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SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS About the Authors....................................... iii Preface .................................................. v Table of Contents ....................................... ix Chapter 1: Introduction to the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans .................................................... 1 Chapter 2: History of the Canada Pension Plan — General . . . 3 Chapter 3: History of the CPP Disability Program .......... 13 Chapter 4: Review of the Current Legislation .............. 17 Chapter 5: Appeals and Offences .......................... 59 Chapter 6: Records and Privacy Issues ..................... 67 Chapter 7: Responsible Investment ........................ 71 Chapter 8: Related Legislation — The Old Age Security Act . . . 75 Chapter 9: The Future of Canada’s Pension Plan Programs. . 83 Chapter 10: Canada’s Private Pension Plans ................ 89 Chapter 11: Introduction to Employment Insurance Benefits ................................................. 97 Chapter 12: EI Adjudicative Process ...................... 119 Chapter 13: Record of Employment ...................... 125 Chapter 14: Employment Insurance for the Self-Employed. . 133 Chapter 15: Settlement Payments and Damages ........... 137 Chapter 16: The Federal Work-Sharing Program .......... 143 Chapter 17: What Lies Ahead for Employment Insurance . . 149 Appendix — Canada Pension Plan ....................... 153 Appendix — An Act Respecting the Que´ bec Pension Plan. . 347 Appendix — Old Age Security Act ....................... 479 Appendix — Employment Insurance Act.................. 579 List of Abbreviations ................................... 805 vii
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SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS

About the Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Canada and Quebec PensionPlans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 2: History of the Canada Pension Plan — General . . . 3

Chapter 3: History of the CPP Disability Program . . . . . . . . . . 13

Chapter 4: Review of the Current Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 5: Appeals and Offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Chapter 6: Records and Privacy Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Chapter 7: Responsible Investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Chapter 8: Related Legislation—TheOld Age Security Act . . . 75

Chapter 9: The Future of Canada’s Pension Plan Programs. . 83

Chapter 10: Canada’s Private Pension Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Chapter 11: Introduction to Employment InsuranceBenefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Chapter 12: EI Adjudicative Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Chapter 13: Record of Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Chapter 14: Employment Insurance for the Self-Employed. . 133

Chapter 15: Settlement Payments and Damages . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Chapter 16: The Federal Work-Sharing Program . . . . . . . . . . 143

Chapter 17: What Lies Ahead for Employment Insurance . . 149

Appendix — Canada Pension Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Appendix — An Act Respecting the Quebec Pension Plan . . 347

Appendix — Old Age Security Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Appendix — Employment Insurance Act. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

List of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

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Glossary of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

About the Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Summary Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION TO THECANADA AND QUEBEC PENSION PLANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER TWO: HISTORY OF THE CANADAPENSION PLAN — GENERAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Government Annuities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Old Age Pensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Old Age Security and the Beginning of DisabilityProtection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Birth of the Canada Pension Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Initial Reforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The 1998 Amendments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The CPP Since 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Recent Changes to the QPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

CHAPTER THREE: HISTORY OF THE CPPDISABILITY PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

CHAPTER FOUR: REVIEW OF THE CURRENTLEGISLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Who is Covered by the CPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Contributory Period for Pension Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Contributory Period for Disability Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Contributory Salary and Wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Contributions for Employees Who Are NotSelf-Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Contributions for Self-Employed Persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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Pensionable Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Excepted Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Contribution Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Contribution Rates for Employees and Employers . . . . . . 22

Contribution Rates for the Self-Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Amount of Self-Employed Earnings for a Year . . . . . . . . . 24

Year’s Basic Exemption (YBE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Year’s Maximum Pensionable Earnings (YMPE) . . . . . . . 25

Maximum Contributory Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Collections for Employees and Employers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Liability of Directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Liability Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Collections for the Self-Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Overpayments by Employees, Employers, or theSelf-Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Pension Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

General Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Eligibility and Adjustments for Early and LateRetirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Benefits for Retirement Pensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Assignment of a Person’s Retirement Pension . . . . . . . . . . 32

Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Special Rules for the Payment of CPP RetirementPensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

CPP Post-Retirement Benefit Elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Disability Pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Severe Disability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Prolonged Disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Progressive or Cyclical Disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Evidence on Application for Disability Pension . . . . . . . . . 42

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Other Factors Affecting Eligibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Disability Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Special Rules for the Payment of Disability Pensions. . . . 44

Disabled Contributor’s Child Benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Benefits Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Special Rules for the Payment of DisabledContributor’s Child Benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Death Benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Special Rules for the Payment of Death Benefits. . . . . . . . 47

Survivor’s Pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Effect of Remarriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Effect of Death Within One Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Special Rules for the Payment of Survivor’s Pensions . . . 51

Orphan’s Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Special Rules for the Payment of Orphan’s Benefits . . . . . 52

Payment of Benefits Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Interim Benefit Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Apportionment of Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Return of Payments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Bill C-51: Economic Recovery Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Removal of the Work Cessation Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Participation of Working CPP Beneficiaries . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Increase in the General Low Earnings Drop-out . . . . . . . . 56

Pension Adjustments for Early and Late Retirement . . . . 56

CHAPTER FIVE: APPEALS AND OFFENCES . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Appeals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Step One — Reconsideration by the Minister. . . . . . . . . . . 59

Step Two — Social Security Tribunal (GeneralDivision). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Step Three — Social Security Tribunal (AppealDivision). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Step Four — Judicial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

CHAPTER SIX: RECORDS AND PRIVACY ISSUES . . . . 67

Protection of Personal Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

CHAPTER SEVEN: RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT . . . . . . 71

