The Chamber through the Arbitration Center plays an important role in the settlement of disputes through arbitration by providing support services to the lawsuit procedures of the disputes coming from the judicial authorities concerned. The Center provided a number of legal researchers to takeover the responsibility of secretariats of the arbitration for accredited bodies to enhance the dissemination of the arbitration culture and facilitate the ways of resorting to them.
The Center takeover the responsibility of the secretariat of the arbitration, if it has been agreed on in the arbitration document by both parties of the arbitration to provide the secretariat work through the secretary of the authority appointed by Riyadh Chamber by following up the procedures of the cases referred to it. It coordinates with the members of the arbitration authority, the parties ofthe case and the experts if required by the authority to receive and hand over the notes from and to the parties of the dispute and the organization until sentencing.
Service Requirements and Conditions:
There must be a previous agreement between the parties of the dispute on the arbitration whether it was independent or set forth in an agreement.
The arbitration agreement can be subsequent to the outbreak of the dispute.
The arbitration agreement shall be in writing otherwise it will be void and null.
The agreement on the arbitration shall not be entered into except by the person who has the power to dispose of his rights whether he is a natural person, his representative or a legal person.
The government authorities shall not agree on the arbitration except after the approval of the Prime Minister unless otherwise provided by a statutory text.
If a dispute for which there is an arbitration agreement is referred to the competent court it should decide the inadmissibility of rehearing a case if the defendant demanded this.
If the arbitration is agreed upon during the consideration of the dispute by the competent court it should decide to refer the dispute to arbitration.