1996, c. 23EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT

• 1. (1) Subsection 2(5) of the Employment Insurance Act is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Weeks of benefits paid

    (5) For the purposes of subsection 7(4.1) and section 145, the Commission may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations for establishing how many weeks of benefits a claimant was paid, in order to take into account benefit reductions or deductions in the calculation or payment of those benefits.

• (2) Regulations made under subsection 2(5) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (1), may, if they so provide, have effect with respect to any period before the commencement of this subsection.

2. Subsection 3(2) of the Act is replaced by the following:

• 3. (1) Section 4 of the Act is replaced by the following:

  Marginal note:Maximum yearly insurable earnings

  • 4. (1) For the purposes of subsection 14(1.1), section 17, subsection 82(2) and sections 95 and 145, the maximum yearly insurable earnings is $39,000 until the amount calculated in accordance with subsection (2) for a year, before rounding down under subsection (4), exceeds $39,000, in which case the maximum yearly insurable earnings for that year is that amount, rounded down under subsection (4).

  • Marginal note:Calculation of amount

    (2) The amount referred to in subsection (1) is the amount equal to 52 times the product obtained by multiplying

    • (a) the average for the twelve month period ending on June 30 in the preceding year of the Average Weekly Earnings for each month in that period

    by

    • (b) the ratio that the average for the twelve month period ending on June 30 in that preceding year of the Average Weekly Earnings for each month in that twelve month period bears to the average for the twelve month period ending twelve months prior to June 30 of that preceding year of the Average Weekly Earnings for each month in that twelve month period ending twelve months prior to June 30 of that preceding year.

  • Marginal note:Subsequent years

    (3) For years subsequent to the year in which the maximum yearly insurable earnings exceeds $39,000, before rounding down under subsection (4), the maximum yearly insurable earnings is the maximum yearly insurable earnings for the preceding year, before rounding down under subsection (4), multiplied by the ratio that the average for the twelve month period ending on June 30 in that preceding year of the Average Weekly Earnings for each month in that twelve month period bears to the average for the twelve month period ending twelve months prior to June 30 of that preceding year of the Average Weekly Earnings for each month in that twelve month period ending twelve months prior to June 30 of that preceding year.

  • Marginal note:Rounding down

    (4) If the amount calculated in accordance with subsection (2) or (3) is not a multiple of one hundred dollars, the amount of the maximum yearly insurable earnings is rounded down to the nearest multiple of one hundred dollars.

  • Marginal note:Average Weekly Earnings

    (5) The Average Weekly Earnings for a month is the average weekly earnings of the Industrial Aggregate in Canada for the month as published by Statistics Canada under the authority of the Statistics Act.

• (2) Section 4 of the Act, as enacted by subsection (1), applies in respect of the year 2002 and subsequent years.

• 4. (1) Section 7 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (4):

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (4.1) An insured person is not a new entrant or a re-entrant if the person has been paid one or more weeks of special benefits referred to in paragraph 12(3)(a) or (b) in the period of 208 weeks preceding the period of 52 weeks before their qualifying period or in other circumstances, as prescribed by regulation, arising in that period of 208 weeks.

• (2) Subsection 7(4.1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (1), applies to a claimant in respect of a benefit period beginning on or after October 1, 2000.

5. Section 15 of the Act is repealed.

6. Section 17 of the Act is replaced by the following:

7. Subsection 28(6) of the Act is replaced by the following:

8. Subsection 38(3) of the Act is replaced by the following:

9. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 66:

10. Section 67 of the Act is replaced by the following:

• 11. (1) Paragraph 145(1)(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (a) the total benefits, other than special benefits, paid to the claimant in the taxation year, and

• Marginal note:1998, c. 19, s. 272(1)

  (2) Subsections 145(2) to (8) of the Act are replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of a claimant who was paid regular benefits for less than one week in the ten years before the taxation year referred to in that subsection.