Financial Arrangements for CPP Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Financial Reviews of the CPP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Agreements With Other Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

CHAPTER EIGHT: RELATED LEGISLATION — THEOLD AGE SECURITY ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Old Age Security Pension Benefits (OASP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

The Allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Changes to the Old Age Security Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

CHAPTER NINE: THE FUTURE OF CANADA’SPENSION PLAN PROGRAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

CHAPTER TEN: CANADA’S PRIVATE PENSIONPLANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

CHAPTER ELEVEN: INTRODUCTION TOEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Insurable Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Maximum Yearly Insurable Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Qualifying for EI Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Interruption of Earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Hours Worked in the Qualifying Period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Duration of EI Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Disentitlement to Employment Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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Employment Insurance Premiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Employment Insurance Premium Rate Setting . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Maternity Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Parental Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Sickness Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Compassionate Care Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Benefits for Parents of Critically Ill Children . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Combining Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

EI Benefit Top-Ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Employment Insurance Benefits and the Next Phaseof Canada’s Economic Action Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Work-Sharing Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Wage Earner Protection Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Targeted Initiative for Older Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Small Business Job Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

EI Pilot Projects: Best 14 Weeks and Working Whileon Claim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Connecting Canadians with Available Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . 117

CHAPTER TWELVE: EI ADJUDICATIVE PROCESS . . . 119

Social Security Tribunal — General Division . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Social Security Tribunal — Appeal Division. . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Judicial Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Employer Request for Advance Ruling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT. . 125

Voluntarily Leaving Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Just Cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Termination of Employment for Misconduct . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Changes to the Record of Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: EMPLOYMENTINSURANCE FOR THE SELF-EMPLOYED. . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Premiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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Participation in the Program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: SETTLEMENT PAYMENTSAND DAMAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Effect of Settlements on Entitlement to EI Benefits . . . . . . 137

Human Rights Claims. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Relinquishment of the Right to Reinstatement. . . . . . . . . . . 139

Payments in Lieu of Health and Dental Benefits . . . . . . . . . 140

Reporting Settlement Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE FEDERALWORK-SHARING PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Employer Eligibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Employee Eligibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Duration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

The Application Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: WHAT LIES AHEAD FOREMPLOYMENT INSURANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

CANADA PENSION PLAN

SHORT TITLE1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

INTERPRETATION2 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

APPLICATION AND OPERATION OF ACT

3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

4 Application in respect of province providingcomprehensive pension plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

ELECTRONIC ALTERNATIVES

[Heading added 2007, c. 11, s. 1.]

4.1 Minister’s power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

PART I — CONTRIBUTIONS

5 Definition of ‘‘Minister”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

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DIVISION A — CONTRIBUTIONS PAYABLE

Pensionable Employment6 Pensionable employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

7 Regulations respecting employment to be includedin pensionable employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Contributions by Employees and Employers in respectof Pensionable Employment

8 Amount of employee’s contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

9 Amount of employer’s contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Contributions by Persons in respect of Self-EmployedEarnings

10 Amount of contribution in respect of self-employedearnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

11 Election not to contribute in respect of self-employedearnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

DIVISION B — CALCULATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Contribution Rate11.1 Contribution rate — 1966 to 1986. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Contributory Salary and Wages12 Amount of contributory salary and wages. . . . . . . . . . 174

Contributory Self-Employed Earnings13 Amount of contributory self-employed earnings . . . . 176

14 Amount of self-employed earnings for a year . . . . . . . 179

14.1 Idem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Salary and Wages on which Contribution made15 Amount of salary and wages on which contribution

made for a year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Maximum Contributory Earnings16 Amount of maximum contributory earnings for a

year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Maximum Pensionable Earnings17 Amount of maximum pensionable earnings . . . . . . . . 182

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Year’s Maximum Pensionable Earnings18 Amount of Year’s Maximum Pensionable

Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Basic Exemption19 Amount of basic exemption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Year’s Basic Exemption20 Amount of Year’s Basic Exemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

DIVISION C — COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Employees and Employers21 Amount to be deducted and remitted by employer . . 188

21.1 Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

22 Minister may assess amount payable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

23 Recovery of contributions, etc., as debt due to HerMajesty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

24 Books and records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

25 Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

26 No action against person deducting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Rulings and Appeals26.1 Request for ruling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

27 Appeal of rulings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

27.1 Appeal of assessments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

27.2 Notification of appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

27.3 Minister’s authority not restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

28 Appeal to Tax Court of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

29 Authority to decide questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

DIVISION D — COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS IN RESPECT

OF SELF-EMPLOYED EARNINGS

30 Return to be filed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

31 Estimate to be made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

32 Examination of return and notice of assessment . . . . 205

33 Payment of contribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

34 Interest on unpaid contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

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35 Failure to file a return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

36 Application of Income Tax Act provisions . . . . . . . . . 209

37 Priority in which payment to be applied . . . . . . . . . . . 209

DIVISION E — GENERAL

Refunds of Overpayments38 Refund of overpayment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

39 Refund of overpayment in accordance withagreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Regulations40 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Offences41 Offence and punishment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

PART II — PENSIONS AND SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS

Interpretation42 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Pension Index43 Pension Index for subsequent years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

DIVISION A — BENEFITS PAYABLE

44 Benefits payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

DIVISION B — CALCULATION OF BENEFITS

Basic Amount and Annual Adjustment45 Basic amount of benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Retirement Pension46 Amount of retirement pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

