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excluding, however, any calendar quarter or portion thereof which occurs
prior to January 1, 1937, or the equivalent thereof as the Board may by
regulation prescribe.

(q) "Benefit Year" means the twelve-consecutive-month period ending
March 31st.

(r) "Base Period" means the twelve-consecutive-month period ending
December 31st, immediately preceding the .first day of a benefit year.

1939, ch. 278, sec. 19A.

20. (a) As used in this Section unless the context clearly requires
otherwise:

(1) "Old law" means the Unemployment Compensation Law prior to
its amendment by Chapter 278, Acts of 1939.

(2) "New law" means the Unemployment Compensation Law as
amended by Chapter 278, Acts of 1939.

(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided in sub-section (c) of this
section, the new law shall be exclusively applicable with respect to any
individual on and after April 1, 1939. No provision of the old law shall
be construed to limit or to extend the rights of any individual as fixed
by the new law, after the new law becomes exclusively applicable with
respect to such individual as provided in this Section.

(c) (1) With respect to any individual for whom there is current a
benefit year, established pursuant to the old law, which has not expired
prior to April 1, 1939, Sections 19 (s) (base period), 19 (r) (benefit
year), 3 (e) (duration of benefits), and 4 (e) (qualifying wages) of the
old law, and the weekly benefit amount determined pursuant to Section
19 (q), 3 (b) and 3 (d) of the old law, shall be exclusively applicable
until the expiration of such current benefit year, except that:

(A) Notwithstanding any provision of Sections 19 (s) and 3 (d) of
the old law to the contrary, the base period of such individual and the
period usable in the determination or redetermination of his full-time
weekly wage, under the old law, shall in no event extend after December
31, 1938; and

(B) Notwithstanding any provision of Section 4 (d) of the old or new
law to the contrary, no waiting period shall be required of any such indi-
vidual after April 1,1939, and before the expiration of such current benefit
year; and

(C) Notwithstanding any provision of the old law to the contrary, the
weekly benefit amount and the maximum total benefits payable during
such current benefit year shall, if not a multiple of $1.00, be computed to
the next higher multiple of $1.00, with respect to all weeks of unemploy-
ment occurring after April 1, 1939; and

(D) If such current benefit year is the individual's second benefit year
established pursuant to the old law, there shall be added to the maximum
total benefits payable during such current benefit year the amount (if any)
by which such maximum total benefits are exceeded by the maximum
total benefits, which would have been payable under Sections 3 and 4 (e)
of the new law during the benefit year beginning April 1, 1939, but such
aggregate total benefits shall not exceed sixteen times the weekly benefit
amount established pursuant to the old law.

(2) Sections 19 (q), 19 (r), 3 (b) (1), 3 (c), and 4 (e) of the new
law shall be exclusively applicable with respect to such individual after
the expiration of such benefit year, except that the maximum total amount