China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Arbitration Rules (2015)

Adopted: November 4 2014

Effective: January 1 2015

Main contents: The amendments to the Rules add a part entitled Special Provisions for Arbitration in Hong Kong, which specifies that the place of arbitration of cases managed by the Commission's Hong Kong arbitration centre is Hong Kong, the arbitration procedure is governed by Hong Kong arbitration law and the arbitration award is a Hong Kong award, unless otherwise provided by the parties; that the parties have the option of selecting arbitrators that do not appear on CIETAC's directory of arbitrators; and that for the arbitration charges, the normal international practice of separately charging an institution management fee and the remuneration of the arbitrators is implemented (Part Six). Before the constitution of a tribunal, a party may apply for emergency interim relief pursuant to the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Emergency Arbitrator Procedure (Article 77). Furthermore, the method of service is amended, adding forms of service such as notarised service, entrusted service and service by the leaving of the documents onsite when a party refuses to accept arbitration documents or service thereof is impossible (Article 8).