§ 172.062.Termination of Mandate

A short section that gathers the ways an arbitrator’s authority ends.

Withdrawal from office is the first. An arbitrator may step down.

Agreement of the parties is the second. Those who constituted the tribunal may unmake it.

The third is by cross-reference to Sections 172.059, 172.060 and 172.061 — a successful challenge before the tribunal, a challenge sustained by the court, or termination for inability or failure to act.

The list is a map rather than a new rule. Each route is governed by its own section.

"Mandate" is the chapter’s word for an arbitrator’s authority, borrowed from the international model this chapter follows.

Termination of one arbitrator is not termination of the arbitration. Section 172.063 provides for a substitute appointed under the rules that governed the original appointment.

The tribunal as a whole has its own end point. Section 172.118(c) provides that the mandate of the tribunal ends with the termination of the arbitration, subject to the correction and additional-award sections.

Gathering the grounds in one place is useful in practice, because the consequences — substitution, repeated hearings, the validity of earlier rulings — are all governed by the section that follows.