Employment Insurance Act

Definition of insured participant

58 In this Part, insured participant means an insured person who requests assistance under employment benefits and, when requesting the assistance, is an unemployed person

• (a) for whom a benefit period is established or whose benefit period has ended within the previous 60 months; or

• (b) who would have had a benefit period established for them within the previous 60 months if it were not for the fact that they have had fewer than the hours referred to in subsection 7(4) in the last 52 weeks before what would have been their qualifying period and who, during what would have been that qualifying period, has had at least the number of hours of insurable employment indicated in the table set out in subsection 7(2) or 7.1(1) in relation to their applicable regional rate of unemployment.