<?xml version="1.0"?><Regulation lims:pit-date="2025-02-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-02-14" lims:current-date="2025-02-17" lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511516" lims:id="1511516" gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511517" lims:id="1511517"><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2025-25</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>02</MM><DD>14</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>2</MM><DD>18</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><EnablingAuthority lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511518" lims:id="1511518"><XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-33.01">PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511519" lims:id="1511519">Eligibility of Certain Former Members of the Canadian Forces Regulations</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2025-95</OrderNumber><Date><YYYY>2025</YYYY><MM>02</MM><DD>14</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511520" lims:id="1511520"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511521" lims:id="1511521" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Public Service Commission and the President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada, makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2025-25">Eligibility of Certain Former Members of the Canadian Forces Regulations</XRefExternal> under section 21 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-33.01">Public Service Employment Act</XRefExternal>.<FootnoteRef idref="fn_81000-2-5565_hq_1721922655">a</FootnoteRef></Text><Footnote id="fn_81000-2-5565_hq_1721922655" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2003, c. 22, ss. 12, 13</Text></Footnote></Provision></Order><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511522" lims:id="1511522"><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511523" lims:id="1511523" level="1"><TitleText>Definitions</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511524" lims:id="1511524"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511525" lims:id="1511525">Definitions</MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>The following definitions apply in these Regulations.</Text><Definition lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511526" lims:id="1511526"><Text><DefinedTermEn>Act</DefinedTermEn> means the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-33.01">Public Service Employment Act</XRefExternal>. (<DefinedTermFr>Loi</DefinedTermFr>)</Text></Definition><Definition lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511527" lims:id="1511527"><Text><DefinedTermEn>eligible person</DefinedTermEn> means a person who</Text><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511528" lims:id="1511528"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>is not employed in the public service for an indeterminate period;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511529" lims:id="1511529"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>during the period beginning on November 13, 2020 and ending on January 18, 2024,</Text><Subparagraph lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511530" lims:id="1511530"><Label>(i)</Label><Text>completed their third year of service in the Canadian Forces, and</Text></Subparagraph><Subparagraph lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511531" lims:id="1511531"><Label>(ii)</Label><Text>was honourably released within the meaning of regulations made under the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="N-5">National Defence Act</XRefExternal>; and</Text></Subparagraph></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511532" lims:id="1511532"><Label>(c)</Label><Text>created an account in the Public Service Resourcing System on or before January 18, 2024. (<DefinedTermFr>personne admissible</DefinedTermFr>)</Text></Paragraph></Definition></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511533" lims:id="1511533" level="1"><TitleText>General</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511534" lims:id="1511534"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511535" lims:id="1511535">Entitlement</MarginalNote><Label>2</Label><Text>Until April 1, 2029, an eligible person may</Text><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511536" lims:id="1511536"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>participate in an advertised internal appointment process as if they were employed in the public service; and</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511537" lims:id="1511537"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>make a complaint under section 77 of the Act.</Text></Paragraph></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511538" lims:id="1511538"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511539" lims:id="1511539">Criterion in relation to designated groups</MarginalNote><Label>3</Label><Text>Until April 1, 2029, if a criterion in relation to belonging to any of the <DefinitionRef>designated groups</DefinitionRef>, as defined in section 3 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="E-5.401">Employment Equity Act</XRefExternal>, is established under section 34 of the Act in respect of an advertised internal appointment process, the eligible person must meet that criterion.</Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511540" lims:id="1511540" level="1"><TitleText>Coming into Force</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:lastAmendedDate="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511541" lims:id="1511541" type="CIFnobold"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2025-02-14" lims:enacted-date="2025-02-14" lims:fid="1511542" lims:id="1511542">Registration</MarginalNote><Label>4</Label><Text>These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.</Text></Section></Body></Regulation>