  • Marginal note:Excluded benefits

    (3) Regular benefits paid for weeks beginning before June 30, 1996 shall not be taken into account when applying subsection (2).

  • Marginal note:Time for repayment

    (4) A repayment must be made

    • (a) in the case of a claimant who dies after October in the year and before May in the next year, within six months after the day of death; and

    • (b) in any other case, on or before April 30 in the next year.

  • Marginal note:Limitation

    (5) For greater certainty, repayments under this section do not affect the determination under subsection (2) of regular benefits paid to a claimant.

• (3) Paragraph 145(1)(a) and subsections 145(2) to (5) of the Act, as enacted by subsections (1) and (2), respectively, apply in respect of the taxation year 2000 and subsequent taxation years.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISION

• 12. (1) The repeal of section 15 of the Employment Insurance Act, as enacted by section 5 of this Act, applies in respect of a claimant for any benefit period beginning on or after October 1, 2000 and, in respect of a claimant for whom a benefit period has not ended on September 30, 2000, the weekly rate of benefits established under section 14 of the Employment Insurance Act applies to weeks of benefits paid or payable on or after October 1, 2000.

• (2) If a claim by a claimant referred to in subsection (1) for any week of benefits is reconsidered under section 52 of the Employment Insurance Act and the Commission decides that the claimant has received money by way of benefits for which the claimant was not qualified, or to which the claimant was not entitled, as a result of the repeal of section 15 of the Employment Insurance Act, as enacted by section 5 of this Act, the Commission shall not calculate the amount of that money and the claimant is not liable to repay that amount under section 43 of the Employment Insurance Act.

• (3) Subsection (2) does not apply if, in respect of any week of benefits referred to in that subsection,

  • (a) one or more penalties are imposed on the claimant under section 38, 41.1 or 65.1 of the Employment Insurance Act, as a result of acts or omissions mentioned in section 38 or 65.1 of that Act;

  • (b) the claimant is found guilty of one or more offences under section 135 or 136 of that Act as a result of acts or omissions mentioned in those sections; or

  • (c) the claimant is found guilty of one or more offences under the Criminal Code as a result of acts or omissions relating to the application of the Employment Insurance Act.

• (4) A claimant referred to in subsection (2) shall not make any other claim for benefits, and is not entitled to receive any other payment of benefits, in respect of any week referred to in that subsection.

EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (FISHING) REGULATIONS

Marginal note:SOR/96-445

• 13. (1) Section 8 of the Employment Insurance (Fishing) Regulations is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):

  • (3.1) A fisher is not a new entrant or a re-entrant if the fisher has been paid one or more weeks of special benefits referred to in paragraph 12(3)(a) or (b) of the Act in the period of 208 weeks preceding the period of 52 weeks before their qualifying period or in other circumstances, as prescribed by regulation, arising in that period of 208 weeks.

• (2) Section 8 of the Regulations is amended by adding the following after subsection (8):

  • (8.1) A fisher is not a new entrant or a re-entrant if the fisher has been paid one or more weeks of special benefits referred to in paragraph 12(3)(a) or (b) of the Act in the period of 208 weeks preceding the period of 52 weeks before their qualifying period or in other circumstances, as prescribed by regulation, arising in that period of 208 weeks.

• (3) Subsections 8(3.1) and (8.1) of the Regulations, as enacted by subsections (1) and (2), respectively, apply to a fisher in respect of a benefit period beginning on or after October 1, 2000.

Marginal note:SOR/2001-74

14. Despite subsections 153(3) to (9) of the Employment Insurance Act, the Regulations Amending the Employment Insurance (Fishing) Regulations, made by the Canada Employment Insurance Commission on January 23, 2001, approved by Order in Council P.C. 2001-166 of January 30, 2001 and registered as SOR/2001-74, are deemed to have come into force on December 31, 2000.

COMING INTO FORCE

Marginal note:Coming into force

15. The provisions of this Act, and the provisions of the Employment Insurance Act as enacted by this Act, come into force, or are deemed to have come into force, on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.