Employment Insurance Act
Marginal note:Illness, injury or quarantine
152.03 (1) Subject to this Part, a self-employed person who ceases to work as a self-employed person because of a prescribed illness, injury or quarantine and who would be otherwise working, is entitled to receive benefits while unable to work as a self-employed person for that reason.
Marginal note:Limitation
(2) If benefits are payable to a self-employed person as a result of illness, injury or quarantine and any allowances, money or other benefits are payable to the person for that illness, injury or quarantine under a provincial law, the benefits payable to the person under this Part shall be reduced or eliminated as prescribed.
Marginal note:Deduction
(3) If benefits are payable under this section to a self-employed person who receives earnings for a period in a week of unemployment during which the person is incapable of working as a self-employed person because of illness, injury or quarantine, subsection 152.18(2) does not apply and, subject to subsection 152.18(3), all those earnings shall be deducted from the benefits payable for that week.
Marginal note:Disentitlement
(4) A self-employed person is not entitled to benefits under subsection (1) if, were it not for the prescribed illness, injury or quarantine, the self-employed person would be deemed, in accordance with the regulations, to be not working.
- 2009, c. 33, s. 16
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