Employment Insurance Regulations - Amendments

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1. The portion of subsection 35(2) of the Employment Insurance Regulations before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

(2) Subject to the other provisions of this section, the earnings to be taken into account for the purpose of determining whether an interruption of earnings has occurred and the amount to be deducted from benefits payable under section 19 or subsection 21(3) or 22(5) of the Act, and to be taken into account for the purposes of sections 45 and 46 of the Act, are the entire income of a claimant arising out of any employment, including

2. Section 45 of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

45. Where a benefit period has been established in respect of a claimant and for any week during that benefit period the claimant is employed in work-sharing employment, the benefit period shall be extended by the total of those weeks and subsections 10(12) to 10(15) of the Act apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require.

3. Section 49 of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

49. Work-sharing benefits shall not be taken into account for the purposes of paragraph 10(8)(a) of the Act or for determining the benefits payable under sections 22 and 23 of the Act.

4. Subsection 55(10) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

(10) In a claimant's benefit period, a claimant who is not in Canada or a claimant referred to in Subsection (8), subject to the applicable maximums set out in paragraphs (7) (a) and (b), may combine weeks of benefits to which the claimant is entitled, but the total number of weeks of benefits shall not exceed 50 or if the benefit period is extended under subsection 10(13) of the Act, 65.

COMING INTO FORCE

5. These Regulations come into force April 17, 2002

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