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Budget Implementation Act, 2009 (S.C. 2009, c. 2)

Assented to 2009-03-12

  • 224. (1) Schedule I to the Act is replaced by the Schedule I set out in Schedule 8 to this Act.

  • (2) Schedule I to the Act is replaced by the Schedule I set out in Schedule 9 to this Act.

Claimants Not in Canada

Marginal note:Subsection 55(7)

225. The maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid to a claimant referred to in subsection 55(7) of the Employment Insurance Regulations whose benefit period has not ended before the second Sunday before the day on which this Act receives royal assent and does not begin after September 11, 2010 is to be determined in accordance with Schedule 10.

Pilot Project Relating To Extended Benefits

Marginal note:Pilot Project No. 10

  • 226. (1) Section 77.6 of the Employment Insurance Regulations is deemed to cease to have effect on the second Saturday before the day on which this Act receives royal assent.

  • Marginal note:Transitional

    (2) The maximum number of weeks for which benefits may be paid in a benefit period that is established for a claimant who is included in Pilot Project No. 10 and whose benefit period has not ended before the second Sunday before the day on which this Act receives royal assent is to be determined in accordance with Schedule I to the Employment Insurance Act, as enacted by subsection 224(1).

Premium Rates Provided for Under the Employment Insurance Act

Marginal note:Deeming provision

227. Section 66.1 of the Employment Insurance Act, as enacted by section 9 of chapter 5 of the Statutes of Canada, 2001, is deemed to have read as follows:

Marginal note:Premium rates for 2002 and 2003

66.1 Notwithstanding section 66, the premium rates for the years 2002 and 2003 are 2.2% and 2.1%, respectively.

Marginal note:Deeming provision

228. Section 66.3 of the Employment Insurance Act, as enacted by section 25 of chapter 22 of the Statutes of Canada, 2004, is deemed to have read as follows:

Marginal note:Premium rate for 2005

66.3 Notwithstanding section 66, the premium rate for the year 2005 is 1.95%.

Transitional Provision

Marginal note:Application

229. Subsection 224(1) applies with respect to every claimant whose benefit period has not ended before the day on which that subsection comes into force and whose benefit period does not begin after September 11, 2010.

Coordinating Amendments

Marginal note:2008, c. 28

  • 230. (1) In this section, “other Act” means the Budget Implementation Act, 2008.

  • (2) If section 127 of the other Act comes into force before section 222 of this Act, then

    • (a) that section 222 is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed; and

    • (b) section 66 of the Employment Insurance Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):

      • Marginal note:Premium rate for 2010

        (1.1) Despite subsection (1), the premium rate for the year 2010 is 1.73%.

  • (3) If section 222 of this Act comes into force before section 127 of the other Act, then, on the day on which that section 127 comes into force, section 66 of the Employment Insurance Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):

    • Marginal note:Premium rate for 2010

      (1.1) Despite subsection (1), the premium rate for the year 2010 is 1.73%.

  • (4) If section 127 of the other Act comes into force on the same day as section 222 of this Act, then that section 222 is deemed to have come into force before that section 127 and subsection (3) applies as a consequence.