47 Amount of average monthly pensionable earnings . . 229

48 Average monthly pensionable earnings in case ofpension commencing after December, 1975 . . . . . . . . . 229

49 Contributory period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

50 Total pensionable earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

51 Calculation of pensionable earnings for a month. . . . 232

52 Amount of earnings for which contribution deemedto have been made for a month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

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53 Unadjusted pensionable earnings for a year . . . . . . . . 236

54 Unadjusted pensionable earnings for years ofdivision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Division of Unadjusted Pensionable Earnings forDivorces and Annulments before the Coming into Force

of Section 55.155 Application for division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Division of Unadjusted Pensionable Earnings55.1 When mandatory division to take place . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

55.11 Application of section 55.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

55.2 Agreement or court order not binding on Minister . . 242

55.3 Incapacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Disability Pension56 Amount of disability pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Death Benefit57 Amount of death benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Survivor’s Pension58 Amount of survivor’s pension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Disabled Contributor’s Child’s Benefit and Orphan’sBenefit

59 Amount of benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Post-retirement Benefit[Heading added 2009, c. 31, s. 36.]

59.1 Amount of post-retirement benefit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

DIVISION C — PAYMENT OF BENEFITS: GENERAL PROVISIONS

60 Application for benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

61 Approval of interim benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

62 Where payment approved after month ofcommencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

63 Where spouse remarried before survivor’s pensionpayable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

63.1 Subsections do not apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

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64 [Repealed R.S.C. 1985, c. 30 (2nd Supp.), s. 32.] . . . . 271

65 Benefit not to be assigned, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

65.1 Assignment of retirement pension to spouse orcommon-law partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

66 Return of benefit where recipient not entitled. . . . . . . 276

66.1 Request to cancel benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

DIVISION D — PAYMENT OF BENEFITS: SPECIAL RULES

APPLICABLE

Retirement Pension67 Commencement of retirement pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

68 Duration of payment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

68.1 [Repealed 2009, c. 31, s. 39.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Disability Pension69 Commencement of pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

70 When pension ceases to be payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

70.1 Reinstatement of disability pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Death Benefit71 Payable to estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Survivor’s Pension72 Commencement of pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

73 Duration of payment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Disabled Contributor’s Child’s Benefits and Orphan’sBenefit

74 Persons by whom application may be made . . . . . . . . 288

75 Payment of benefit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

76 When disabled contributor’s child’s benefit ceasesto be payable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Post-retirement Benefit[Heading added 2009, c. 31, s. 40.]

76.1 Commencement of benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

76.2 Duration of payment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

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DIVISION E — PAYMENT OF BENEFITS: AMOUNT PAYABLE

UNDER CANADA PENSION PLAN

77 Amount of benefit payable under Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

78 Total pensionable earnings attributable tocontributions made under Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

79 Total pensionable earnings attributable tocontributions made under Act as a result ofdivision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

80 Agreements with provinces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

80.1 Agreements respecting the apportionment ofpayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

DIVISION F — RECONSIDERATIONS AND APPEALS

81 Appeal to Minister. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

82 Appeal to Social Security Tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

83 Stay of benefits pending judicial review . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

84 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 229.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

85 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 229.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

86 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 229.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

86.1 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 229.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

DIVISION G — GENERAL

87 Census information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

88 Presumption as to death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Regulations89 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Offences90 Offence and punishment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Administrative Monetary Penalties[Heading added 1997, c. 40, s. 87. Amended 2007, c. 11, s. 6.]

90.1 Penalty for misrepresentation, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Administration and Enforcement[Heading added 2007, c. 11, s. 8.]

90.2 Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

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PART III — ADMINISTRATION

Interpretation91 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

General92 Administration of Act. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

93 Duty of Minister of Public Works and GovernmentServices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

94 Duty of Canada Employment InsuranceCommission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Records and Information95 Record of Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

96 Application for statement of earnings and requestfor reconsideration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

97 Entry in Record of Earnings presumed to beaccurate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

98 Application for assignment of Social InsuranceNumber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

99 Application to be signed by applicant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

100 Agreement respecting assignment of Social InsuranceNumbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

101 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

102 Offence and punishment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

103 Limitation period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Availability of Information[Heading amended 2012, c. 19, s. 292.]

104 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

104.01 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

104.02 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

104.03 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

104.04 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

104.05 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

104.06 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

104.07 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

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104.08 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

104.09 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

104.1 Availability of information within federalinstitutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Agreements with Provinces[Heading added 2012, c. 19, s. 294.]

104.101[Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

104.102[Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

104.11 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 294.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

105 Agreement with province for exchange of recordsand furnishing of information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Oaths, Affidavits, Declarations and Affirmations[Heading added 2012, c. 19, s. 295.]

106 Commissioners for oaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Reciprocal Agreements with Other Countries107 Reciprocal arrangements re administration, etc . . . . . 318

Financial Provisions107.1 Donations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

108 Canada Pension Plan Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

108.1 Management of Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

109 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

110 Interest shall be charged to Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

111 [Repealed 2003, c. 5, s. 6.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

111.1 Administration agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

112 Annual financial statements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

113 Effect of regulation made under subsection 3(2) . . . . 325

Financial Review of the Canada Pension Plan113.1 Review every three years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Amendments to Act114 Definition of ‘‘included province” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Report of Chief Actuary115 Chief Actuary to report every three years . . . . . . . . . . 337

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116 [Repealed 1997, c. 40, s. 97.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Annual Report to Parliament and the Provinces117 Annual report to be made by Ministers . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Government Employees118 Government contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

