Employment Insurance Regulations - Amendments

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Registration
SOR /2000-393
20 October, 2000

Regulations Amending the Employment Insurance Regulations

1. (1) Paragraph 55(7)(a) of the Employment Insurance Regulations¹ is replaced by the following:

(a) in the case of benefits that are paid for a reason referred to in subsection 12(3) of the Act, the applicable number of weeks referred to in subsections 12(3) to (6) of the Act; and

(10) In a claimant's benefit period, a claimant who is not in Canada or a claimant referred to in Subsection (8) may, subject to the applicable maximums set out in paragraphs (7) (a) and (b), combine weeks of benefits to which the claimant is entitled, but the total number of weeks of benefits shall not exceed 50.

2. The heading of Part VI of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

3. (1) Subsection 93(1) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

93. (1) An insured person who does not qualify to receive benefits under section 7 of the Act and who is claiming special benefits qualifies to receive the special benefits if the person

(a) has had an interruption of earnings from employment; and

(b) has had 600 or more hours of insurable employment in their qualifying period.

(2) Paragraph 93 (5) (a) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

(a) the claimant has accumulated, since the beginning of the claimant's benefit period, a sufficient number of hours of insurable employment that, when added to the hours in the claimant's qualifying period, equal or exceed the number of hours required under section 7 of the Act determined by reference to the week in which the benefit period began; and

4. These Regulations come into force on December 31, 2000