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2011</font></div>
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D.C.&#160;&#160;20549</font></div>
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S-8</font></div>
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STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></div>
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ENERGY CORP.</font></div>
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name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></div>
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      or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)</font></div>
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      Employer Identification No.)</font></div>
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    <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Suite
2800, 520 - 3<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 70%; VERTICAL-ALIGN: text-top">rd.</font>
Avenue S.W.</font></div>
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Alberta, Canada T2P 0R3</font></div>
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of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)</font></div>
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Energy Corp. Share Award Incentive Plan</font></div>
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title of the plan)</font></div>
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Energy USA Ltd.</font></div>
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17th St., Suite 1600 S.</font></div>
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CO 80202</font></div>
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and address of agent for service)</font></div>
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number, including area code, of agent for service)</font></div>
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      Energy Ltd.</font></div>
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      Derek Aylesworth</font></div>
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      Financial Officer</font></div>
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      2800, 520 - 3<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 70%; VERTICAL-ALIGN: text-top">rd.</font>
      Avenue S.W.</font></div>
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      Alberta, Canada T2P 0R3</font></div>
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      587-952-3120</font></div>
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      587-952-3029</font></div>
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      Energy Ltd.</font></div>
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      J. Desrosiers, Esq.</font></div>
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      Counsel</font></div>
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      2800, 520 - 3<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 70%; VERTICAL-ALIGN: text-top">rd.</font>
      Avenue S.W.</font></div>
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      Alberta, Canada T2P 0R3</font></div>
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      587-952-3255</font></div>
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      587-952-3029</font></div>
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      P. Lander, Esq.</font></div>
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      Ledyard &amp; Milburn LLP</font></div>
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      Wall Street</font></div>
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      York, NY 10005</font></div>
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      212-238-8619</font></div>
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      212-732-3232</font></div>
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by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company.&#160;&#160;See definition of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated
filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
Act.</font></div>
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Accelerated filer <font style="DISPLAY: inline;" face="Wingdings">x</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Accelerated
filer <font style="DISPLAY: inline;" face="Wingdings 2, serif">&#163;</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Non-accelerated
filer <font style="DISPLAY: inline;" face="Wingdings 2, serif">&#163;</font>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Smaller
Reporting Company <font style="DISPLAY: inline;" face="Wingdings 2, serif">&#163;</font></font></div><br>
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OF REGISTRATION FEE</font></div>
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      of securities to be registered</font></div>
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      to be registered (1)</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Proposed
      maximum offering price per share (2)</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.9pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Proposed
      maximum aggregate offering price</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Amount
      of registration fee (3)</font></div>
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      Shares, no par value</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: -0.9pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1,000,000</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 17.1pt" align="center"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">$5,494</font></div>
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              <div><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(1)&#160;&#160;</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In
      addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as
      amended, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number
      of the Registrant's common shares, no par value (the "Common Shares") that
      may be offered or issued pursuant to the Registrant's Share Award
      Incentive Plan (the "Plan") by reason of stock splits, stock dividends or
      similar transactions.</font></div>
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              <div><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(2)&#160;&#160;</font></div>
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              <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Estimated
      solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance
      with Rule 457(h) and (c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
      based on the average of the high and low sales prices of trust units of
      Baytex Energy Trust as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on January
      4, 2011.&#160;&#160;On December 31, 2010, a court-approved statutory plan
      of arrangement was completed pursuant to which unitholders in Baytex
      Energy Trust exchanged each of their trust units for one newly issued
      Common Share of Baytex Energy Corp.</font></div>
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PROSPECTUS</font></div>
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documents containing the information specified in Part&#160;I of Form S-8 will
be sent to or given to participants in the Baytex Energy Corp. Share Award
Incentive Plan as specified by Rule&#160;428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").&#160;&#160;In accordance with the
instructions to Part&#160;I of Form S-8, such documents will not be filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") either as part of this
Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to
Rule&#160;424 under the Securities Act.&#160;&#160;These documents and the
documents incorporated by reference pursuant to Item&#160;3 of Part&#160;II of
this Registration Statement, taken together, constitute the prospectus as
required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.</font></div>
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Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the
following documents filed with the Commission pursuant to the Securities and
Exchange Act, as amended (the &#8220;Exchange Act&#8221;):</font></div>
