RTA · Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act
Part 1 — Scope of Practice
2 Exclusive scope of the practice of engineering
corporation, partnership or other entity, except a professional
engineer, a licensee so authorized in the licensee's licence, a permit
holder so authorized in its permit or a certificate holder so
authorized in the certificate holder's certificate, shall engage in the
practice of engineering.
(2) No individual, corporation, partnership or other entity, shall
engage in both the practice of engineering and the practice of
architecture as defined in the Architects Act, or hold out that it is
entitled to engage in both the practice of engineering and the
practice of architecture unless it holds a certificate of authorization
under this Act or the Architects Act permitting it to do so.
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(3) A professional engineer, licensee, permit holder or joint firm
may engage in the practice of surveying other than land surveying
as defined in the Land Surveyors Act.
(4) 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
process, system, work, structure or building in the capacity
of contractor, superintendent, foreman or inspector or in any
similar capacity, when the process, system, work, structure
or building has been designed by and the execution or
supervision is being carried out under the supervision and
control of a professional engineer or licensee;
(b) a person engaged in the practice of engineering as an
engineer-in-training or engineering technologist in the
course of being employed or engaged and supervised and
controlled by a professional engineer, licensee, permit
holder or certificate holder;
(c) repealed 2007 c13 s4;
(d) a person who in accordance with an Act or regulation in
respect of mines, minerals, pipelines, boilers and pressure
vessels, building codes or safety codes for buildings is
engaged in any undertaking or activity required under or
pursuant to that Act or the regulations under that Act;
(e) a person who, on the person's own property and for the
person's sole use or the use of the person's domestic
establishment, carries out any work that does not involve the
safety of the public;
(f) a member of the Canadian F orces while actually employed
on duty with the Forces;
(g) a person engaged or employed by a university whose
practice of the profession consists exclusively of teaching
engineering at the university.
(5) A restricted practitioner is not authorized by the operation of
subsection (1) to engage in the practice of engineering beyond the
scope of the practice that is specified in the register.
(6) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person engages
in
(a) planning, designing or givi ng advice on the design of or on
the erection, construction or alteration of or addition to,
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(b) preparing plans, drawings, detail drawings, specifications or
graphic representations for the design of or for the erection,
construction or alteration of or addition to, or
(c) inspecting work or assessing the performance of work under
a contract for the erection, construction or alteration of or
addition to
a building set out in subsection (7).
(7) The buildings referred to in subsection (6) are the following:
(a) a building, 3 storeys or less in height, for assembly
occupancy or institutional occupancy that,
(i) in the case of a single sto rey building, has a gross area of
300 square metres or less,
(ii) in the case of a 2 storey building, has a gross area of 150
square metres or less on each floor, or
(iii) in the case of a 3 storey building, has a gross area of 100
square metres or less on each floor;
(b) a building for residential occupancy that
(i) is a single family dwelling, or
(ii) is a multiple family dwe lling, containing 4 dwelling
units or less;
(c) a building, 3 storeys or less in height, for residential
occupancy as a hotel, motel or similar use that,
(i) in the case of a single sto rey building, has a gross area of
400 square metres or less,
(ii) in the case of a 2 storey building, has a gross area of 200
square metres or less on each floor, or
(iii) in the case of a 3 storey building, has a gross area of 130
square metres or less on each floor;
(d) a building, 3 storeys or less in height, for warehouse,
business and personal services occupancy, for mercantile
occupancy or for industrial occupancy that,
(i) in the case of a single sto rey building, has a gross area of
500 square metres or less,
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(ii) in the case of a 2 storey building, has a gross area of 250
square metres or less on each floor, or
(iii) in the case of a 3 storey building, has a gross area of 165
square metres or less on each floor;
(e) a building that is a farm building not for public use;
(f) a relocatable industrial camp building.
RSA 2000 cE-11 s2;2007 c13 s4