SCHEDULE [1] — CONTRIBUTION RATES

AN ACT RESPECTING THE QUEBEC PENSION PLAN

TITLE I — DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATION

1 Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

1.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

2 Pensionable employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

3 Excepted employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

4 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

5 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

6 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

7 Employment in Quebec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

8 Contributions of self-employed worker. . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

8.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

9 Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

10 Similar plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

TITLE II — REGIS DES RENTES DU QUEBEC

11 Board constituted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

12 Agent of Crown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

12.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

13 Head office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

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20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

20.1 [Repealed 2009, c. 41, s. 1.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

23.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

23.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

23.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

23.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

23.4.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

23.4.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

23.4.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

23.5 Delegation of powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

23.6 Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

24 [Repealed 1981, c. 23, s. 49.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

25 Minutes authentic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

25.1 [Repealed 1992, c. 57, s. 687.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

25.2 Transmission of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

25.3 Transcription. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

25.4 [Repealed 2002, c. 5, s. 32.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

26 Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

27 Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

28 Recourses prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

29 Annulment of writ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

30 Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

31 Hindrance prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

32 Appointment of staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

33 Payment of indemnities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

34 Remittance by Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

35 Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

36 Fiscal period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

37 Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

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TITLE III — CONTRIBUTIONS

DIVISION 0.I — GENERAL PROVISIONS

37.1 References to remuneration, wages, pensionablesalary and wages paid by a person or an employer . . 362

37.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

37.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

DIVISION I — FACTORSBase Wage

38 Base Wage for each month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

39 Adjustment of averages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Maximum Pensionable Earnings40 For 1966, 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

40.1 Data not published . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

40.2 Revised amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

40.3 Adjustment of averages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Worker’s Maximum Pensionable Earnings41 How determined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Basic Exemption42 For 1966 to 1974 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Personal Exemption43 How determined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Maximum Contributory Earnings44 How determined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Rate of Contribution44.1 Rate of contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

DIVISION II — PENSIONABLE SALARY AND WAGES

45 Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

46 Employment under similar plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

DIVISION III — PENSIONABLE EARNINGS

47 Self-employed earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

47.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

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47.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

48 Pensionable self-employed earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

48.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

49 Computation under similar plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

DIVISION IV — CALCULATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Contribution of Employee50 Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

50.0.1 [Repealed 2006, c. 36, s. 286.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

50.1 Deemed employer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Overpayment51 Overpayment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

51.1 [Repealed 1988, c. 4, s. 159.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Contribution of Employer52 Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Overpayment52.1 [Repealed 2005, c. 1, s. 336(1).]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Contribution of Self-Employed Worker53 Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Special Exemption54 Earnings less than minimum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Optional contribution[Heading amended 2007, c. 12, s. 314.]

55 Computation of contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

DIVISION V — RECONCILIATION OF DATA WITH RESPECT TO

SALARY AND WAGES

56 Salary and wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

57 Payment not deducted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

58 Substitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

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DIVISION VI — COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS ON SALARY

AND WAGES

Deduction at Source59 Deduction by employer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

59.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

60 Employer’s liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

61 Date of payment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

62 Action prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Payment of Contributions63 Payment to Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

64 Reversal of Minister’s decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Assessment65 Application to Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

65.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

66 Assessment by Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

67 Validity of assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Objection to Assessment68 Notice of objection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

69 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

70 Minister’s decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Collection71 Presumption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Imputation72 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

73 Deemed fiscal law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

DIVISION VII — COLLECTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS IN RESPECT

OF SELF-EMPLOYED EARNINGS

74 Default to file return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

75 Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

76 Provisions to apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

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DIVISION VIII — REFUNDS

78 Refunding overpayment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

78.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

78.1 [Repealed 2005, c. 1, s. 339(1).]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

79 Refunding overpayment under agreement withauthority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

80 Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

DIVISION IX — REGULATIONS AND PENAL PROVISIONS

81 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

82 [Repealed 2005, c. 38, s. 361.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

82.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

83 Offence and penalty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

84 Restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

85 Offences and penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

TITLE IV — BENEFITS

DIVISION I — INTERPRETATIONChild of a contributor

86 Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

87. [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 15.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

91 Surviving spouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

91.1 Surviving spouse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

91.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

92 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 17.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

93 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 17.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Presumed Death94 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 20.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Disability95 Nature of disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

95.1 Disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

95.2 Medical examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

95.3 Objection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

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95.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

96 Date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

Indemnity96.1 ‘‘replacement indemnity” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

96.2 ‘‘month of indemnity”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

96.3 Period of indemnity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

96.4 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 22.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Basic Number of Contributory Months97 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 24.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Unadjusted Pensionable Earnings and reconciliationof data with respect to self-employed earnings

98 Unadjusted pensionable earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

99 Unadjusted pensionable earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

99.1 [Repealed 1993, s. 15, s. 25.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Pensionable Earnings for a Month100 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 27.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Contributory Period101 Contributory period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Total Pensionable Earnings102 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 28.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

DIVISION I.1 — PARTITION OF UNADJUSTED PENSIONABLE

EARNINGS

[Heading amended 1997, c. 73, s. 29.]

§1 — Partition of earnings for the period of marriage orcivil union

[Heading amended 1997, c. 73, s. 29; 2002, c. 6, s. 157.]

