RTA · Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act
Part 2 — Association
15 Practice Review Board
Review Board consisting of not less than 5 members as follows:
(a) the Council shall appoint not less than 4 professional
members who have a combination of knowledge and
experience suitable for determining the academic
qualifications and experience necessary for a person to
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continue to engage in the practice of the profession of
engineering or geoscience;
(b) the Minister shall appoin t one member of the public
nominated by the Council.
(2) If the Council fails, within a reasonable period of time after
being requested to do so by the Minister, to make a nomination for
the purposes of subsection (1)(b), the Minister may appoint a
member of the public to the Practice Review Board without the
Council's nomination.
(3) The Minister may pay to the member of the Board appointed
under subsection (1)(b) travelling and living expenses incurred by
that member for the member's attendance at a hearing of the Board
while away from the member's usual place of residence and fees in
an amount prescribed by the Minister.
(4) The Minister may, after consultation with the Council, revoke
the appointment under subsection (1)(b) of a member of the public.
(5) The powers, duties and operations of the Board under this Act,
the regulations and the bylaws are not affected by
(a) the fact that no member of the public is appointed as a
member of the Board pursuant to subsection (1)(b),
(b) the revocation under subsection (4) of the appointment of a
member of the public, or
(c) the resignation as a member of the Board of a member of the
public.
(6) The failure of a member of the public appointed under
subsection (1)(b) to attend a meeting of the Board shall not be
construed to affect or restrict the Board from exercising at that
meeting any powers or performing any duties under this Act, the
regulations or the bylaws.
RSA 2000 cE-11 s15;2001 c10 s3;2011 c3 s32