﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2018-07-06" lims:lastAmendedDate="2018-07-06" lims:current-date="2019-06-21" lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851850" lims:id="851850" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851851" lims:id="851851"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2018-159</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2018</YYYY><MM>7</MM><DD>6</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06"><Date><YYYY>2019</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>22</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851853" lims:id="851853"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">SPECIES AT RISK ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851854" lims:id="851854">Critical Habitat of the Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) Quebec Populations Order</LongTitle></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851855" lims:id="851855"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851856" lims:id="851856" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Whereas the Eastern Sand Darter (<Language xml:lang="la">Ammocrypta pellucida</Language>) Quebec populations 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_a">a</FootnoteRef>;</Text><Footnote id="fn_a" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2002, c. 29</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851857" lims:id="851857" 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="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851858" lims:id="851858" 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_b">b</FootnoteRef> of that Act;</Text><Footnote id="fn_b" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>S.C. 2015, c. 10, s. 60</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851859" lims:id="851859" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, pursuant to subsections 58(4) and (5) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="S-15.3">Species at Risk Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_a">a</FootnoteRef>, makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2018-159">Critical Habitat of the Eastern Sand Darter (Ammocrypta pellucida) Quebec Populations Order</XRefExternal>.</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851860" lims:id="851860" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Ottawa, July 3, 2018</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851861" lims:id="851861" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" topmarginspacing="12" list-item="no"><TableGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851862" lims:id="851862" bilingual="yes" orientation="portrait" pointsize="11pt" topmarginspacing="50pt" rowbreak="no" spanlanguages="no"><table lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851863" lims:id="851863" frame="none"><tgroup lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851864" lims:id="851864" cols="2"><colspec colname="1" colwidth="100*" /><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="100.00*" /><tbody lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851865" lims:id="851865"><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">Le ministre des Pêches et des Océans,</Language></SignatureTitle><SignatureLine justification="center" topmarginspacing="30"><Leader leader="solid" length="20pc" /></SignatureLine><SignatureName justification="center">Dominic LeBlanc</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="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851866" lims:id="851866"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:lastAmendedDate="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851867" lims:id="851867"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851868" lims:id="851868">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 Eastern Sand Darter (<Language xml:lang="la">Ammocrypta pellucida</Language>) Quebec populations, 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="2018-07-06" lims:lastAmendedDate="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851869" lims:id="851869"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2018-07-06" lims:fid="851870" lims:id="851870">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>