PART VI

TRANSITIONAL, CONDITIONAL AMENDMENT AND COMING INTO FORCE

Transitional

Application of new rules

29. (1) Subject to section 31, any provision of the Unemployment Insurance Act as enacted by Part V of this Act, other than section 27, applies only in respect of benefit periods that are established after that provision comes into force.

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(2) Sections 28.1 to 28.4 of the Unemployment Insurance Act apply, in addition to their application in respect of benefit periods that are established after those sections come into force, in respect of

    (a) periods of suspension that begin after those sections come into force;

    (b) periods of leave that begin after those sections come into force; and

    (c) claimants who after those sections come into force lose their employment by reason of their own misconduct or voluntarily leave their employment without just cause.

Continuation of old rules re rate of benefit

30. The rate of weekly benefit payable to a claimant for a week of unemployment that falls in a benefit period that was established before section 22 of this Act comes into force is an amount equal to the following percentage of the claimant's average weekly insurable earnings in the claimant's qualifying weeks:

    (a) 60 per cent, in the case of a benefit period that was established before April 4, 1993; and

    (b) 57 per cent, in the case of a benefit period that was established after April 3, 1993.

Transitional re weeks for which benefit may be paid

31. (1) Subject to subsection (2), Table 2 of the schedule to the Unemployment Insurance Act, as enacted by section 28 of this Act, applies only in respect of benefit periods that are established after that section comes into force.

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(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), where a benefit period was established after April 2, 1994 and before the coming into force of section 28 of this Act, the maximum number of weeks for which benefit may be paid in the benefit period for any reasons other than those referred to in subsection 11(3) of the Unemployment Insurance Act shall be determined in accordance with Table 2 of the schedule to that Act, as enacted by section 28 of this Act, by reference to the regional rate of unemployment that applied to the claimant on the day on which the benefit period was established and the number of weeks of insurable employment of the claimant in the claimant's qualifying period.

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(3) A claimant with less than twelve weeks of insurable employment in his or her qualifying period for whom a benefit period was established after April 2, 1994 and before the coming into force of section 28 of this Act is deemed for the purposes of subsection (2) to have twelve weeks of insurable employment in his or her qualifying period.

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(4) Where the result of subsection (2) would be that the maximum number of weeks for which benefit might be paid in a benefit period is less than the number of weeks for which benefit has been paid before the coming into force of section 28, the last week for which benefit may be paid in that benefit period is the week before the week in which that section comes into force.

Conditional Amendment

If section 16 not in force by June 16, 1994

32. If section 16 is not in force on or before June 16, 1994, then section 16 is replaced by the following:

16. Section 55 of the Western Grain Transportation Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (5):

Government commitment for subsequent crop years

(6) For the purposes of applying the definition ``government commitment'' in subsection (1) in respect of each crop year beginning on or after August 1, 1995, the aggregate of the items referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that definition shall be deemed to be eighty-five per cent of the aggregate as otherwise determined.

Coming into Force

Coming into force

33. Section 15 comes into force on April 1, 1995.

Coming into force of Part V

34. Part V or any of its provisions or any provision of the Unemployment Insurance Act as enacted by that Part comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.