Employment Insurance Regulations (SOR/96-332)

51.1 For the purposes of subparagraph 29(c)(xiv) of the Act, other reasonable circumstances include

• (a) circumstances in which a claimant has an obligation to accompany to another residence a person with whom the claimant has been cohabiting in a conjugal relationship for a period of less than one year and where

  • (i) the claimant or that person has had a child during that period or has adopted a child during that period,

  • (ii) the claimant or that person is expecting the birth of a child, or

  • (iii) a child has been placed with the claimant or that person during that period for the purpose of adoption; and

• (b) circumstances in which a claimant has an obligation to care for a member of their immediate family within the meaning of subsection 55(2).