Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles - Chapter 15
CHAPTER 15
FISHING BENEFITS
15.1.0 AUTHORITY
15.1.1 Definition of a Fisher
The Employment Insurance Act contains a provision1 to allow the Commission to make regulations regarding self-employed persons engaged in fishing, hence the Employment Insurance Fishing Regulations (EIR (Fishing)).
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Under the Fishing Regulations, a "fisher" is a self-employed person engaged in fishing and includes a person engaged, other than under a contract of service or for their own or another person's sport:
- in making a catch;
- in any work incidental to making or handling catch, whether the work consists of loading, unloading, transporting or curing the catch made by the crew of which the person is a member, or of preparing, repairing, dismantling or laying up the fishing vessel or fishing gear used by that crew in making or handling the catch, where the person engaged in any such incidental work is also engaged in making the catch; or
- in the construction of a fishing vessel for his or her own use or for the use of a crew of which the person is a member in making a catch1.
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