Department of Employment and Social Development Act

Marginal note:Jurisdiction — Canada Disability Benefit Act

• 66 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Tribunal may decide any question of law or fact that is necessary to dispose of any appeal brought under the Canada Disability Benefit Act.

• Marginal note:Reference as to income

  (2) If, on an appeal to the Tribunal, it is a ground of the appeal that a decision or determination made by the Minister as to income under the Canada Disability Benefit Act was incorrectly made, the appeal on that ground must, in accordance with the regulations made under that Act, be referred for decision to the Tax Court of Canada, whose decision, subject only to variation by that Court in accordance with any decision on an appeal under the Tax Court of Canada Act relevant to the appeal to the Tribunal, is final and binding for all purposes of the appeal to the Tribunal except in accordance with the Federal Courts Act.