1 These Regulations may be cited as the Transitional Assistance Benefit Regulations.
22 (1) An insurance officer shall consider applications submitted to him under these Regulations and,
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(b) if he is of the opinion that a transitional assistance benefit period has not been established, he shall
(i) declare that a transitional assistance benefit period has not been established on the ground that one or more of the requirements of these Regulations have not been complied with, or
(2) Notwithstanding that a transitional assistance benefit period has been established, if an insurance officer is not satisfied that an employee has fulfilled all the other conditions of qualification for transitional assistance benefits or if he is of the opinion that the employee is or was disqualified from receiving transitional assistance benefits, he shall
(a) declare the employee to be disqualified from receiving transitional assistance benefits for such days as he may determine, on the ground that
(i) the employee is disqualified under these Regulations, or
(ii) the employee does not fulfil one or more of any of the conditions or requirements of these Regulations; or
18 The Commission shall administer these Regulations on behalf of the Minister and shall
(c) pay transitional assistance benefits and, subject to these Regulations, make recovery of overpayments of transitional assistance benefits and of amounts paid pursuant to these Regulations to any person not entitled thereto;
(e) make such reports to the Minister concerning the administration of these Regulations as he may require.
23 (1) A Board of Referees has power to consider and determine appeals from decisions made under these Regulations by insurance officers and matters referred to it under these Regulations by insurance officers and an appeal lies from decisions of a Board of Referees on any such appeal or reference to the Umpire or any Deputy Umpire appointed under the Unemployment Insurance Act.
(2) Sections 70 to 82 of the Unemployment Insurance Act and sections 177 to 187 of the Unemployment Insurance Regulations apply mutatis mutandis to these Regulations.
15 (1) Subject to these Regulations, where an employee in respect of whom a transitional assistance benefit period has been established proves that he was unemployed and not entitled to a retirement pension under the Canada Pension Plan or the Quebec Pension Plan during any week in the transitional assistance benefit period, he is entitled, commencing with the week in which he makes an application for transitional assistance benefits and makes a claim for unemployment insurance benefits, if an unemployment insurance benefit period is then established with respect to him, to be paid transitional assistance benefits in respect of his unemployment during that week.
(2) Where an unemployment insurance benefit period of an employee terminates prior to the termination of a transitional assistance benefit period of the employee, transitional assistance benefits continue to be payable to him in accordance with these Regulations but shall not be paid if the employee is able to establish a new unemployment insurance benefit period and fails to do so.
(3) The provisions of section 57 of the Unemployment Insurance Act and the Regulations relating thereto apply mutatis mutandis to these Regulations.