102.1 Partition of pensionable earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

102.2 ‘‘former spouses” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

102.3 Period to which partition applies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

102.3.1 Statement of unadjusted pensionable earnings . . . . . . 406

102.4 Excluded months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

102.4.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

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102.5 Application for partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

102.6 Legal representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

102.7 Supporting documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

102.7.1 Notice of partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

102.8 Withdrawal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

102.8.1 Subsequent partition prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

102.8.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

102.9 Benefit recomputed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

102.10 Partition deemed effected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

102.10.1 Applicable provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

102.10.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

§2 — Partition of earnings for the periods of de factounion

102.10.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

102.10.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

102.10.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

102.10.6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

102.10.7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

102.10.8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

102.10.9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

102.10.10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

102.11 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 32.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

102.12 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 32.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

103 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 36.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

104 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 36.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

DIVISION II — QUALIFICATIONS FOR BENEFIT

105 Kinds of pensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

105.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

105.1 Disability pension reduced by amount of indemnity . 414

105.2 Disability pension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

105.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

106 Disability pension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

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106.1 Disability pension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

106.2 Disability pension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

106.3 Retirement pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

107 Death benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

107.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

107.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

108 Surviving spouses pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

108.1 Single pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

108.2 Greater pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

108.3 Remarriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

108.4 Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

109-113 [Repealed 1983, c. 12, s. 12.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

114 Death within year after marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

115 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 40.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

DIVISION III — CALCULATION OF BENEFITS

Basic Amount116 Basic amount. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

116.1 Pensionable Earnings for One Month. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

116.2 Average Monthly Pensionable Earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . 421

116.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

116.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

116.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

116.6 Maximum Monthly Retirement Pension . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Pension Index117 Pension Index for 1967 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Revision118 Incomplete data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Annual Adjustment119 Annual adjustment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

119.1 Publication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Retirement Pension120 Basic monthly amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

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120.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

120.1 Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

120.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

120.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

120.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

121 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 46.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

122 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 43.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Disability Pension123 Basic monthly amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

124 Flat rate benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

125 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 48.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

126 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 48.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

127 Contributory period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Death Benefit128 Calculation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

129 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 50.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

130 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 50.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

131 [Repealed 1997, c. 73, s. 50.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Surviving spouse’s pension132 Basic monthly amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

132.1 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 51.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

133 Basic monthly amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

133.1 Child of contributor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

134 Basic monthly amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

134.1-134.4 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 51.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

135 Basic monthly amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

136 Basic monthly amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

137 Amount of retirement pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

137.1 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 51.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Orphan’s pension and a disabled contributor’schild’s pension

138 Basic monthly amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

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DIVISION IV — PAYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF BENEFITS

General Provisions139 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

139.1 Cancellation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

139.2 Presumption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437

140 Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

141 Interim benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

142 Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

142.1 Single payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

143 How benefit paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

143.0.1 Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

143.0.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

143.1 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

143.2 Suspension of payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

144 Prescription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

145 Unassignability and unseizability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

145.1 Withholding of costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

146 Pension not considered from succession . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Recovery of benefits147 Benefit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

148 Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

149 Formal notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

150 Repayment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

151 Certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

152 Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

153-155 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 59.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Retirement pension156 [Repealed 1989, c. 42, s. 5.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

156.1 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

157 [Repealed 1989, c. 42, s. 6.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

157.1 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

157.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

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158 Duration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

158.1 [Repealed 2011, c. 36, s. 22.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

158.2 [Repealed 2011, c. 36, s. 22.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Partition of a retirement pension between spouses158.3 Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

158.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

158.5 Retirement pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

158.6 Contributory period and period of marriage. . . . . . . . 447

158.7 Effective date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

158.8 Effective period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

159-164.1 [Repealed 1989, c. 42, s. 9.]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Disability Pension165 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

165.1 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 62.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

166 Cessation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

167 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 64.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Death benefit168 Death benefit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

169 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Surviving Spouse’s Pension170 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

171 Duration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Orphan’s Pension and Disabled Contributor’s Child’sPension

172 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

172.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

173 Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

174 Cessation of payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

175 Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

176 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

176.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

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DIVISION V — PARTICIPATION IN MORE THAN ONE PLAN

177 Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

177.1 Partitions effected inaccordance with agreement . . . . 454

178 Financial adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

179 Amount if no agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

180 Total pensionable earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

180.1 Proportion replaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

DIVISION VI — ADMINISTRATIVE AGREEMENTS

180.2 Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

180.3 Payment by Board to Socieee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

TITLE V — REVIEW AND PROCEEDING BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATIVE

TRIBUNAL OF QUEBEC

DIVISION I — REVIEW OF DECISIONS OF THE MINISTER

181.-183 [Repealed 1991, c. 13, s. 1.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

184 Applicable provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

185 Division deemed fiscal law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

DIVISION II — REVIEW OF DECISION OF THE BOARD

186 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

187 Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

DIVISION III — PROCEEDING BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATIVE

TRIBUNAL OF QUEBEC

188 Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

189 Certificate of no appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

190 [Repealed 1993, c. 15, s. 76.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

TITLE VI — ADMINISTRATION

DIVISION I — RECORD OF CONTRIBUTORS

191 Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458

192 Application by contributor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

193 Reconsideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

194 Rectification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

194.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

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195 Notification of reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

DIVISION I.1 — PHASED RETIREMENT

195.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

DIVISION II — SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBER

196 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

197 Duty of employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

198 Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

199 Duty of employee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

200 Application for number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

201 Board assigns number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

202 Application to be signed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

203 Application on change of name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

204 Application notwithstanding default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

205 Assignment by Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

206 Agreement with Government of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . 465

DIVISION III — PRIVILEGED INFORMATION207 Information privileged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

