<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2024-05-31" lims:lastAmendedDate="2024-05-31" lims:current-date="2024-06-11" lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455816" lims:id="1455816" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455817" lims:id="1455817"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2024-116</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2024</YYYY><MM>05</MM><DD>31</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2024</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>12</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455818" lims:id="1455818"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-4.2">PAY EQUITY ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455819" lims:id="1455819">Order Grouping Ministers’ Offices for the Purpose of a Pay Equity Plan</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2024-627</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2024</YYYY><MM>05</MM><DD>31</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455820" lims:id="1455820"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455821" lims:id="1455821" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes"><Text>Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Labour, makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2024-116">Order Grouping Ministers’ Offices for the Purpose of a Pay Equity Plan</XRefExternal> under subsection 173(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-4.2">Pay Equity Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5191_hq_1688151422">a</FootnoteRef>.</Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5191_hq_1688151422" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2018, c. 27, s. 416</Text></Footnote></Provision></Order><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455822" lims:id="1455822"><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:lastAmendedDate="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455823" lims:id="1455823"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455824" lims:id="1455824">Grouping of ministers’ offices</MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>All ministers’ offices are grouped for the purpose of establishing and updating a single pay equity plan.</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:lastAmendedDate="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455825" lims:id="1455825" type="CIFnobold"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2024-05-31" lims:enacted-date="2024-05-31" lims:fid="1455826" lims:id="1455826">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>