Arbitration rules

(1) The rules of a friendly society shall provide that disputes which may arise between any member and the trustees, committee or officers, shall be settled by arbitration. (2) The number of arbitrators and mode of selection shall be stated in the rules. (3) If an arbitrator neglects or refuses to act, the members at a general meeting or general committee thereof shall forthwith elect and appoint some other person to be an arbitrator in his place. (4) The rules shall direct how the arbitrators shall determine such disputes, and the award made by them shall be final and binding on all parties without appeal to any court of law. (5) If either party refuses or neglects to comply with the decision of the arbitrators, the magistrate nearest to the place within which the friendly society is established, upon good and sufficient proof being adduced before him of such award having been made, and of the refusal of the party to comply therewith, upon complaint made by or on behalf of the party aggrieved, may summon the party against whom such complaint is made, to appear at a time and place to be named in such summons, and upon his or her appearance, or in default thereof, upon proof upon oath of the service of such summons, may make such order thereupon as may to him seem just. (6) If the sum of money awarded, together with the costs of and attending such order are not duly paid, such order shall be enforced in the same manner as any conviction in a court of summary jurisdiction.