<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2021-05-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2021-05-14" lims:current-date="2021-05-19" lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293093" lims:id="1293093" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SI" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293094" lims:id="1293094"><InstrumentNumber>SI/2021-20</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2021</YYYY><MM>5</MM><DD>26</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2021</YYYY><MM>5</MM><DD>20</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293095" lims:id="1293095"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="F-11">FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293096" lims:id="1293096">Certain Fees in Respect of the Issuance of Passports (2017 British Columbia Forest Fires) Remission Order</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2021-396</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2021</YYYY><MM>5</MM><DD>14</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293097" lims:id="1293097"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293098" lims:id="1293098" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes"><Text>His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of Canada in Council, considering that it is in the public interest to do so, on the recommendation of the Treasury Board, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, pursuant to subsection 23(2.1)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-2643-E_hq_16590">a</FootnoteRef> of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="F-11">Financial Administration Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-2643-E_hq_16589">b</FootnoteRef>, makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SI-2021-20">Certain Fees in Respect of the Issuance of Passports (2017 British Columbia Forest Fires) Remission Order</XRefExternal>.</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-2643-E_hq_16590" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 1991, c. 24, s. 7(2)</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-2643-E_hq_16589" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>R.S., c. F-11</Text></Footnote></Provision></Order><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293099" lims:id="1293099"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293100" lims:id="1293100"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293101" lims:id="1293101">Definition of <DefinitionRef>passport</DefinitionRef></MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>In this Order, <DefinitionRef>passport</DefinitionRef> has the same meaning as in section 2 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SI-81-86">Canadian Passport Order</XRefExternal>.</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293102" lims:id="1293102"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293103" lims:id="1293103">Remission</MarginalNote><Label>2</Label><Subsection lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293104" lims:id="1293104"><Label>(1)</Label><Text>Remission is granted to any person who meets the conditions set out in subsection (2) of fees paid or payable under paragraphs 7(a) to (c) and item 14 of the schedule to the <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2012-253">Passport and Other Travel Document Services Fees Regulations</XRefExternal> or under section 4 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-95-538">Consular Services Fees Regulations</XRefExternal>.</Text></Subsection><Subsection lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293105" lims:id="1293105"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293106" lims:id="1293106">Conditions</MarginalNote><Label>(2)</Label><Text>The conditions are the following:</Text><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293107" lims:id="1293107"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>at some time during the period beginning on July 7 and ending on September 15, 2017, the person was in, or had their residence in, an area affected by a forest fire originating in British Columbia;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293108" lims:id="1293108"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>a passport that was issued to that person was, while it was valid, lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible as a result of the forest fire referred to in paragraph (a);</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293109" lims:id="1293109"><Label>(c)</Label><Text>during the period beginning on July 7, 2017, and ending on January 6, 2018, that person, or a person acting on their behalf, made an application for a passport with the same expiry date as the passport referred to in paragraph (b), in accordance with the <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SI-81-86">Canadian Passport Order</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293110" lims:id="1293110"><Label>(d)</Label><Text>that person, or the person acting on their behalf, included with the application for a passport a declaration made by that person or the person acting on their behalf that states that the passport was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible as a result of the forest fire referred to in paragraph (a) and</Text><Subparagraph lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293111" lims:id="1293111"><Label>(i)</Label><Text>proof that, at the time that the passport was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible, that person was a resident of an area referred to in paragraph (a), or</Text></Subparagraph><Subparagraph lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293112" lims:id="1293112"><Label>(ii)</Label><Text>a declaration made by that person or the person acting on their behalf that states that, at the time that the passport was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible, that person was in the area referred to in paragraph (a); and</Text></Subparagraph></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2021-05-14" lims:enacted-date="2021-05-14" lims:fid="1293113" lims:id="1293113"><Label>(e)</Label><Text>the fees in question have not been remitted under section 11 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2012-253">Passport and Other Travel Document Services Fees Regulations</XRefExternal>.</Text></Paragraph></Subsection></Section></Body></Regulation>