<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2023-10-20" lims:lastAmendedDate="2023-10-20" lims:current-date="2023-10-31" lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426029" lims:id="1426029" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426030" lims:id="1426030"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2023-221</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2023</YYYY><MM>10</MM><DD>20</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2023</YYYY><MM>11</MM><DD>1</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426031" lims:id="1426031"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">SPECIES AT RISK ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426032" lims:id="1426032">Critical Habitat of the Atlantic Mud-piddock (Barnea truncata) Order</LongTitle></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426033" lims:id="1426033"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426034" lims:id="1426034" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the Atlantic Mud-piddock (<Language xml:lang="la">Barnea truncata</Language>) is a wildlife species that is listed as a threatened species in Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5152_E_hq_1684344285">a</FootnoteRef>;</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5152_E_hq_1684344285" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2002, c. 29</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426035" lims:id="1426035" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the recovery strategy that identified the critical habitat of that species has been included in the Species at Risk Public Registry;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426036" lims:id="1426036" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>And whereas no portion of the critical habitat of that species that is specified in the annexed Order is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5152_E_hq_1684344343">b</FootnoteRef> of that Act;</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5152_E_hq_1684344343" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>S.C. 2015, c. 10, s. 60</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426037" lims:id="1426037" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation">Critical Habitat of the Atlantic Mud-piddock (Barnea truncata) Order</XRefExternal> under subsections 58(4) and (5) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5152_E_hq_1684344285">a</FootnoteRef>.</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426038" lims:id="1426038" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no" topmarginspacing="20"><Text>Ottawa, October 18, 2023</Text><TableGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426039" lims:id="1426039" bilingual="yes" orientation="portrait" pointsize="11pt" rowbreak="no" spanlanguages="no" spanmarginalnotecol="no" topmarginspacing="50pt"><table lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426040" lims:id="1426040" frame="none"><tgroup lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426041" lims:id="1426041" cols="2"><colspec colname="1" colwidth="100*" /><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="100.00*" /><tbody lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426042" lims:id="1426042"><row rowsep="0"><entry colsep="0" nameend="COLSPEC0" namest="1" rowsep="0" valign="top"><SignatureBlock justification="center" width="20pc"><SignatureTitle justification="center"><Language xml:lang="fr">La ministre des Pêches et des Océans</Language></SignatureTitle><SignatureLine justification="center" topmarginspacing="30"><Leader leader="solid" length="20pc" /></SignatureLine><SignatureName justification="center">Diane Lebouthillier</SignatureName><SignatureTitle justification="center"><Language xml:lang="en">Minister of Fisheries and Oceans</Language></SignatureTitle></SignatureBlock></entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></TableGroup></Provision></Order><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426043" lims:id="1426043"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:lastAmendedDate="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426044" lims:id="1426044"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426045" lims:id="1426045">Application</MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>Subsection 58(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal> applies to the critical habitat of the Atlantic Mud-piddock (<Language xml:lang="la">Barnea truncata</Language>), which is identified in the recovery strategy for that species that is included in the Species at Risk Public Registry.</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:lastAmendedDate="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426046" lims:id="1426046" type="CIFnobold"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2023-10-20" lims:enacted-date="2023-10-20" lims:fid="1426047" lims:id="1426047">Coming into force</MarginalNote><Label>2</Label><Text>This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.</Text></Section></Body></Regulation>