S-3.2 - Act respecting income security for Cree hunters and trappers who are beneficiaries under the Agreement concerning James Bay and Northern Québec

Section 6 Disposition versions

1988-12-23

6. A beneficiary unit is eligible to receive income security benefits if, in cases where the Board has been informed in accordance with section 31.3 of the existence of a local committee, the name of its head appears on the list submitted to the Board not later than 21 June each year or, as the case may be, on the list revised in accordance with section 31.11 and submitted to the Board not later than 1 August each year, and if during the year preceding the submission of the application contemplated in section 32:

(a)  its head spent at least 120 days conducting harvesting and related activities of which at least 90 days were spent away from a settlement, and spent more time, during the same period, conducting harvesting and related activities than time in wage employment, without taking into account, in either case, time spent in guiding, outfitting or commercial fishing or the period of time in which he was in receipt of unemployment insurance, workmen’s compensation or manpower training allowances;

(b)  it derived the greater part of its earnings from harvesting and related activities, excluding earnings from guiding, outfitting or commercial fishing;

(c)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and one of its members was the victim of an accident while pursuing harvesting or related activities, or suffered a disability, which resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b;

(d)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and one of its members was the victim of an accident during seasonal employment, which resulted in his becoming eligible for workmen’s compensation and which also resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b;

(e)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and its head was forced to abandon or diminish his harvesting and related activities by reason of government action or development activities or in order to allow animal populations to increase to a harvestable level, which resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b;

(f)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and its head was engaged in a manpower or self-improvement programme, which resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b;

(g)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and its head was engaged in temporary employment on a community improvement programme the object of which was to improve living conditions in the Cree community, financed by governmental programmes or by the resources of the Cree community, which resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b; or

(h)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and its head was unable to participate in harvesting and related activities by reason of her pregnancy, the aftereffects of her pregnancy or the care required by her child, thereby rendering the unit ineligible under paragraph a or b.

Furthermore, harvesting or related activities may be replaced, for the purposes of the eligibility of a beneficiary unit, by land development activities, to the extent and on the conditions determined by the Board, after a specific activity has been the subject of a decision of the Minister pursuant to a unanimous recommendation of the Board to the effect that it is a land development activity.

1979, c. 16, s. 6; 1988, c. 60, s. 2.

1979-08-01

6. A beneficiary unit is eligible to receive income security benefits if, during the year preceding the submission of the application contemplated in section 32,

(a)  its head spent at least 120 days conducting harvesting and related activities of which at least 90 days were spent away from a settlement, and spent more time, during the same period, conducting harvesting and related activities than time in wage employment, without taking into account, in either case, time spent in guiding, outfitting or commercial fishing or the period of time in which he was in receipt of unemployment insurance, workmen’s compensation or manpower training allowances;

(b)  it derived the greater part of its earnings from harvesting and related activities, excluding earnings from guiding, outfitting or commercial fishing;

(c)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and one of its members was the victim of an accident while pursuing harvesting or related activities, or suffered a disability, which resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b;

(d)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and one of its members was the victim of an accident during seasonal employment, which resulted in his becoming eligible for workmen’s compensation and which also resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b;

(e)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and its head was forced to abandon or diminish his harvesting and related activities in order to allow animal populations to increase to a harvestable level, which resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b;

(f)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and its head was engaged in a manpower or self-improvement programme, which resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b; or

(g)  it was eligible under paragraph a or b and its head was engaged in temporary employment on a community improvement programme the object of which was to improve living conditions in the Cree community, financed by governmental programmes or by the resources of the Cree community, which resulted in such unit’s not being eligible under paragraph a or b.

Furthermore, harvesting or related activities may be replaced, for the purposes of the eligibility of a beneficiary unit, by land development activities, to the extent and on the conditions determined by the Board, after a specific activity has been the subject of a decision of the Minister to the effect that it is a land development activity.

1979, c. 16, s. 6.