7. For the purposes of subparagraph 4 of the first paragraph of section 3 of the Act, a person whose income is derived from employment has an interruption of earnings if his or her usual weekly income is reduced by at least 40%.
The same applies in the case of a person whose income is derived from a business and who declares having reduced the time devoted to his or her business activities by at least 40%.
Despite the foregoing, a person whose income is obtained as a family-type resource or intermediate resource is deemed to reduce the time devoted to those activities by at least 40%.
A person whose income is derived from more than one of the sources mentioned in the first, second or third paragraph has an interruption of earnings if the reductions described in the corresponding paragraph apply to the person for each source.
O.C. 986-2005, s. 7; O.C. 1209-2011, s. 1.