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      Annual Report on Form 40-F/A of Baytex Energy Trust for the fiscal year
      ended December 31, 2009;</font></div>
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      other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
      Act, since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report
      incorporated by reference herein pursuant to (a) above;
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      description of the Registrant&#8217;s securities contained in the Registrant&#8217;s
      Form 8-A/A, filed with the Commission on January 3,
  2011.</font></div>
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addition, all documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date
hereof, and all Reports on Form 6-K submitted to the Commission subsequent to
the date hereof, to the extent that such Reports indicate that information
therein is incorporated by reference into the Registrant's Registration
Statements on Form S-8, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all
securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference
into this Registration Statement and to be a part of this Registration Statement
from the date of filing of such documents.</font></div>
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statement in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the purposes of this
Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any
other subsequently filed document which also is or deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.&#160;&#160;Any statement
so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or
superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.</font></div>
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Business Corporations Act (Alberta) (&#8220;ABCA&#8221;) provides that a corporation may, in
certain circumstances, indemnify a director or officer of the corporation, a
former director or officer of the corporation, a person who acts or acted at the
corporation&#8217;s request as a director or officer of a body corporate of which the
corporation is or was a shareholder or creditor and the heirs and legal
representatives of any such persons (collectively, &#8220;Indemnified Persons&#8221;)
against all costs, charges and expenses reasonably incurred by any such
Indemnified Person in respect of any civil, criminal or administrative action or
proceeding to which he or she is made a party by reason of being or having been
a director or officer of the corporation or other body corporate, if (a)&#160;he
or she acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the
corporation, and (b)&#160;in the case of a criminal or administrative action or
proceeding that is enforced by a monetary penalty, he or she had reasonable
grounds for believing that his conduct was lawful. A director or officer is
entitled to indemnification as a matter of right if he or she was substantially
successful on the merits, fulfilled the conditions set forth above, and is
fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity.</font></div>
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    <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The
by-laws of the Registrant provide that it shall indemnify Indemnified Persons of
such Registrant to the maximum extent permitted by the ABCA.</font></div>
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    <div style="TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors and officers and persons controlling the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been advised that, in
the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and is, therefore,
unenforceable.</font></div>
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Registrant carries certain insurance coverage, in respect of potential claims
against its respective directors and officers and in respect of losses of which
the Registrant may be required or permitted by law to indemnify its directors
and officers.</font></div>
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(1)</font></div>
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accountants</font></div>
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      amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
      fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration
      statement.&#160;&#160;Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or
      decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of
      securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any
      deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range
      may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission
      pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and
      price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering
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paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by
the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration
statement.</font></div>
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for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933,
each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline">bona fide</font> offering
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remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.</font></div>
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undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant&#8217;s
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&#8217;s annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; DISPLAY: inline">bona fide</font> offering
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be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is,
therefore, unenforceable.&#160;&#160;In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant and expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
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it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets the requirements for filing
on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Calgary, Alberta on
January&#160;6, 2011.</font></div>
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MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Anthony W. Marino and W. Derek Aylesworth and each of
them severally, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact, and agent each with power
to act with or without the other, and with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, to execute in the name of such person, in his capacity as a
director or officer of Baytex Energy Corp, any and all amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8 and all instruments necessary or incidental
in connection therewith, and to file the same with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said
attorneys-in-fact, or their substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue
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has been signed on January&#160;6, 2011, by the following persons in the
capacities indicated.</font></div>
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forms_8.htm
As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 6,
2011
Registration
No.
333-
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C.  20549
__________
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
_________
BAYTEX
ENERGY CORP.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Alberta
Not
      Applicable
(State
      or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S.
      Employer Identification No.)
Suite
2800, 520 - 3
rd.
Avenue S.W.
Calgary,
Alberta, Canada T2P 0R3
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Baytex
Energy Corp. Share Award Incentive Plan
(Full
title of the plan)
Baytex
Energy USA Ltd.
600
17th St., Suite 1600 S.
Denver,
CO 80202
(Name
and address of agent for service)
303-825-2777
(Telephone
number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies
to:
Baytex
      Energy Ltd.
W.
      Derek Aylesworth
Chief
      Financial Officer
Suite
      2800, 520 - 3
rd.
Avenue S.W.
Calgary,
      Alberta, Canada T2P 0R3
Tel:
      587-952-3120
Fax:
      587-952-3029
Baytex
      Energy Ltd.
Murray
      J. Desrosiers, Esq.
General
      Counsel
Suite
      2800, 520 - 3
rd.
