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| Application of
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29. (1) Subject to section 31, any
provision of the Unemployment Insurance
Act as enacted by Part V of this Act, other
than section 27, applies only in respect of
benefit periods that are established after
that provision comes into force.
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(2) Sections 28.1 to 28.4 of the
Unemployment Insurance Act apply, in
addition to their application in respect of
benefit periods that are established after
those sections come into force, in respect of
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(a) periods of suspension that begin after
those sections come into force;
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(b) periods of leave that begin after those
sections come into force; and
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(c) claimants who after those sections
come into force lose their employment by
reason of their own misconduct or
voluntarily leave their employment
without just cause.
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| Continuation
of old rules re
rate of benefit
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30. The rate of weekly benefit payable to
a claimant for a week of unemployment that
falls in a benefit period that was established
before section 22 of this Act comes into force
is an amount equal to the following
percentage of the claimant's average
weekly insurable earnings in the claimant's
qualifying weeks:
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(a) 60 per cent, in the case of a benefit
period that was established before
April 4, 1993; and
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(b) 57 per cent, in the case of a benefit
period that was established after April 3,
1993.
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| Transitional re
weeks for
which benefit
may be paid
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31. (1) Subject to subsection (2), Table 2
of the schedule to the Unemployment
Insurance Act, as enacted by section 28 of
this Act, applies only in respect of benefit
periods that are established after that
section comes into force.
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(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4),
where a benefit period was established after
April 2, 1994 and before the coming into
force of section 28 of this Act, the maximum
number of weeks for which benefit may be
paid in the benefit period for any reasons
other than those referred to in
subsection 11(3) of the Unemployment
Insurance Act shall be determined in
accordance with Table 2 of the schedule to
that Act, as enacted by section 28 of this Act,
by reference to the regional rate of
unemployment that applied to the claimant
on the day on which the benefit period was
established and the number of weeks of
insurable employment of the claimant in
the claimant's qualifying period.
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(3) A claimant with less than twelve
weeks of insurable employment in his or her
qualifying period for whom a benefit period
was established after April 2, 1994 and
before the coming into force of section 28 of
this Act is deemed for the purposes of
subsection (2) to have twelve weeks of
insurable employment in his or her
qualifying period.
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(4) Where the result of subsection (2)
would be that the maximum number of
weeks for which benefit might be paid in a
benefit period is less than the number of
weeks for which benefit has been paid
before the coming into force of section 28,
the last week for which benefit may be paid
in that benefit period is the week before the
week in which that section comes into force.
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| If section 16
not in force
by June 16,
1994
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32. If section 16 is not in force on or before
June 16, 1994, then section 16 is replaced by
the following:
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16. Section 55 of the Western Grain
Transportation Act is amended by adding
the following after subsection (5):
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| Government
commitment
for
subsequent
crop years
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(6) For the purposes of applying the
definition ``government commitment'' in
subsection (1) in respect of each crop year
beginning on or after August 1, 1995, the
aggregate of the items referred to in
paragraphs (a) and (b) of that definition shall
be deemed to be eighty-five per cent of the
aggregate as otherwise determined.
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| Coming into
force
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33. Section 15 comes into force on
April 1, 1995.
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| Coming into
force of
Part V
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34. Part V or any of its provisions or any
provision of the Unemployment Insurance
Act as enacted by that Part comes into force
on a day or days to be fixed by order of the
Governor in Council.
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