Canada Pension Plan

Marginal note:Attendance before Pension Appeals Board

• 86 (1) Where on an appeal to the Pension Appeals Board from a decision of a Review Tribunal, an appellant is requested by the Board to attend before it on the hearing of the appeal and so attends, the appellant is entitled to be paid such reasonable travel and living expenses incurred in Canada and compensation for loss of remuneration as are fixed by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Where appeal successful

  (1.1) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where an appellant is successful, the appellant is entitled to be paid such reasonable travel and living expenses in connection with the hearing of the appeal and compensation for loss of remuneration as are fixed by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Expenses of respondent and other parties

  (1.2) Where on an appeal to the Pension Appeals Board from a decision of a Review Tribunal, a respondent or other party to the appeal is requested by the Board to attend before it on the hearing of the appeal and so attends, the respondent or other party shall be paid such reasonable travel and living expenses and compensation for loss of remuneration as are fixed by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Legal expenses

  (2) Where

  • (a) on an appeal by the Minister to the Pension Appeals Board from a decision of a Review Tribunal, a person who benefits by the decision from which the Minister is appealing, or a person added as a party pursuant to subsection 83(10), is represented by counsel on the hearing of the appeal, or

  • (b) on an appeal by a person other than the Minister to the Pension Appeals Board from a decision of a Review Tribunal, that person, or a person added as a party pursuant to subsection 83(10), is represented by counsel on the hearing of the appeal and is successful at the appeal,

  that person is entitled to be paid such legal expenses as may be approved by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (3) Where any travel and other allowances, including compensation for loss of remuneration, may be paid to any person under subsection (1) or any legal expenses may be paid to any person under subsection (2), those allowances, including compensation, or those expenses may, in lieu of being paid to that person, be paid, subject to the regulations, to any person acting on his behalf.