Avenue S.W.
Calgary,
      Alberta, Canada T2P 0R3
Tel:
      587-952-3255
Fax:
      587-952-3029
Guy
      P. Lander, Esq.
Carter
      Ledyard & Milburn LLP
2
      Wall Street
New
      York, NY 10005
Tel:
      212-238-8619
Fax:
      212-732-3232
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company.  See definition of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated
filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
Act.
Large
Accelerated filer
x
Accelerated
filer
£
Non-accelerated
filer
£
Smaller
Reporting Company
£
CALCULATION
OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
      of securities to be registered
Amount
      to be registered (1)
Proposed
      maximum offering price per share (2)
Proposed
      maximum aggregate offering price
Amount
      of registration fee (3)
Common
      Shares, no par value
1,000,000
$47.32
$47,320,000
$5,494
(1)
In
      addition, pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as
      amended, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number
      of the Registrant's common shares, no par value (the "Common Shares") that
      may be offered or issued pursuant to the Registrant's Share Award
      Incentive Plan (the "Plan") by reason of stock splits, stock dividends or
      similar transactions.
(2)
Estimated
      solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance
      with Rule 457(h) and (c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
      based on the average of the high and low sales prices of trust units of
      Baytex Energy Trust as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on January
      4, 2011.  On December 31, 2010, a court-approved statutory plan
      of arrangement was completed pursuant to which unitholders in Baytex
      Energy Trust exchanged each of their trust units for one newly issued
      Common Share of Baytex Energy Corp.
(3)
Calculated
      pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, as
      follows: proposed maximum aggregate offering price multiplied by
      .0001161.
___________________________
This
Registration Statement shall become effective immediately upon filing as
provided in Rule 462 under the Securities Act of 1933.
2
PART
      I
INFORMATION
      REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a)
PROSPECTUS
The
documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will
be sent to or given to participants in the Baytex Energy Corp. Share Award
Incentive Plan as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").  In accordance with the
instructions to Part I of Form S-8, such documents will not be filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") either as part of this
Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to
Rule 424 under the Securities Act.  These documents and the
documents incorporated by reference pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of
this Registration Statement, taken together, constitute the prospectus as
required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
PART
II
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The
Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the
following documents filed with the Commission pursuant to the Securities and
Exchange Act, as amended (the "Exchange Act"):
(a)
The
      Annual Report on Form 40-F/A of Baytex Energy Trust for the fiscal year
      ended December 31, 2009;
(b)
All
      other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
      Act, since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report
      incorporated by reference herein pursuant to (a) above;
  and
(c)
The
      description of the Registrant's securities contained in the Registrant's
      Form 8-A/A, filed with the Commission on January 3,
  2011.
In
addition, all documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date
hereof, and all Reports on Form 6-K submitted to the Commission subsequent to
the date hereof, to the extent that such Reports indicate that information
therein is incorporated by reference into the Registrant's Registration
Statements on Form S-8, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all
securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference
into this Registration Statement and to be a part of this Registration Statement
from the date of filing of such documents.
Any
statement in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for the purposes of this
Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any
other subsequently filed document which also is or deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any statement
so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or
superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item
4.  Description of Securities.
Not
applicable.
Item
5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not
applicable.
3
Item 6.  Indemnification of
Directors and Officers.
The
Business Corporations Act (Alberta) ("ABCA") provides that a corporation may, in
certain circumstances, indemnify a director or officer of the corporation, a
former director or officer of the corporation, a person who acts or acted at the
corporation's request as a director or officer of a body corporate of which the
corporation is or was a shareholder or creditor and the heirs and legal
representatives of any such persons (collectively, "Indemnified Persons")
against all costs, charges and expenses reasonably incurred by any such
Indemnified Person in respect of any civil, criminal or administrative action or
proceeding to which he or she is made a party by reason of being or having been
a director or officer of the corporation or other body corporate, if (a) he
or she acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the
corporation, and (b) in the case of a criminal or administrative action or
proceeding that is enforced by a monetary penalty, he or she had reasonable
grounds for believing that his conduct was lawful. A director or officer is
entitled to indemnification as a matter of right if he or she was substantially
successful on the merits, fulfilled the conditions set forth above, and is
fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity.
The
by-laws of the Registrant provide that it shall indemnify Indemnified Persons of
such Registrant to the maximum extent permitted by the ABCA.
Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors and officers and persons controlling the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Registrant has been advised that, in
the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and is, therefore,
unenforceable.
