2nd Session, 36th Parliament,
48-49 Elizabeth II, 1999-2000

The House of Commons of Canada

BILL C-442

An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act, 1999 (section 15)

1996, c. 23; 1997, c. 26; 1998, cc. 19, 21; 1999, c. 17

      Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

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

Weeks of regular benefits paid

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

2. Section 15 of the Act is repealed.

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

Presumption

(6) For the purposes of this Part, benefits are deemed to be paid for the weeks of disqualification.

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

Determina-
tions under subsection 145(2) or (3)

(3) For greater certainty, the repayment of benefits overpaid as a result of an act or omission mentioned in subsection (1) does not affect the determination, for the purposes of subsection 145(2) or (3), of the number of weeks of regular benefits paid to a claimant.

5. Subsection 145(8) of the Act is replaced by the following:

Limitation

(8) For greater certainty, repayments under this section do not affect the determination under subsections (2) and (3) of the number of weeks of regular benefits paid to a claimant.

6. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 153.1:

PART VIII.2

REGULATIONS

Regulations

153.2 (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, within three months following the coming into force of this section, the Governor in Council shall make regulations

    (a) for the operation of sections 1 to 5 of the Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act, 1999; and

    (b) amending sections of this Act to make them more consistent with sections 1 to 5 of the Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act, 1999.

Coming into force of regulations

(2) Subject to subsection (3), regulations made under subsection (1) shall come into force three months after this section comes into force.

Approval of the House of Commons

(3) The coming into force of any regulations that amend or repeal regulations made by the Governor in Council under subsection (1) is subject to approval by resolution of the House of Commons, and the regulations shall come into force on the day after the House of Commons approves the regulations by resolution.

Coming into force

7. Sections 1 to 5 shall come into force three months after this Act is assented to.