6. For the purposes of section 5, the prescribed period is the number of weeks indicated in Table 1 of the Schedule to the Unemployment Insurance Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. U-1), as the Table reads on 1 June 1992, according to the regional rate of unemployment for the region in which the worker’s domicile is located.
That rate is the average of the seasonally adjusted monthly rates of unemployment for the most recent 3-month period for which statistics have been produced by Statistics Canada prior to the date on which the worker was accepted for the program.
For the purposes of the first paragraph, a region means a region determined according to Schedule II to the Unemployment Insurance Regulations (C.R.C., 1978, c. 1576), as it reads on 1 June 1992.