A. The Owner hereby submits to the jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice of England in respect of any action brought by the Association to recover sums which the Association may consider to be due to it from the Owner. Without prejudice to the foregoing the Association shall be entitled to commence and maintain in any jurisdiction any action to recover sums which the Association may consider to be due to it from the Owner.

B. Save as provided in Section 4 of Rule 22, if any other difference or dispute shall arise between an Owner or any other person and the Association out of or in connection with these Rules or any contract between the Owner and the Association or as to the rights or obligations of the Association or the Owner or any other person thereunder or in connection therewith, such difference or dispute shall in the first instance be referred to and adjudicated upon by the Directors, unless the Directors elect to waive such adjudication, whereupon the Owner or such other person concerned shall be entitled to refer the difference or dispute to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of paragraph C of this Rule. Such reference and adjudication shall be on written submissions only.

C. If the Owner or such other person concerned in such difference or dispute does not accept the decision of the Directors it shall be referred to the arbitration in London of two Arbitrators (one to be appointed by the Association and the other by such Owner or such other person) and an Umpire to be appointed by the Arbitrators, and the submission to arbitration and all the proceedings therein shall be subject to the provisions of the English Arbitration Act, 1996, and any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof.

D. No Owner or such other person shall be entitled to maintain any action, suit or other legal proceedings against the Association upon any such difference or dispute

i. unless and until the same has been so referred to the Directors for adjudication under paragraph (B) of this Rule and the Directors shall have given their decision thereon or the reference to such adjudication shall have been waived in accordance with the proviso to paragraph (B) of this Rule, and
ii. if such decision is not accepted by such Owner or such other person or if the reference to such adjudication shall have been waived, unless and until such difference or dispute shall have been referred to arbitration as provided in paragraph (C) of this Rule and the Award in such reference shall have been published, and
iii. then only for such sum (if any) as the Award may direct to be paid by the Association, and
iv. the sole obligation of the Association to such Owner or such other person under these Rules and any contract between the Association and the Owner or otherwise howsoever in respect of any such dispute or difference shall be to pay such sum as may be directed by such an Award.

E. If any difference or dispute shall arise between an Owner or any other person and the Managers or their servants or agents (collectively the Managers’ Group), out of or in connection with these Rules or any contract between the Owner and the Association or as to the rights or obligations of anyone of the Manager’s Group or the Owner in any other way in connection therewith, such difference or dispute shall be referred to arbitration in London of two Arbitrators (one to be appointed by the Manager’s Group and the other by such Owner or other person) and an Umpire to be appointed by the Arbitrators, and the submission to arbitration and all the proceedings therein shall be subject to the provisions of the English Arbitration Act, 1996, and any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof.