CPA · Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act
Part 1 — Scope of Practice
5 Exclusive scope of the practice of geoscience
partnership or other entity, except a professional geoscientist, a
licensee so authorized in the licensee's licence or a permit holder
so authorized in the permit, shall engage in the practice of
geoscience.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the following:
(a) a person engaged in the execution or supervision of the
construction, maintenance, operation or inspection of any
geoscientific investigation, process, system, study, work or
instrumentation in the capacity of contractor,
superintendent, foreman or inspector, or in any similar
capacity, when the investigation, process, system, study,
work or instrumentation has been designed by, and the
execution or supervision is being carried out under the
supervision and control of, a professional geoscientist or
licensee;
(b) a person engaged in the p ractice of geoscience as a
geoscientist-in-training or geoscience technologist in the
course of being employed or engaged and supervised and
controlled by a professional geoscientist, licensee or permit
holder;
(c) a person who, as a prospector, is engaged in any activitie s
that are normally associated with the business of
prospecting;
(d) a member of the Canadian F orces while actually employed
on duty with the Forces;
(e) a person engaged in conducting a routine geoscientific
survey or preparing a routine geoscientific report where the
specifications and standards for the survey or report have
been prepared or approved by a professional geoscientist or
licensee;
RSA 2000
ENGINEERING AND GEOSCIENCE
(f) a person engaged in the routine reduction or plotting of
geoscientific data under the supervision and control of a
professional geoscientist or licensee;
(g) a person engaged in the routine operation, maintenance or
repair of geoscience equipment or facilities;
(h) a person engaged or employed by a university whose
practice of the profession consists exclusively of teaching
geoscience at the university.
RSA 2000 cE-11 s5;2007 c13 s6;2011 c3 s6