SS · Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act
Part 3 — Regulations and Bylaws
19 Council regulations
(a) respecting the establishment of categories of and conditio ns
respecting the enrolment of engineers-in-training,
geoscientists-in-training, examination candidates and
students;
(b) respecting the academic qua lifications of and experience
requirements for applicants for registration as professional
engineers or geoscientists;
(c) governing the evaluation by the Council, the Board of
Examiners, the Practice Review Board, the 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 the practice of engineering or
geoscience and the examination of those applicants with
respect to those qualifications or requirements;
(d) respecting the eligibility of applicants generally for
registration to engage in the practice of engineering or
geoscience;
(e) respecting the powers, du ties and functions of the Practice
Review Board, including but not limited to the referral of
matters by that Board to the Council or the Investigative
Committee and appeals from decisions of that Board;
(f) respecting the appointmen t of members of the Appeal
Board, other than the public member;
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(g) prescribing the number of members that constitutes a
quorum of the Council, the Investigative Committee, the
Appeal Board, the Practice Review Board, the Board of
Examiners or the Discipline Committee;
(h) governing the establishment of boards or committees of
professional members and respecting the delegation of
powers of the Council to those boards or committees or the
Practice Review Board;
(i) prescribing technical standards for the practice of the
profession;
(j) establishing and providing for the publication of a code o f
ethics respecting the practice of the profession, the
maintenance of the dignity and honour of the profession and
the protection of the public interest;
(k) governing the names under which professional members,
licensees, permit holders and certificate holders may engage
in the practice of the profession;
(l) governing, subject to this Act, the operation and proceedings
of the Appeal Board, the Board of Examiners and the
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 procedures of the Discipline Committee, of
the Practice Review Board, of the Investigative Committee
and of the Appeal Board in matters relating to the conduct
or practice of professional members, licensees, permit
holders or certificate holders, whether or not a complaint has
been made;
(n) respecting the establishment by the Council of a compulsor y
continuing education program for professional members and
licensees;
(o) governing the publication of a notice of the suspension or
cancellation of the registration of a professional member,
licensee, permit holder or certificate holder in a form and
manner prescribed by the Council;
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(p) respecting committees of in quiry for reinstatement under