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Duration of payment.
[1952, s. 16; 1978 AM, s. 13 (1)]
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22.—(1) Where a person—
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(a) has qualifying contributions in respect of less than 156 contribution weeks in the period between his entry into insurance and any day of incapacity for work, and
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(b) before that day has been entitled, in respect of any period of interruption of employment (whether including that day or not), to disability benefit for 312 days,
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he shall not be entitled to disability benefit for that day unless since the last of the said 312 days and before that day he has requalified for benefit.
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(2) Where a person has exhausted his right to disability benefit—
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(a) he shall requalify therefor when he has qualifying contributions in respect of 13 contribution weeks begun or ended since the last day for which he was entitled to benefit, and
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(b) on his requalifying therefor, subsection (1) shall again apply to him but, in a case where the period of interruption of employment in which he exhausted his right to benefit continues after his requalification, as if the part before and the part after his requalification were distinct periods of interruption of employment.
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(3) Regulations may provide for treating a person for the purposes of this section as having been entitled to benefit for any day if he would have been so entitled but for any delay or failure on his part to make or prosecute a claim or give a notice, subject to the proviso that a person shall not be so treated where he shows that he did not intend, by failing to acquire or establish a right to benefit for that day, to avoid the necessity of requalifying for benefit under this section.
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