Section 61, The Arbitration Act, 2022

(1) Within 30 days of receipt of an award, unless anotherperiod of time has been agreed upon by the parties, a party, with notice to the other party, may request the arbitral tribunal to - (a) correct in the award, an error in computation, clerical or typographical error or any error of similar nature; (b) give an interpretation of a specific point or part of the award, and the arbitral tribunal shall, where it considers the request to be justified, make the correction or give the interpretation, which shall form part of the award, within 30 days of receipt of the request. (2) An arbitral tribunal may correct an error of the type referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) on its own initiative within 30 days of the date of the award. (3) Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, a party, with notice to the other party, may request, within 30 days of receipt of the award, the arbitral tribunal to make an additional award as to claims presented in the arbitral proceedings but omitted from the award and if the arbitral tribunal considers the request to be justified, it shall make the additional award within 60 days. Correction interpretation of award and additional (iv) the arbitral award deals with a dispute not contemplated by, or not falling within the terms of the submission to arbitration, or contains decisions on matters beyond the scope of the submission to arbitration, provided that, if the decisions on matters submitted to arbitration can be separated from those not so submitted, only that part of the arbitral award which contains decisions on matters not submitted to arbitration may be set aside; or (v) the composition of the arbitral tribunal or the arbitral proceedings was not in accordance with the agreement of the parties, unless such agreement was in conflict with this Act from which the parties cannot derogate or, failing such agreement, was not in accordance with this Act; or (b) the Court finds that - (i) the subject matter of the dispute is not capable of settlement by arbitration under the laws of Sierra Leone; or (ii) the arbitral award is in conflict with the public policy of Sierra Leone. (3) An application for setting aside an arbitral award may not be made after 90 days have elapsed from the date on which the party making that application had received the arbitral award or, if a request had been made under section 61, from the date on which that request had been disposed of by the arbitral tribunal. (4) An arbitral tribunal may extend the period of time within which it shall make a correction, interpretation or an additional award under this section. (5) This section shall apply to a correction or interpretation of an award or to an additional award.