(1) If the parties agree to appoint and do appoint arbitrators for the purpose of making the partition, the Collector shall refer the partition to their arbitration.
(2) The provision of the Arbitration Act, 1940 (Central Act Xof 1940), shall apply mutation mutandis to such agreement and reference to such arbitrators and their appointment and proceedings and to the award made by them.
(3) The provisions of Sec. 201 shall be applicable as if for the word parties, the word ‘parties’, the word ‘arbitrators’ were substituted.
(4) It shall not be necessary for the arbitrators appear andproducepersonally before the Collector their award or to sign it or the lots in the presence of the Collector, but they shall sign the award and the lots personally and not by any recognized agent before the same produced before the Collector.