Unemployment Assistance Act — U-0.6 1
Now, Therefore, this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the premises and of the mutual convenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto hereby convenant and agree each with the other as follows: 1 In this agreement, unless the contrary intention appears, (a) province means the province of ; (b) municipality means a municipal corporation in the province and includes any city, town or local governmental body established under the authority of the law of the province and authorized to administer assistance to unemployed persons who are in need; (c) a recipient of mother’s allowance includes (i) a dependent child of a person receiving a mother’s allowance if such child is within the age group for whom provision is made under the law of the province that provides for the payment of mother’s allowances; and (ii) the husband of a person receiving a mother’s allowance if an allowance is being paid on his behalf under the law of the province that provides for the payment of mothers’ allowances; (d) population means, except in subparagraph 12(a), the most recent estimate of the population of the province made by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and published by the Queen’s Printer at Ottawa prior to the month to which the reimbursement claim relates; (e) homes for special care means nursing homes, hostels for indigent transients, homes for the aged, poor houses, alms houses, and hostel facilities provided for the aged within housing projects constructed under the provisions of the National Housing Act ; and (f) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular. 2 shall make all the necessary arrangements for (a) the receipt, by itself or by municipalities, of applications for assistance from unemployed persons in the province, and (b) the verification of the representations made by applicants and the province shall assume responsibility for the correctness of such representations. 3 shall make available to officials of Canada particulars of (a) the conditions prescribed by or by municipalities under which assistance may be given to persons in need, and (b) the rates of assistance payable. 4 Length of residence shall not be made a condition for the receipt of assistance if (a) the applicant has come from a province whose government has entered into an agreement similar to this respecting unemployment assistance, and (b) such agreement includes a like clause as herein contained in respect of length of residence not being a condition for receipt of assistance. 5 shall deliver to the Minister of National Health and Welfare, at Ottawa, a monthly statement, hereinafter referred to as a reimbursement claim, in such form as Canada may require, indicating, inter alia , (a) the total number of persons who are unemployed and in need in the province, including their dependants, who have received assistance during the month to which the reimbursement claim relates, and (b) the total amounts paid to or on behalf of such persons during the month to which the reimbursement claim relates. 6 shall keep a record of the names and addresses of any persons and of the number of their dependants who have received assistance and the particulars of such assistance, which record shall be made available for examination on request by officials of Canada. 7 There shall be excluded from the reimbursement claim any person, together with any payment made to or on behalf of such person, who is (a) an inmate in any institution maintained in whole or in part out of funds appropriated by (i) the Parliament of Canada, (ii) the Legislature of the province, (iii) a municipality, or (iv) a charitable organization; except that there may be included in the reimbursement claim payments made by the province or by a municipality for the upkeep of inmates in homes for special care and the number of persons in respect of whom such payments are made, provided that said imates are unemployed and in need and the payments clai