<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2023-09-07" lims:lastAmendedDate="2023-09-07" lims:current-date="2025-02-04" lims:inforce-start-date="2023-09-07" lims:enacted-date="2023-09-07" lims:fid="1421357" lims:id="1421357" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SI" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2023-09-07" lims:enacted-date="2023-09-07" lims:fid="1421358" lims:id="1421358"><InstrumentNumber>SI/2023-63</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2023</YYYY><MM>10</MM><DD>11</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>2</MM><DD>5</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2023-09-07" lims:enacted-date="2023-09-07" lims:fid="1421359" lims:id="1421359"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="F-11">FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2023-09-07" lims:enacted-date="2023-09-07" lims:fid="1421360" lims:id="1421360">Order Designating the Inquiry under the name of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions as a Department and the Prime Minister as the Appropriate Minister</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2023-883</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2023</YYYY><MM>9</MM><DD>7</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2023-09-07" lims:enacted-date="2023-09-07" lims:fid="1421361" lims:id="1421361"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-09-07" lims:enacted-date="2023-09-07" lims:fid="1421362" lims:id="1421362" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister,</Text><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-09-07" lims:enacted-date="2023-09-07" lims:fid="1421363" lims:id="1421363" format-ref="indent-1-1" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>under paragraph (b)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-3-2566_hq_1689080400">a</FootnoteRef> of the definition <DefinitionRef>department</DefinitionRef> in section 2 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="F-11">Financial Administration Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-3-2566_hq_1689080424">b</FootnoteRef>, designates the commission that is named the Inquiry under the name of the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions as a department for the purposes of that Act; and</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-3-2566_hq_1689080400" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 1992, c. 1, s. 69(3)</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_81000-3-2566_hq_1689080424" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>R.S., c. F-11</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-09-07" lims:enacted-date="2023-09-07" lims:fid="1421364" lims:id="1421364" format-ref="indent-1-1" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>under paragraph (b)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-3-2566_hq_1689080463">c</FootnoteRef> of the definition <DefinitionRef>appropriate Minister</DefinitionRef> in section 2 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="F-11">Financial Administration Act</XRefExternal><Sup>b</Sup>, designates the Prime Minister as the appropriate Minister with respect to the commission named in paragraph (a).</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-3-2566_hq_1689080463" placement="page" status="official"><Label>c</Label><Text>S.C. 1992, c. 1, s. 69(1)</Text></Footnote></Provision></Provision></Order></Regulation>