RTA · Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act
Part 8 — ASET, Joint Boards and Committees,
88.1 Powers of the Joint Practice Review Board
(a) shall, on its own initiative or at the request of either the
Council or ASET Council, inquire into
(i) the assessment of existing and the development of new
educational standards and experience requirements that
are to be conditions precedent to obtaining and
continuing registration under this Act as a professional
technologist,
(ii) the evaluation of desirable standards of competence of
professional technologists generally,
(iii) the practice of profession al technologists generally, and
(iv) any other matter that the Council or ASET Council from
time to time considers necessary or appropriate in
connection with the exercise of its powers and the
performance of its duties in relation to competence in the
practice of professional technologists under this Act and
the professional technologist regulations,
a n d
(b) may conduct a review of t he practice of a professional
technologist in accordance with this Act and the
professional technologist regulations.
(2) The Joint Practice Review Board shall report to and advise the
Council and ASET Council with respect to any matter dealt with by
it pursuant to subsection (1).
(3) A person requested to appear at an inquiry under this section
by the Joint Practice Review Board is entitled to be represented by
counsel.
(4) The Joint Practice Review Board may, after a review under this
section with respect to a professional technologist, make any order
that the Joint Discipline Committee may make under section 63 or
64.
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(5) The provisions of Part 5 with respect to an investigation by the
Joint Investigative Committee apply to a review of an individual
professional technologist by the Joint Practice Review Board.
(6) The Joint Practice Review Board may at any time during an
inquiry or review under this section recommend to the Joint
Investigative Committee that the inquiry or review be conducted by
the Joint Investigative Committee pursuant to Part 5.
(7) On receiving a recommendation under subsection (6), the Joint