§ 172.150.Applicable Law

A cross-reference section that keeps post-award documents to the same standard as the award.

Four sections are applied — Sections 172.141, 172.142, 172.144 and 172.145.

Form comes first. A correction, interpretation or additional award is written, signed, reasoned where reasons are required, and dated and placed under Section 172.141.

Delivery follows. A signed copy goes to each party under Section 172.142.

Interest may be awarded under Section 172.144, which matters most for an additional award deciding an omitted claim.

Costs may be allocated under Section 172.145, so the expense of the further proceeding can be assigned.

Two documents are covered: a correction or interpretation under Section 172.147, and an additional award under Section 172.148.

The purpose is enforceability. A correction that becomes part of the award, or an additional award standing on its own, has to satisfy the same formal requirements to be enforced.

The section closes Subchapter F, and with it the arbitration side of the chapter. Subchapter G turns to the courts, and Subchapter H to conciliation.

The section prevents a gap. Without it, a corrected or additional award might be argued to lack the formal requirements the original had to meet.

Reasons follow from the form requirement. An additional award deciding an omitted claim states the reasons on which it is based, like any other award.

Four sections are applied and others are not. The correction and additional-award provisions are not applied to themselves, so a correction cannot be corrected indefinitely.