Arbitration Process 
24.7 (1) If an arbitration is commenced or deemed to be commenced under this Regulation but an arbitrator has not yet been appointed and an arbitration involving the same parties is commenced or deemed to be commenced under one or more of the provisions listed in subsection (2) but an arbitrator has not yet been appointed, (a) one arbitrator shall be appointed for all of those arbitrations; and (b) those arbitrations shall be held as one arbitration. O. Reg. 276/98, s. 2. (2) Subsection (1) applies with respect to: 1. Paragraph 2 of subsection 18 (3) and subsection 18 (4) of the Day Nurseries Act. 2. Paragraph 2 of subsection 55 (8) and subsection 55 (9) of the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997. 3. Paragraph 2 of subsection 74 (7) and subsection 74 (8) of the Ontario Works Act, 1997. 4. Clauses 9 (5) (b) and (c) and subsection 9 (7) of the Social Housing Funding Act, 1997. O. Reg. 276/98, s. 2. (3) An arbitration under this section is governed by the Arbitration Act, 1991, subject to the following rules: 1. The parties may jointly appoint a single arbitrator on or after the day the arbitrations are consolidated. 2. If the parties are entitled to appoint an arbitrator jointly but have not done so, the Ontario Court (General Division) may make the appointment on a party’s application under section 10 of the Arbitration Act, 1991. 3. The arbitrator shall make a final award that disposes of the issue within three months after being appointed. 4. The date by which the arbitrator is required to make an award shall not be extended by a court, despite section 39 of the Arbitration Act, 1991. However, that date may be extended by agreement of the parties. 5. The final award shall apportion among the parties the prescribed costs with respect to the geographic area or proposed geographic area. 6. The arbitration shall not deal with the prescribed costs incurred before the designation date. 7. The final award may be effective with respect to a period or periods before it is made and, in that case, shall provide for a monetary reconciliation among the parties. 8. A party may appeal the final award to the Ontario Court (General Division) only on a question of law, with leave, which the court shall grant only if it is satisfied that the conditions in clauses 45 (1) (a) and (b) of the Arbitration Act, 1991 are met. No appeal lies on a question of fact or of mixed law and fact, despite any agreement by the parties. 9. The arbitrator shall provide a copy of the final award to the Minister forthwith after it is made. 10. At any time during the arbitration, the parties may enter into an agreement under section 24.1 that includes an agreement apportioning among the parties that part of the costs of the arbitration attributable to the prescribed costs, in which case that part of the arbitration terminates. 11. The parties may, at any time, amend that part of the final award concerning the prescribed costs by agreement or replace that part of the award with an agreement under section 24.1. 12. That part of the final award in the consolidated arbitration attributable to the prescribed costs comes into effect in accordance with subsection 24.4 (3), 24.5 (2) or 24.6 (4), as the case may be. O. Reg. 276/98, s. 2.