Employment Insurance Act - Amendments - Bill C-26

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PAST AMENDMENTS TO THE EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT

BILL C-26

An Act to establish the Canada Border Services Agency

[Assented to 3rd November, 2005]

Official version published in the Canada Gazette Part III – 25 January 2006 (Chapter 38)

SHORT TITLE

1.  This Act may be cited as the Canada Border Services Agency Act.

SUMMARY

This enactment establishes the Canada Border Services Agency, which was first created by order in council on December 12, 2003. The Agency brings together the border services of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. The enactment sets out the responsibilities, mandate, powers, duties and functions of the Minister responsible for the Agency and its President. It continues the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency under the name of the Canada Revenue Agency and contains transitional provisions as well as consequential amendments to other Acts.

The sections of Bill C-26 relating to the Employment Insurance Act are as follows:

Employment Insurance Act (1996, c. 23)

90. Subsection 102(13) of the Employment Insurance Act is is replaced by the following :

Proof of documents

(13) Every document appearing to be an order, direction, demand, notice, certificate, requirement, decision, assessment, discharge of mortgage, release of hypothec or other document executed under, or in the course of the administration or enforcement of, this Part over the name in writing of the Minister, the Deputy Minister of National Revenue, the Commissioner of Customs and Revenue, the Commissioner of Revenue or an officer authorized to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the Minister under this Part, is deemed to be a document signed, made and issued by the Minister, the Deputy Minister, the Commissioner of Customs and Revenue, the Commissioner of Revenue or the officer unless it has been called into question by the Minister or by a person acting for the Minister or for Her Majesty. 1999, c. 17, s. 133

Terminology Changes

138. Every reference to the “Canada Customs and Revenue Agency” in the following provisions is replaced by a reference to the “Canada Revenue Agency”:

(g) in the Employment Insurance Act,

  1. paragraph 69(3)(f),
  2. subsection 88(12),
  3. the portion of subsection 90(1) before aragraph (a),
  4. subsection 93(2),
  5. subsection 102(1),
  6. subsections 102(5) to (11),
  7. subsection 102(18),
  8. section 122, and
  9. paragraph 131(1)(a);

140.   Every reference to the “Canada Customs and Revenue Agency” in the following provisions is replaced by a reference to the “Commissioner of Revenue”:

(c) subsection 97(1) of the Employment Insurance Act,

Coming into Force

147. This Act, except for sections 144 to 146, comes into force on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Bill)

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council hereby fixes December 12, 2005 as the day on which this Act comes into force, except for sections 144 to 146 which came into force on assent. SI/2005-119