208 Information to the Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

209 Legal proceedings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

210 Exception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

211 Agreement with other government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

212 Agreement with other government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

213 Agreement with other government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

214 Information to government bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

DIVISION IV — RECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS

215 Country other than Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

DIVISION V — ACTUARIAL REPORT

216 Actuarial valuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

217 Report before amendment of act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

217.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

218 Actuary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

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218.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

DIVISION VI — REGULATIONS

219 Subject matter of regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

220 Approval and publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

221 Agreements authorized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

222 [Repealed 1991, c. 13, s. 3.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

DIVISION VII — PENAL PROVISIONS

223 Offences and penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

224 Corporation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

225 Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

226 [Repealed 1992, c. 61, s. 522.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

227 [Repealed 1992, c. 61, s. 523.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

TITLE VII — FINAL PROVISIONS

228 Application of certain provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

229 Repayment by Board to Minister. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

230 Amount of repayment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

231 Persons for whom repayment is made . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

OLD AGE SECURITY ACT

SHORT TITLE1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

INTERPRETATION2 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

2.1 Amount of full pension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

2.2 References to ‘‘sixty years” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

PART I — MONTHLY PENSION

Pension Payable3 Payment of full pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

4 Residence in Canada must be or have been legal. . . . 492

4.1 Presumption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

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5 Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

5.1 Withdrawal of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Information from Statistics Canada6 Census statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Amount of Pension7 Basic amount of full pension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

7.1 Voluntary deferral — full monthly pension. . . . . . . . . 496

Payment of Pension8 Commencement of pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

9 Suspension of pension where pensioner leavesCanada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

9.1 Request that pension cease to be payable . . . . . . . . . . 499

9.2 Resumption of pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

9.3 Request to cancel pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

PART II — MONTHLY GUARANTEED INCOME SUPPLEMENT

Interpretation10 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Supplement Payable11 Supplement payable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Amount of Supplement12 Amounts on April 1, 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

12.1 Additional amount — paragraph 12(1)(a) . . . . . . . . . . 508

Calculation of Income13 Calculation of income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

Statement or Estimate of Income14 Statement of income to be made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

Spouses and Common-law Partners[Heading amended 2000, c. 12, s. 193.]

15 Information required with application forsupplement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Payment of Supplement16 Consideration of application or waiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

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17 Payment of supplement to be made in arrears . . . . . . 524

Adjustment of Payments18 Adjustment of payments of supplements . . . . . . . . . . . 524

[Proposed] Cessation of Payment[Heading added 2012, c. 19, s. 458. Not in force at date of

publication.]

18.1 [Proposed] Request that supplement cease to bepayable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

[Proposed] Cancellation of Payment[Heading added 2012, c. 19, s. 458. Not in force at date of

publication.]

18.2 [Proposed] Request to cancel supplement. . . . . . . . . . . 525

PART III — MONTHLY ALLOWANCES

[Heading amended 2000, c. 12, s. 195.]

Allowance Payable19 Payment of allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

20 Failure to comply with Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

21 Payment of spouse’s allowance to widows andwidowers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Amount of Allowance22 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

22.1 Additional amount — subsection 22(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

Commencement of Allowance23 Commencement of allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

Payment of Allowance24 Consideration of application or waiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

25 Payment of an allowance to be made in arrears. . . . . 549

26 Application of Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

[Proposed] Cessation of Payment[Heading added 2012, c. 19, s. 463. Not in force at date of

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26.01 [Proposed] Request that allowance cease to bepayable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

[Proposed] Cancellation of Payment[Heading added 2012, c. 19, s. 463. Not in force at date of

publication.]

26.02 [Proposed] Request to cancel allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

PART IV — GENERAL

Effect of Waiver[Heading added 2007, c. 11, s. 22.]

26.1 Deeming provision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Inviting Applications[Heading added 2012, c. 19, s. 464.]

26.2 Inviting persons to apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

Adjustment in Consumer Price Index27 Where basis of Consumer Price Index changed . . . . . 552

Reconsiderations and Appeals27.1 Request for reconsideration by Minister . . . . . . . . . . . 552

28 Appeal — benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

Incapacity28.1 Incapacity when application actually made . . . . . . . . . 554

Death[Heading amended 2000, c. 12, s. 201.]

29 Application for pension by estate, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

30 Retroactive application by survivor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

31 Presumption as to death of applicant orbeneficiary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

Erroneous Advice or Administrative Error[Heading added 2000, c. 12, s. 203.]

32 Where person denied benefit due to departmentalerror, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Availability of Information[Heading amended 2012, c. 19, s. 299.]

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33 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

33.01 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.02 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.03 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.04 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.05 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.06 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.07 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.08 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.09 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.1 Information obtained under other Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . 558

33.11 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

33.12 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

33.13 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 299.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

Regulations34 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

34.1 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 238.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

34.2 Regulations — payment of interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Form of Documents35 Form of applications, statements and notifications . . 562

35.1 Making claim or providing information in person. . . 562

Benefits36 Benefit not assignable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

37 Return of benefit where recipient not entitled. . . . . . . 563

Oaths and Affidavits38 Commissioners for oaths, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566

Agreements39 Payment of provincial benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

40 Reciprocal arrangements re administration, etc . . . . . 567

41 Coming into force of agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568

42 Tabling order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

43 Negative resolution of Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

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Offences[Heading amended 2007, c. 11, s. 31.]

44 Offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Administrative Monetary Penalties[Heading added 2007, c. 11, s. 32.]

