Employment Insurance Act - Amendments - Bill C-10

1996, c 23

Premium rate for 2010

222. Section 66 of the Employment Insurance Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):

(4) Despite subsections (1) to (3), the premium rate for the year 2010 is 1.73%.

223. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 73:

73.1 There shall be credited to the Employment Insurance Account on August 1, 2010 the amount determined by the Minister of Finance that corresponds to the cost of the benefit enhancement measures under this Act, provided for in the budget tabled in Parliament on January 27, 2009 in which the cost is estimated to be $2,900,000,000.

224. (1) Schedule I to the Act is replaced by the Schedule I set out in Schedule 8 to this Act.

(2) Schedule I to the Act is replaced by the Schedule I set out in Schedule 9 to this Act.

CLAIMANTS NOT IN CANADA

225. The maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid to a claimant referred to in subsection 55(7) of the Employment Insurance Regulations whose benefit period has not ended before the second Sunday before the day on which this Act receives royal assent and does not begin after September 11, 2010 is to be determined in accordance with Schedule 10.

PILOT PROJECT RELATING TO EXTENDED BENEFITS

226. (1) Section 77.6 of the Employment Insurance Regulations is deemed to cease to have effect on the second Saturday before the day on which this Act receives royal assent.

(2) The maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid in a benefit period that is established for a claimant who is included in Pilot Project No. 10 and whose benefit period has not ended before the second Sunday before the day on which this Act receives royal assent is to be determined in accordance with Schedule I to the Employment Insurance Act , as enacted by subsection 224(1).

PREMIUM RATES PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT

227. Section 66.1 of the Employment Insurance Act , as enacted by section 9 of chapter 5 of the Statutes of Canada, 2001, is deemed to have read as follows:

66.1 Notwithstanding section 66, the premium rates for the years 2002 and 2003 are 2.2% and 2.1%, respectively.

228. Section 66.3 of the Employment Insurance Act , as enacted by section 25 of chapter 22 of the Statutes of Canada, 2004, is deemed to have read as follows:

66.3 Notwithstanding section 66, the premium rate for the year 2005 is 1.95%.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISION

229. Subsection 224(1) applies with respect to every claimant whose benefit period has not ended before the day on which that subsection comes into force and whose benefit period does not begin after September 11, 2010.

COORDINATING AMENDMENTS

230. (1) In this section, “other Act” means the Budget Implementation Act , 2008 .

(2) If section 127 of the other Act comes into force before section 222 of this Act, then

1. that section 222 is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed; and
2. section 66 of the Employment Insurance Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):

Premium rate for 2010

1.1) Despite subsection (1), the premium rate for the year 2010 is 1.73%.

3) If section 222 of this Act comes into force before section 127 of the other Act, then, on the day on which that section 127 comes into force, section 66 of the Employment Insurance Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):

Premium rate for 2010

1.1) Despite subsection (1), the premium rate for the year 2010 is 1.73%.

(4) If section 127 of the other Act comes into force on the same day as section 222 of this Act, then that section 222 is deemed to have come into force before that section 127 and subsection (3) applies as a consequence.

COMING INTO FORCE

Retroactive effect

231. (1) Subsection 224(1) is deemed to have come into force on the second Sunday before the day on which this Act receives royal assent.

September 12, 2010

(2) Subsection 224(2) comes into force on September 12, 2010 .