RTA · Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act
Part 8 — ASET, Joint Boards and Committees,
87.3 ASET regulations
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(a) respecting the establishmen t of categories of, and conditions
respecting the enrolment of, regulated members, regulated
members in training, examination candidates and students;
(b) respecting the academic qua lifications of and experience
requirements for applicants for registration as regulated
members;
(c) governing the evaluation by ASET Council, the ASET
Board of Examiners, the ASET Practice Review Board or
the ASET Appeal Board, or a committee established by any
of them, of the academic qualifications of and experience
requirements for applicants for registration to engage in
practice as regulated members and the examination of those
applicants with respect to those qualifications or
requirements;
(d) respecting generally the eligibility of applicants for
registration to engage in practice as regulated members;
(e) respecting the powers, du ties and functions of the ASET
Practice Review Board, including but not limited to the
referral of matters by that Board to ASET Council or the
ASET Investigative Committee and appeals from decisions
of that Board;
(f) respecting the appointment of members of the ASET Appeal
Board;
(g) prescribing the number of members that constitutes a
quorum of ASET Council, the ASET Investigative
Committee, the ASET Appeal Board, the ASET Practice
Review Board, the ASET Board of Examiners or the ASET
Discipline Committee;
(h) governing the establishment of boards or committees and
respecting the delegation of powers of ASET Council to
those boards or committees or to the ASET Practice Review
Board;
(i) prescribing technical standards of practice for regulated
members;
(j) establishing and providing for the publication of a code o f
ethics respecting the practice of regulated members and the
protection of the public interest;
(k) governing the names under which regulated members may
engage in practice;
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(l) governing, subject to this Act, the operation and proceedings
of the ASET Appeal Board, the ASET Board of Examiners
and the ASET Practice Review Board, the designation of
chair and vice-chair, the appointment of acting members and
the procedures for filling vacancies in the offices of chair
and vice-chair and in the membership of any of those
boards, and the appointment to any of those boards of
members by virtue of their office, and prescribing their
powers, duties and functions;
(m) respecting the procedur es of the ASET Discipline
Committee, of the ASET Practice Review Board, of the
ASET Investigative Committee and of the ASET Appeal
Board in matters relating to the conduct or practice of
regulated members, whether or not a complaint has been
made;
(n) respecting the establis hment by ASET Council of a
compulsory continuing education program for regulated
members;
(o) governing the publication of a notice of the suspension or
cancellation of the registration of a regulated member in a
form and manner prescribed by ASET Council;
(p) respecting committees of inquiry for reinstatement;
(q) respecting the titles that m ay be used by regulated members
and the circumstances and conditions under which the titles
may be used;
(r) establishing classes or categ ories of regulated members and
prescribing the restrictions of practice and the privileges and
obligations of the classes or categories so established;
(s) respecting the academic and other qualifications and the
experience required of the classes or categories established
in addition to regulated members;
(t) governing the eligibility of persons, firms, partnerships and
other entities for registration as ASET permit holders or
certificate holders under this Part;
(u) governing the operation of ASET permit holders or
certificate holders under this Part;
(v) governing the publication of information with respect to
ASET and ASET members;
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(w) respecting registration, licensing, the issuing of permits and
certificates, disciplinary matters and the practice of
regulated members generally;
(x) respecting the service on any person of a document or noti ce
required to be served under this Act;
(y) defining "regulated member" for the purposes of all or any
provision of this Act, ASET regulations and ASET bylaws.
(2) A regulation under subsection (1) may be made only by ASET
Council.
(3) A regulation must be approved in principle by a majority of the
ASET members
(a) present and voting at a s pecial meeting called for that
purpose,
(b) voting by a mail vote or a vote authorized by bylaw that i s
conducted by electronic, telecommunication or other
appropriate means, or
(c) at the annual g eneral meeting following ASET Council's
adoption of the regulation.
(4) ASET Council may change the text of a regulation that has
been approved in principle under subsection (3) if the change
(a) is consistent with the approval in principle, and
(b) is made before the regulation is submitted to the Lieutena nt
Governor in Council for approval.
(5) A regulation under this section does not come into force unless
it has been approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
2007 c13 s14