44.1 Penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Administration and Enforcement[Heading added 2007, c. 11, s. 34.]

44.2 Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Consolidated Revenue Fund45 Payment out of C.R.F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Administration and Annual Report46 Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

46.1 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 239.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

47 Annual report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT

SHORT TITLE1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

INTERPRETATION2 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580

REPORT

3 Commission to assess adjustment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

MAXIMUM YEARLY INSURABLE EARNINGS

4 Maximum yearly insurable earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

INSURABLE EMPLOYMENT

5 Types of insurable employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

PART I— UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

Interpretation6 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

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Qualifying for Benefits7 Benefits payable to persons who qualify . . . . . . . . . . . 590

7.1 Increase in required hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

8 Qualifying period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Benefit Period9 Establishment of benefit period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

10 Beginning of benefit period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

11 Week of unemployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Payment of Benefits12 Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

13 Waiting period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Rate of Benefits14 Rate of weekly benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

15 [Repealed 2001, c. 5, s. 5.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

16 Rate increase — family supplement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

17 Maximum rate of weekly benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Disentitlement to Benefits18 Availability for work, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Deductions from Benefits19 Earnings in waiting period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

20 Deduction for excluded days in waiting period . . . . . 609

Special Benefits21 Illness, etc. — minor attachment claimants . . . . . . . . . 610

22 Pregnancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

23 Parental benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

23.1 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

23.2 Benefits — critically ill child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Work-Sharing24 Regulations for work-sharing benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Courses, Programs and Employment Benefits25 Status of claimants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

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26 Benefits are not earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Disqualification and Disentitlement27 Disqualification — general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

28 Duration of disqualification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

29 Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

30 Disqualification — misconduct or leaving withoutjust cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

31 Disentitlement — suspension for misconduct . . . . . . . 631

32 Disentitlement — period of leave without justcause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

33 Disentitlement — anticipated loss of employment . . . 631

34 Suspension of disentitlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

35 Exception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

36 Labour disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632

37 Prison inmates and persons outside Canada . . . . . . . . 633

Penalties38 Penalty for claimants, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633

39 Penalty for employers, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

40 Limitation on imposition of penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

41 Rescission, etc., of penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

41.1 Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636

Non-assignment of Benefits and Liability to ReturnBenefits and Pay Penalties

42 Benefits not assignable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

43 Liability for overpayments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

44 Liability to return overpayment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

45 Return of benefits by claimant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

46 Return of benefits by employer or other person. . . . . 638

46.01 Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

46.1 Liability of directors to pay penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

47 Debts to Crown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

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Claim Procedure48 Claim required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

49 Proof required. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

50 Entitlement to benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

51 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

52 Reconsideration of claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

53 Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Regulations54 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

55 Hours of insurable employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

PART II — EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND NATIONAL

EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

56 Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

57 Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

58 Definition of ‘‘insured participant” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

59 Employment benefits for insured participants. . . . . . . 652

60 National employment service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

61 Financial assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

62 Agreements for administering employment benefitsand support measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

63 Agreements for paying costs of similar benefits andmeasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

64 No appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

65 Liability for repayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

65.1 Penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

65.2 Debts due to the Crown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

PART III — PREMIUMS AND OTHER FINANCIAL MATTERS

Interpretation[Heading added 2008, c. 28, s. 125.]

65.21 Definition of ‘‘actuary”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Premiums65.3 [Repealed 2008, c. 28, s. 126.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

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66 Annual premium rate setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

66.1 Information provided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

66.2 Information provided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

66.3 Actuary’s report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

66.31 Report and summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662

66.32 [Proposed] Premium rate setting by Governor inCouncil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

66.4 Rounding percentage rates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

66.5 [Repealed 2013, c. 40, s. 132.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

66.6 User Fees Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

67 Employee’s premium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

68 Employer’s premium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

69 Premium reduction — wage-loss plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

70 Overlapping pay periods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

70.1 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 613.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Employment Insurance Operating Account[Heading added 2010, c. 12, s. 2185.]

70.2 Employment Insurance Operating Accountestablished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

[Heading repealed 2010, c. 12, s. 2186.]

71 [Repealed 2010, c. 12, s. 2186.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

72 Payment into Consolidated Revenue Fund . . . . . . . . . 667

73 Credits to Employment Insurance OperatingAccount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

73.1 Benefit enhancements under this Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

74 Government premiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

75 Other credits to Employment Insurance OperatingAccount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

76 [Repealed 2010, c. 12, s. 2187.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

77 Charges to the Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

77.1 Forecasts and estimates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

78 Maximum amount that may be paid under Part II . . 670

79 Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

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80 [Repealed 2010, c. 12, s. 2188.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

80.1 Regulations — payment of interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

PART IV — INSURABLE EARNINGS AND COLLECTION OF

PREMIUMS

Interpretation81 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Payment of Premiums82 Deduction and payment of premiums. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

82.1 Succession of employers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

83 Liability of directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

84 Employer’s premium not recoverable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

85 Assessment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

86 Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677

87 Records and books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

88 Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680

89 Protection of employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Rulings and Appeals90 Request for ruling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

90.1 Determination of questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

91 Appeal of rulings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

92 Appeal of assessments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

93 Notification of appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

94 Minister’s authority not restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Overpayments and Refunds95 Employee overpayment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

96 Refund — overpayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Administration97 Minister’s duty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

98 Application of section 223 of the Income Tax Act. . . 694

99 Application of Income Tax Act provisions . . . . . . . . . 694

100 Financial institutions to receive cheques. . . . . . . . . . . . 695

101 Execution of documents by corporations . . . . . . . . . . . 695

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102 Information or complaint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

Objection and Review103 Appeal to the Tax Court of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

104 Authority to decide questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

105 Decision final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

Offences106 Offence and punishment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

107 Officers, etc., of corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Regulations108 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

PART V — PILOT PROJECTS

109 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

110 Expiration of regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

PART VI — ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

Administrative Review[Heading amended 2012, c. 19, s. 247.]

