Application
160 (1) Any person, partnership or unincorporated organization or federal, provincial or municipal government or any Indigenous governing body may, within the prescribed period, make to a Tribunal a claim for compensation for compensable damage caused by the release that occurred from a designated company’s pipeline. (2) As soon as feasible after the day on which the claim is made, the Chairperson must (a) assign the claim to the Tribunal; (b) establish a panel of the Tribunal and assign the claim to that panel; or (c) assign the claim to an existing panel. (3) The Chairperson must notify the claimant, the designated company and the Regulator that the claim has been assigned. (4) A panel has the powers, other than the power described in section 159, and the duties and functions of the Tribunal with respect to any claim for compensation that is before that panel.
Source
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-15.1/section-160.htmlCanonical document at the regulator. Always cite this URL — not the Vantage detail page — in compliance evidence.