Employment Insurance Regulations - Amendments

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1. Subsection 30(2) of the French version of the Employment Insurance Regulations¹ is replaced by the following:

(2) Lorsque le prestataire exerce un emploi ou exploite une entreprise selon le paragraphe (1) dans une mesure si limitée que cet emploi ou cette activité ne constituerait pas normalement le principal moyen de subsistance d'une personne, il n'est pas considéré, à l'égard de cet emploi ou de cette activité, comme ayant effectué une semaine entière de travail.

2. Section 42 of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

42. Work-sharing benefits are payable to a claimant who is employed in work-sharing employment for each week of unemployment that falls in a benefit period established for the claimant, and subject to sections 43 to 49, the Act and any regulations made under the Act apply to the claimant, with such modifications as the circumstances require.

3. (1) Paragraph 69(2)(a) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

(a) on notification by the Commission that the plan satisfies the requirements of section 63, 64, 65 or 66, request immediately from the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency a separate account number in respect of each category of insured persons referred to in that subsection;

(2) Paragraphs 69(2)(c) and (d) of the Regulations are replaced by the following:

(c) beginning not later than with the first remittance for the first month from which the employer's premium reduction is applicable, remit to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency the employer's premium payable in respect of insured persons in each category under those account numbers; and

(d) for each year for which the employer is notified that the employer's plan satisfies the requirements of section 63, 64, 65 or 66, submit to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, in respect of each separate account number, an information return showing, in respect of all insured persons in the category for which the separate account number was issued, the total amount of insurable earnings, the total amount of employees' premiums and the total amount of employer's premiums.

4. The portion of subsection 88 (1) of the Regulations before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

88. (1) Subject to subsection (2), where a request is made to an officer of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency under paragraph 90(1) (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the Act for a ruling on the question of whether a claimant is or was employed in insurable employment for any number of hours in a particular period of employment or alleged employment, no benefits are payable in respect of any hour that is the subject of the ruling until the later of

5. These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.

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¹SOR/96-332