Bill C-296
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1st Session, 36th Parliament, 46 Elizabeth II, 1997
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The House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-296 |
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An Act to amend the Employment Insurance
Act, 1997 (rate of benefits)
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| 1996, c. 23
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1. Section 4 of the Employment Insurance
Act is replaced by the following:
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| Maximum for
each year
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4. For the purposes of subsection 82(2) and
sections 95 and 145, the maximum yearly
insurable earnings is the amount obtained by
multiplying the weekly insurable earnings by
52.
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2. (1) Subsections 14(1.1) and (2) of the
Act are replaced by the following:
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| Maximum
weekly
insurable
earnings
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(1.1) The maximum weekly insurable
earnings has the same meaning as in sections
45 to 47 of the Unemployment Insurance Act,
R.S. 1985, c. U-1, as those sections read on
June 29, 1996.
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| Regulations
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(1.2) The Governor in Council may make
regulations for the application of section 46
referred to in subsection (1.1).
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| Weekly
insurable
earnings
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(2) A claimant's weekly insurable earnings
are the claimant's average insurable earnings
for the number of weeks in which the claimant
had the highest insurable earnings in the rate
calculation period determined in accordance
with the following table by reference to the
applicable regional rate of unemployment.
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TABLE |
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Regional Rate of Unemployment Weeks
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not more than 6% 20
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more than 6% but not more than 7% 19
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more than 7% but not more than 8% 18
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more than 8% but not more than 9% 17
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more than 9% but not more than 10% 16
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more than 10% but not more than 11% 15
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more than 11% but not more than 12% 14
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more than 12% but not more than 13% 13
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more than 13% but not more than 14% 12
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more than 14% but not more than15% 11
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more than 15% 10
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(2) The portion of subsection 14(4) of the
Act immediately before paragraph (a) is
replaced by the following:
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calculation
period
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(4) The rate calculation period is the period
of not more than 52 consecutive weeks in the
claimant's qualifying period ending with the
later of
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(3) Subsection 14(4.1) of the Act is
replaced by the following:
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| Length of rate
calculation
period
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(4.1) The rate calculation is 52 weeks,
unless the claimant's qualifying period begins
on a Sunday that is less than 52 weeks before
the Sunday of the week in which the rate
calculation period ends under subsection (4),
in which case it is the number of weeks
between those Sundays.
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3. Section 17 of the Act is repealed.
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4. Subsection 19(2) of the Act is replaced
by the following:
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| Earnings in
periods of
unemploy- ment
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(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), if the
claimant has earnings during any other week
of unemployment, there shall be deducted
from benefits payable in that week the
amount, if any, of the earnings that exceeds
25% of the maximum rate of weekly benefits.
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5. The Act is amended by adding the
following after section 153.1
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PART VIII.2 |
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REGULATIONS |
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| Regulations
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153.2 (1) Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Act, within three months
following the coming into force of this
section, the Governor shall make regulations
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| Coming into
force of
regulations
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(2) Subject to subsection (3), regulations
made under subsection (1) shall come into
force three months after this section comes
into force.
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| Approval of
the House of
Commons
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(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.
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| Coming into
force
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6. Sections 1 to 4 shall come into force
three months after this Act is assented to.
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