Employment Insurance Act - Table of Provisions
Current Version of the Employment Insurance Act
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
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Short Title
1. Short title
PART I - UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
Interpretation
2. Definitions
Report
3. Commission to assess adjustment
Maximum Yearly Insurable Earnings
4. Maximum yearly insurable earnings
5. Types of insurable employment
Interpretation
6. Definitions
7. Qualifying for Benefits | TABLE
7.1 Increase in required hours | TABLE
8. Qualifying period
Benefit Period
9. Establishment of benefit period
10. Beginning of benefit period
11. Week of unemployment
Payment of Benefits
12. Benefits
13. Waiting period
Rate of Benefits
14. Rate of weekly benefits | TABLE
15. Reduction | TABLE
16. Rate increase - family supplement
17. Maximum rate of weekly benefits
Disentitlement to Benefits
18. Availability for work, etc.
Deductions from Benefits
19. Earnings in waiting period
20. Deduction for excluded days in waiting period
Special Benefits
21. Illness, etc. - minor attachment claimants
22. Pregnancy
23. Parental benefits
23.1 Compassionate care benefits
Work Sharing
24. Regulations for work-sharing benefits
Courses, Programs and Employment Benefits
25. Status of claimants
26. Benefits not earnings
Disqualification and Disentitlement
27. Disqualification - general
28. Duration of disqualification
29. Interpretation
30. Disqualification - misconduct or leaving without just cause
31. Disentitlement - suspension for misconduct
32. Disentitlement - period of leave without just cause
33. Disentitlement - anticipated loss of employment
34. Suspension of disentitlement
35. Exception
36. Labour disputes
37. Prison inmates and persons outside Canada
Penalties
38. Penalty for claimants, etc.
39. Penalty for employers, etc.
40. Limitation on imposition of penalties
41. Rescission, etc., of penalty
41.1 Warning
Non-Assignment of Benefits and Liability to Return Benefits and Pay Penalties
42. Benefits not assignable
43. Liability for overpayments
44. Liability to return overpayment
45. Return of benefits by claimant
46. Return of benefits by employer or other person
46.1 Liability of directors to pay penalties
47. Debts to Crown
Claim Procedures
48. Claim required
49. Proof required
50. Entitlement to benefits
51. Information
52. Reconsideration of claim
53. Notification
Regulations
54. Regulations
55. Hours of insurable employment
PART II - EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
56. Purpose
57. Guidelines
58. Definition of "insured participant"
59. Employment benefits for insured participants
60. National employment service
61. Financial assistance
62. Agreements for administering employment benefits and support
measures
63. Agreements for paying costs of similar benefits and measures
64. No appeal
65. Liability for repayments
65.1 Penalties
65.2 Debts due to the Crown
PART III - PREMIUMS AND OTHER FINANCIAL MATTERS
Premiums
65.3 Chief Actuary
66. Annual premium rate setting
67. Employee's premium
68. Employer's premium
69. Premium reduction - wage-loss plans
70. Overlapping pay periods
Employment Insurance Account
71. Employment Insurance Account established
72. Payment into Consolidated Revenue Fund
73. Credits to Employment Insurance Account
74. Government premiums
75. Other credits to Employment Insurance Account
76. Interest
77. Charges to the Account
78. Maximum amount that may be paid under Part II
79. Plan
80. Advances
80.1 Regulations - payment of interest
PART IV - INSURABLE EARNINGS AND COLLECTION OF PREMIUMS
Interpretation
81. Definitions
Payment of Premiums
82. Deduction and payment of premiums
83. Liability of directors
84. Employer's premium not recoverable
85. Assessment
86. Recovery
87. Records and books
88. Inspections
89. Protection of employer
Ruling and Appeals
90. Request for ruling
91. Appeal of rulings
92. Appeal of assessments
93. Notification of appeal
94. Minister's authority not restricted
Overpayments and Refunds
95. Employee overpayment
96. Refund - overpayments
Administration
97. Minister's duty
98. Application of section 223 of the Income Tax Act
99. Application of Income Tax Act provisions
100. Financial institutions to receive cheques
101. Execution of documents by corporations
102. Information or complaint
Objection and Review
103. Appeal to the Tax Court of Canada
104. Authority to decide questions
105. Decision final
Offences
106. Offence and punishment
107. Officers, etc., of corporations
Regulations
108. Regulations
PART V - PILOT PROJECTS
109. Regulations
110. Expiration of regulations
PART VI - ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Board of Referees
Umpires
112. Appointment
113. Hearings
Appeals
114. Appeal to board of referees
115. Appeal to umpire
116. Procedure for appeal
117. Powers of umpire
118. Decision final
119. Attendance of witnesses
120. Amendment of decision
121. Payment of benefit pending appeal
122. Determination of questions
123. Regulations
Investigations
124. Investigation by Commission
Enforcement
125. Information or complaint
126. Certificates
127. Confidential information
128. Exception for war crimes
129. Privilege
130. Default
131. Question under section 90
132. Question for Commission
133. Spouse as witness
134. Evidence of documents, etc.
Offences and Punishment
135. Offence
136. Contravention of Act or regulations
137. General penalty for offences
Social Insurance Number
138. Registration
139. Social Insurance Register
140. Change of name
141. Prohibitions
Reports
142. Reports
Electronic Systems
143. Regulations
PART VII - BENEFIT REPAYMENT
144. Definitions
145. Benefit repayment
146. Returns
147. Estimate of benefit repayment
148. Responsible Minister
149. Application of Income Tax Act provisions
150. Debts due Her Majesty
151. Communication of information
152. Regulations
PART VIII
153. Regulations
PART VIII.1 - ALTERNATE ACCESS TO SPECIAL BENEFITS
153.1 Regulations
PART VIII.2 - REGULATIONS - PROVINCIAL PLANS
153.2 Regulations
PART IX - REPEALS, TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS, RELATED AND CONDITIONAL AMENDMENTS AND COMING INTO FORCE
Repeals
154. National Training Act
155. Unemployment Insurance Act
Transitional Provisions
National Training Act
156. Allowances
157. Agreements
158. Charge to Employment Insurance Account
Unemployment Insurance Act
159. Benefit periods beginning before this section comes into force
160. Hours of insurable employment and earnings before 1997
161. Premiums
162. Employment Insurance Account
163. Estimated insurable earnings for 1996-97
164. Powers and functions
165. Waivers and agreements
Employment Insurance Account
166. Deemed pay-out and charge
Transational Regulations
167. Regulations
Consequential and Related Amendments
168. Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
169. Employment and Immigration Department and Commission Act
170. Excise Tax Act
171-176 Income Tax Act
177-182 Labour Adjustment Benefits Act
183. Transitional provision
184-185 Tax Court of Canada Act
186. Tax Rebate Discounting Act
Changes in Terminology
187. References to Unemployment Insurance Act
Conditional Amendments
188. An Act to amend the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, the Income Tax Act and the Tax Court of Canada Act
189. Bill C-96
Coming Into Force
190. Coming into force
RELATED PROVISIONS
TABLE OF CONCORDANCE