The provisions of Part I apply to a statutory arbitration—
as if the arbitration were pursuant to an arbitration agreement and as if the enactment were that agreement, and
as if the persons by and against whom a claim subject to arbitration in pursuance of the enactment may be or has been made were parties to that agreement.
Every statutory arbitration shall be taken to have its seat in England and Wales or, as the case may be, in Northern Ireland.