172. The Commission may delegate generally or specially, to the chairman and director general, the executive committee, its vice-chairmen, its review boards, its officers or a person it may designate, its powers to examine, hear and decide any matter or question declared by the acts and regulations administered by it to be within its jurisdiction.
For the purposes of an inquiry or hearing, the persons, the members of the executive committee and the members of the review boards contemplated in the first paragraph have the powers and immunity of commissioners appointed under the Act respecting public inquiry commissions, except the power to impose imprisonment.
At an inquiry or hearing, the Commission, the persons, the members of the executive committee and the members of the review boards contemplated in the first paragraph may order a party to pay certain costs or to charge them to the Commission; the nature and amount of these costs and the cases and circumstances in which they may be awarded shall be determined by regulation.