Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act

Marginal note:Notice

• 47 (1) Before a panel is constituted for the purposes of subsection 13(2), 25(3), 37(1) or 140(5), the government or Minister proposing constitution of the panel shall notify the other government or Minister of the proposal.

• Marginal note:Appointment of members of panel

  (2) Within thirty days after notice is given pursuant to subsection (1), each government shall appoint one member of the panel.

• Marginal note:Chairperson of panel

  (3) The chairperson of the panel shall be appointed

  • (a) jointly by the two members of the panel appointed pursuant to subsection (2) within thirty days after the later of the two appointments made pursuant to that subsection; or

  • (b) where the two members of the panel fail to agree on the appointment of the chairperson of the panel within the thirty day period referred to in paragraph (a), by the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia within thirty days after the expiration of that period.