<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2025-03-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-03-14" lims:current-date="2025-03-17" lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1516789" lims:id="1516789" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SI" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1516790" lims:id="1516790"><InstrumentNumber>SI/2025-43</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>26</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>18</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1516791" lims:id="1516791"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-16.81">POVERTY REDUCTION ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1516792" lims:id="1516792">Order Designating the Minister of Employment and Social Development To Be the Minister for the Purposes of the Poverty Reduction Act</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2025-423</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>3</MM><DD>14</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1516793" lims:id="1516793"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1516794" lims:id="1516794" 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, under section 4 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-16.81">Poverty Reduction Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="nbp_81000-3-2846_hq_1741731620">a</FootnoteRef>,</Text><Footnote id="nbp_81000-3-2846_hq_1741731620" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2019, c. 29, s. 315</Text></Footnote><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1516795" lims:id="1516795" format-ref="indent-1-1"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>repeals Order in Council P.C. 2020-123 of March 9, 2020<FootnoteRef idref="nbp_81000-3-2846_hq_1741731646">b</FootnoteRef>; and</Text><Footnote id="nbp_81000-3-2846_hq_1741731646" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>SI/2020-28</Text></Footnote></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-03-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-03-14" lims:fid="1516796" lims:id="1516796" format-ref="indent-1-1"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>designates the Minister of Employment and Social Development, a member of the King’s Privy Council for Canada, to be the Minister for the purposes of that Act.</Text></Provision></Provision></Order></Regulation>