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CAN-2020-L-110710
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Title_of_text
Canada Recovery Benefits Act (S.C. 2020, c. 12).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Canada
Subjects (Classification)
Public Health Policy And Regulations
Adopted on (Date of text)
2020-10-02
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Original title
COVID-19 Response Measures Act
Abstract/Citation
Part 1 enacts the Canada Recovery Benefits Act to authorize the payment of the Canada recovery benefit, the Canada recovery sickness benefit and the Canada recovery caregiving benefit to support Canada’s economic recovery in response to COVID-19. It also makes consequential amendments to the Income Tax Act and the Income Tax Regulations.
Part 2 amends the Canada Labour Code to, among other things:
(a) amend the reasons for which an employee is entitled to take leave related to COVID-19, and the number of weeks of that leave that an employee may take for each of those reasons; and
(b) give the Governor in Council the power, until September 25, 2021, to make regulations in certain circumstances to provide that any requirements or conditions, set out in certain provisions of Part III of that Act, respecting certificates issued by a health care practitioner do not apply and to provide for alternative requirements and conditions.
This Part also makes related amendments to the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act to ensure that employees may continue to take leave related to COVID-19 until September 25, 2021. Finally, it makes related amendments to regulations and contains coordinating amendments.
Part 3 amends the Public Health Events of National Concern Payments Act to limit, as of October 1, 2020, the payments that may be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund under that Act to those in respect of specified measures related to COVID-19, up to specified amounts. It also postpones the repeal of that Act until December 31, 2020.
Amended Text region
Amended text(s)
1985 (CAN-1985-L-31449)
Canada Labour Code [R.S.C., 1985, c. L-2].
Amended text(s)
2020-04-11 (CAN-2020-L-110708)
COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, No. 2 (S.C. 2020, c. 6).
Amending Text region
Amending text(s)
2021-03-17 (CAN-2021-L-111410)
An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (additional regular benefits), the Canada Recovery Benefits Act (restriction on eligibility) and another Act in response to COVID-19 (S.C. 2021, c. 3).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line
Author
Department of Justice, Canada
URL
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/
File
CAN110710.pdf (PDF of Act Current to May 19, 2021)