Section 37Sec./Art. 37

Appointment of Foreign Arbitrator. - The Construction Industry Arbitration Commission (CIAC) shall promulgate rules to allow for the appointment of a foreign arbitrator or coarbitrator or chairman of a tribunal a person who has not been previously accredited by CIAC: Provided, That:

(a) the dispute is a construction dispute in which one party is an international party

(b) the person to be appointed agreed to abide by the arbitration rules and policies of CIAC;

(c) he/she is either coarbitrator upon the nomination of the international party; or he/she is the common choice of the two CIAC-accredited arbitrators first appointed one of whom was nominated by the international party; and

(d) the foreign arbitrator shall be of different nationality from the international party.