Canada Emergency Student Benefit Act (S.C. 2020, c. 7)

Marginal note:Application

• 5 (1) A student may, in the form and manner established by the Minister, apply for a Canada emergency student benefit for any four-week period falling within the period prescribed by regulation.

• Marginal note:Attestation

  (2) A student who applies on the basis that they are seeking work, whether as an employee or in self-employment, but are unable to find it must, in their application, attest to the fact that they are seeking work.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (3) No student is permitted to file an application after September 30, 2020, and the Minister must not pay a Canada student emergency benefit to a student who files an application after that day.

• Marginal note:Information

  (4) An applicant must provide the Minister with any information that the Minister may require in respect of the application.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (5) With the consent of the Minister of Finance, the Minister may, by regulation, prescribe periods for the purposes of subsection (1).