5. Section 4(c) includes those provisions such as those that involve the judicial process, the waivability of the RUAA, the effective date of the RUAA, or the inherent rights of an arbitrator. The provisions in Section 4(c) should not be within the control of the parties either before or after the arbitration dispute arises.

a. Section 7 concerns the court's authority either to compel or stay arbitration proceedings. Parties should not be able to interfere with this power of the court to initiate or deny the right to arbitrate.

b. Section 14 provides arbitrators and arbitration organizations with immunity for acting in their respective capacities. Similarly, arbitrators and representatives of arbitration organizations are protected from being required to testify in certain instances and if arbitrators or arbitration organizations are the subject of unwarranted litigation, they can recover attorney fees. This section is intended to protect the integrity of the arbitration process and is not waivable by the parties.

c. Likewise, Section 18, dealing with judicial enforcement of preaward rulings, is an inherent right; otherwise parties would be unable to insure a fair hearing and there would be no mechanism to carry out preaward orders.

d. Subsections (a), (b), and (c) of Section 20 give the parties the right to apply to the arbitrators to correct or clarify an award; this right is waivable. But the right of a court in Section 20(d) to order an arbitrator to correct or clarify an award and the applicability of Sections 22, 23, and 24 to Section 20 as provided in Section 20(e) are not waivable.

e. The judicial confirmation, vacatur, and modification provisions of Sections 22, 23, and 24 are not waivable. Special note should be made in regard to Section 23 concerning vacatur. Parties cannot waive or vary the statutory grounds for vacatur such as that a court can vacate an arbitration award procured by fraud or corruption. However, parties can add appropriate grounds that are not in the statute. For instance, as described in Comment C to Section 23, courts have developed nonstatutory grounds of manifest disregard of the law and violation of public policy that will void an arbitration award. Parties could include such standards as grounds for vacatur in their arbitration agreement. Similarly, as discussed in Comment B to Section 23, at this time there is a split of authority whether courts will recognize the validity of arbitration agreements by parties to