111 Rescission or amendment of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

[Heading repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.]

112 Reconsideration — Commission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

112.1 Decision not reviewable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

113 Appeal to Social Security Tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

[Heading repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.]

114 Payment of benefit pending appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

115 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

116 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

117 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

118 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

119 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

120 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

121 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

122 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

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123 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 247.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Investigations124 Investigation by Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Enforcement125 Information or complaint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

126 Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

127 [Repealed 2005, c. 34, s. 64.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

128 [Repealed 2005, c. 34, s. 64.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

129 Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

130 Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

131 Question under section 90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719

132 Question for Commission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

133 Spouse as witness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

134 Evidence of documents, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Offences and Punishment135 Offence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

136 Contravention of Act or regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

137 General penalty for offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

Social Insurance Number138 Obligation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

139 Change of name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

140 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

141 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 308.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

Reports142 Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

[Heading repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 250.]

143 [Repealed 2012, c. 19, s. 250.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

PART VII — BENEFIT REPAYMENT

144 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724

145 Benefit repayment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

146 Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

147 Estimate of benefit repayment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

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148 Responsible Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

149 Application of Income Tax Act provisions . . . . . . . . . 727

150 Debts due Her Majesty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

151 Communication of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727

152 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

PART VII.1 — BENEFITS FOR SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS

[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

Interpretation[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.01 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

Application[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.02 Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731

Benefits[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.03 Illness, injury or quarantine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 732

152.04 Pregnancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

152.05 Parental benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

152.06 Compassionate care benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737

152.061Benefits — critically ill child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

Qualifying for Benefits[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.07 Qualification requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744

152.08 Qualifying period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

152.09 Benefits under this Part and Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746

Benefit Period[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.1 Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

152.11 Beginning of benefit period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

152.12 Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

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Payment of Benefits[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.13 Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

152.14 Maximum number of weeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752

152.15 Waiting period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

152.16 Rate of weekly benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754

152.17 Rate increase — family supplement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

152.18 Earnings in waiting period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755

152.19 Deduction for excluded days in waiting period . . . . . 756

152.2 Prison inmates and persons outside Canada . . . . . . . . 757

Premium[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.21 Premium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

Self-employed Earnings and Collection of Premiums[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.22 Return to be filed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758

152.23 Estimate to be made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759

152.24 Examination of return and notice of assessment . . . . 759

152.25 Payment of premium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760

152.26 Interest on unpaid premium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761

152.27 Failure to file a return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

152.28 Application of Income Tax Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763

152.29 Priority in which payment to be applied . . . . . . . . . . . 764

152.3 Refund of excess premium in respect of self-employedearnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764

Application of other Provisions[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.31 Application of other provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765

Delegation[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.311Delegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

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Offences[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.32 Offence and punishment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

Regulations[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.33 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766

Review of this Part[Heading added 2009, c. 33, s. 16.]

152.34 Review of this Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

PART VIII — SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS ENGAGED IN FISHING153 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767

PART VIII.1 — ALTERNATE ACCESS TO SPECIAL BENEFITS

[Heading amended 2000, c. 14, s. 5.]

153.1 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769

PART VIII.2 — REGULATIONS — PROVINCIAL PLANS

[Heading added 2005, c. 30, s. 131.]

153.2 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

PART IX — REPEALS, TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS, RELATED AND

CONDITIONAL AMENDMENTS AND COMING INTO FORCERepeals

154 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

155 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

Transitional ProvisionsNational Training Act

156 Allowances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771

157 Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

158 [Repealed 2010, c. 12, s. 2190.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

Unemployment Insurance Act159 Benefit periods beginning before this section comes

into force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772

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160 Hours of insurable employment and earnings before1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773

161 Premiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

162 [Repealed 2010, c. 12, s. 2192.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

163 Estimated insurable earnings for 1996-97. . . . . . . . . . . 774

164 Powers and functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

165 Waivers and agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

[Heading repealed 2010, c. 12, s. 2193.]

166 [Repealed 2010, c. 12, s. 2193.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

Transitional Regulations167 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Consequential and Related AmendmentsBankruptcy and Insolvency Act

168 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Employment and Immigration Department andCommission Act

169 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775

Excise Tax Act170 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

Income Tax Act171 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

172 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

172.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

173 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776

174 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

175 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

176 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

Labour Adjustment Benefits Act177 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

178 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 777

179 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

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180 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

181 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

182 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

183 Transitional provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

Tax Court of Canada Act184 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

185 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

Tax Rebate Discounting Act186 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

Changes in Terminology187 References to Unemployment Insurance Act . . . . . . . . . 780

Conditional Amendments188 An Act to amend the Cultural Property Export and

Import Act, the Income Tax Act and the Tax Courtof Canada Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780

189 Bill C-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781

Coming into Force190 Coming into force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783

SCHEDULE I — TABLE OF WEEKS OF BENEFITS

SCHEDULE II — INTERIM PROVISIONS

List of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 805

Glossary of Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811

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