Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act s. 88.6

Part 5 — as if the recommendation were a written complaint. (8) After each inquiry under this section, the Joint Practice Review appropriate in connection with the matter inquired into, with reasons for the recommendations. (9) The Joint Practice Review

(1) If after 2 meetings at which a matter has been discussed
the JPT Regulations Committee has not resolved the matter, the
Committee may refer the matter to the Joint Councils Committee in
accordance with rules established by agreement of the Council and
ASET Council.
(2) On receipt of a reference, the Joint Councils Committee may
do either or both of the following:
(a) refer the matter, or any aspect of it, back to the JPT
Regulations Committee with suggestions or directions about
how to resolve it;
(b) resolve the matter, or any aspect of it.
(3) If the Joint Councils Committee fully resolves the matter, the
JPT Regulations Committee shall, if required, implement the
resolution of the Joint Councils Committee.
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(4) If the Joint Councils Committee does not fully resolve the
matter and does not refer the matter back to the JPT Regulations
Committee under subsection (2), the Joint Councils Committee
may, or if 120 days has passed from the date of receipt of the
reference from the JPT Regulations Committee, the Joint Councils
Committee shall, refer the matter, or any aspect of it that remains
unresolved, to arbitration under the Arbitration Act.
(5) The Joint Councils Committee may extend the 120-day period
if it considers an extension warranted.
(6) The Arbitration Act applies to an arbitration under this section
with the following change, that the arbitration shall be heard and
decided by an arbitration tribunal composed of 3 persons,
appointed as follows:
(a) one person shall be appointed by the Council;
(b) one person shall be a ppointed by ASET Council;
(c) one person shall be appointe d as chair of the arbitration
tribunal by the Minister.
(7) In addition to the authority of the arbitration tribunal under the
Arbitration Act, the arbitration tribunal may, as the circumstances
require, do either or both of the following:
(a) make a decision binding o n the Council, ASET Council and
the JPT Regulations Committee;
(b) make a new regulation or amend a regulation respecting
professional technologists, and for that purpose the
arbitration tribunal has the same authority to make or amend
regulations as the JPT Regulations Committee has under
section 88.5.
(8) A regulation or amendment made by the arbitration tribunal
under subsection (7) does not come into force unless it is approved
by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
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88.6 Resolving disputes