<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2023-02-28" lims:lastAmendedDate="2023-02-28" lims:current-date="2023-03-06" lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392613" lims:id="1392613" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392614" lims:id="1392614"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2023-36</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2023</YYYY><MM>02</MM><DD>28</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2023</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>7</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392615" lims:id="1392615"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="F-27">FOOD AND DRUGS ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392616" lims:id="1392616">Medical Device Establishment Licence Fees Remission Order (Expedited Examination of Applications During the COVID-19 Pandemic)</LongTitle></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392617" lims:id="1392617"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392618" lims:id="1392618" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes"><Text>The Minister of Health makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation">Medical Device Establishment Licence Fees Remission Order (Expedited Examination of Applications During the COVID-19 Pandemic)</XRefExternal> under section 30.63<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81200-2-655_hq_1664306320">a</FootnoteRef> of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="F-27">Food and Drugs Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81200-2-655_hq_1664306378">b</FootnoteRef>.</Text><Footnote id="fn_81200-2-655_hq_1664306320" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2017, c. 20, s. 317</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_81200-2-655_hq_1664306378" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>R.S., c. F-27</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392619" lims:id="1392619" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" topmarginspacing="12"><Text>Ottawa, February 22, 2023</Text><TableGroup lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392620" lims:id="1392620" bilingual="yes" orientation="portrait" pointsize="11pt" topmarginspacing="50pt"><table lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392621" lims:id="1392621" frame="none"><tgroup lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392622" lims:id="1392622" cols="2"><colspec colname="1" colwidth="100*" /><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="100.00*" /><tbody lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392623" lims:id="1392623"><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 de la Santé,</Language></SignatureTitle><SignatureLine justification="center" topmarginspacing="30"><Leader leader="solid" length="20pc" /></SignatureLine><SignatureName justification="center">Jean-Yves Duclos</SignatureName><SignatureTitle justification="center"><Language xml:lang="en">Minister of Health</Language></SignatureTitle></SignatureBlock></entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></TableGroup></Provision></Order><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392624" lims:id="1392624"><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392625" lims:id="1392625" level="1"><TitleText>Interpretation</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:lastAmendedDate="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392626" lims:id="1392626"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392627" lims:id="1392627">Definition of <DefinedTermEn>Regulations</DefinedTermEn></MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Subsection lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392628" lims:id="1392628"><Label>(1)</Label><Text>In this Order, <DefinedTermEn>Regulations</DefinedTermEn> means the <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-98-282">Medical Devices Regulations</XRefExternal>.</Text></Subsection><Subsection lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392629" lims:id="1392629"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392630" lims:id="1392630">Other words and expressions</MarginalNote><Label>(2)</Label><Text>Unless the context otherwise requires, other words and expressions used in this Order have the meanings assigned to them by the Regulations or the <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2019-124">Fees in Respect of Drugs and Medical Devices Order</XRefExternal>, as the case may be.</Text></Subsection></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392631" lims:id="1392631" level="1"><TitleText>Remission</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:lastAmendedDate="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392632" lims:id="1392632"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392633" lims:id="1392633">Establishment licence</MarginalNote><Label>2</Label><Subsection lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392634" lims:id="1392634"><Label>(1)</Label><Text>Subject to subsection (2), remission is granted to a person referred to in subsection 71(2) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2019-124">Fees in Respect of Drugs and Medical Devices Order</XRefExternal> of the amount of the fee that is paid or payable under subsection 71(1) of that Order — or, if applicable, that amount adjusted to account for the remission set out in subsection 6(1) or section 74 of that Order — and any interest on it, for the examination of one of the following applications:</Text><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392635" lims:id="1392635"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>an application for an establishment licence that is submitted under section 45 of the Regulations; or</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392636" lims:id="1392636"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>an application for the annual review of an establishment licence that is submitted under section 46.1 of the Regulations.</Text></Paragraph></Subsection><Subsection lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392637" lims:id="1392637"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392638" lims:id="1392638">Conditions</MarginalNote><Label>(2)</Label><Text>The remission is granted if the following conditions are met:</Text><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392639" lims:id="1392639"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>the application was submitted to the Minister on or after April 1, 2020;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392640" lims:id="1392640"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>the Minister completed the examination of the application on or before December 31, 2021;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392641" lims:id="1392641"><Label>(c)</Label><Text>the amount of the fee that is payable for the examination of the application was not paid to the Minister before the completion of the examination; and</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392642" lims:id="1392642"><Label>(d)</Label><Text>the Minister issued the establishment licence or completed the annual review of the establishment licence, but cancelled it on or before January 31, 2022.</Text></Paragraph></Subsection></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392643" lims:id="1392643" level="1"><TitleText>Coming into Force</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:lastAmendedDate="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392644" lims:id="1392644" type="CIFnobold"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2023-02-28" lims:enacted-date="2023-02-28" lims:fid="1392645" lims:id="1392645">Registration</MarginalNote><Label>3</Label><Text>This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.</Text></Section></Body></Regulation>