The
Registrant carries certain insurance coverage, in respect of potential claims
against its respective directors and officers and in respect of losses of which
the Registrant may be required or permitted by law to indemnify its directors
and officers.
Item
7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not
applicable.
Item
8.  Exhibits.
4.1
Articles
      of Incorporation of the Registrant
(1)
4.2           Baytex
Energy Corp. Share Award Incentive Plan (2)
5.1
Opinion
      of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP as to the legality of the Common
      Shares being registered.
23.1         Consent
of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1)
23.2         Consent
of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered chartered
accountants
23.3         Consent
of Sproule Associates Limited, independent engineers
24.1         Power
of Attorney (included as part of this Registration Statement)
_____________________________
(1)
Filed
      as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Form 8-A/A, filed with the Commission
      on January 3, 2011, and incorporated herein by
  reference.
4
(2)
Filed
      as Exhibit 99.10 to the Registrant's Report on Form 6-K, filed with the
      Commission on November 9, 2010, and incorporated herein by
      reference.
Item
9.  Undertakings.
(a)             The
undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)             To
file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i)
to
      include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act
      of 1933;
(ii)
to
      reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective
      date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
      amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
      fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration
      statement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or
      decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of
      securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any
      deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range
      may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission
      pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and
      price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering
      price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the
      effective registration statement;
(iii)
to
      include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution
      not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material
      change to such information in the registration
  statement;
provided, however
, that
paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by
the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration
statement.
(2)             That,
for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933,
each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering
thereof.
(3)             To
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.
(b)             The
undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's
annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering
thereof.
(c)              Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may
be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is,
therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant and expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
5
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that
it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets the requirements for filing
on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Calgary, Alberta on
January 6, 2011.
BAYTEX
      ENERGY CORP.
By:
/s/
Anthony W.
  Marino
Name:
Anthony
      W. Marino
Title:
President
      and Chief Executive Officer
6
POWER
OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL
MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Anthony W. Marino and W. Derek Aylesworth and each of
them severally, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact, and agent each with power
to act with or without the other, and with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, to execute in the name of such person, in his capacity as a
director or officer of Baytex Energy Corp, any and all amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8 and all instruments necessary or incidental
in connection therewith, and to file the same with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said
attorneys-in-fact, or their substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement
has been signed on January 6, 2011, by the following persons in the
capacities indicated.
Signature
Title
/
s/Raymond T.
      Chan
Raymond
      T. Chan
Executive
      Chairman
/
s/Anthony W.
      Marino
Anthony
      W. Marino
President
      and Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive
      Officer)
/s/W. Derek Aylesworth
W.
      Derek Aylesworth
Chief
      Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting
    Officer)
/s/John A. Brussa
John
      A. Brussa
Director
/s/Edward Chwyl
Edward
      Chwyl
Director
/s/Naveen Dargan
Naveen
      Dargan
Director
/s/R.E.T. Goepel
R.E.T.
      Goepel
Director
/s/Gregory K. Melchin
Gregory
      K. Melchin
Director
/s/Dale O. Shwed
Dale
      O. Shwed
Director
7
AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE
Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 6(a) of the Securities Act, the undersigned
has signed this Registration Statement, in the capacity of the duly authorized
representative of the Registrant in the United States, on January 6,
2011.
BAYTEX
      ENERGY USA LTD.
By:
/s/Anthony
      W. Marino
Name:
Anthony
      W. Marino
Title:
President
      and Chief Executive Officer
8
INDEX
TO EXHIBITS
Item
Exhibit
4.1
Articles
      of Incorporation of the Registrant (1)
4.2
Baytex
      Energy Corp. Share Award Incentive Plan (2)
5.1
Opinion
      of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP as to the legality of the Common
      Shares being registered
23.1
Consent
      of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP (contained in Exhibit
      5.1)
23.2
Consent
      of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered chartered
      accountants.
23.3
Consent
      of Sproule Associates Limited, independent engineers.
24.1
Powers
      of Attorney (included on the signature pages to this Registration
      Statement).
_____________________________
(1)
Filed
      as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant's Form 8-A/A, filed with the Commission
      on January 3, 2011, and incorporated herein by
  reference.
(2)
Filed
      as Exhibit 99.10 to the Registrant's Report on Form 6-K, filed with the
      Commission on November 9, 2010, and incorporated herein by
      reference.