sufficient detail for that purpose.