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Part 5 — ; (q) - (w) repealed 2007 c13 s11; (x) establishing classes or cat egories of professional engineers or geoscientists and licensees or permit holders and prescribing the restrictions of practice and the privileges and obligations of the classes o
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(a) for the government of the Association and the management
and conduct of its affairs;
(b) determining the location of the head office of the
Association;
(c) respecting the calling of a nd conduct of meetings of the
Association and the Council;
(d) respecting the nomination, election, number and term of
office of Council members and officers of the Association
and the appointment of individuals as members of the
Council by virtue of their office, the Discipline Committee,
the Practice Review Board, the Appeal Board, the Board of
Examiners and any other committee established by the
Council and prescribing their powers, duties and functions;
(e) prescribing those areas of the professions of engineering and
geoscience from which members of the Board of Examiners
shall be appointed by the Council;
(f) respecting the appointment, functions, duties and powers of
a Chief Executive Officer of the Association;
(g) respecting the establishment of districts and branches of the
Association and their operation;
(h) providing for the division of Alberta into electoral distr icts
and prescribing the number of Council members to be
elected from each district;
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(i) providing for the appointment of a Deputy Registrar who
has all of the powers and can perform all of the duties of the
Registrar under this Act, the regulations and the bylaws
when the Registrar is absent, or unable to act or when there
is a vacancy in the office of Registrar;
(j) establishing classes or categories of membership in the
Association in addition to professional engineers and
professional geoscientists and prescribing the rights,
privileges and obligations of the classes or categories of
membership so established;
(k) providing for the appointment of acting members of the
Council and procedures for the election or appointment of
professional members to fill vacancies on the Council;
(l) prescribing the number of professional members that
constitutes a quorum at meetings of the Association;
(m) governing the establishment, operation and proceedings of
committees, the appointment of members of committees, the
appointment of acting members and procedures for filling
vacancies on committees and the delegation of any powers
or duties of the Council under this Act, the regulations or the
bylaws to a committee established by the Council or under
this Act;
(n) prescribing fees and expenses payable to members of the
Association for attending to the business of the Association;
(o) respecting the establishment and payment of sums of money
for scholarships, fellowships and any other educational
incentive or benefit program that the Council considers
appropriate;
(p) governing the information to be engraved on stamps and
seals issued to professional members, licensees and
restricted practitioners;
(q) respecting permit numbers issued to permit holders;
(r) respecting the fixing of f ees, dues and levies payable to the
Association;
(s) respecting the costs payable by any person on the
conclusion of a hearing or review by the Practice Review
Board or under Part 5;
(t) respecting the establishmen t, content and maintenance of
registers of professional members, licensees, permit holders
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and certificate holders and of records of other classes or
categories of membership to be kept by the Registrar;
(u) respecting the removal from the registers and records of a ny
memorandum or entry made in them under this Act or the
bylaws;
(v) requiring professional memb ers, licensees, permit holders
and certificate holders to inform the Registrar in writing of
their current mailing addresses and of any change of address
forthwith after the change occurs;
(w) prescribing the form of a certificate of registration, a
licence, a permit, a certificate of authorization and an annual
certificate;
(x) respecting the expiry of annual certificates, annual licences,
permits and other authorizations.
(2) The Council may make bylaws respecting the holding of mail
votes or votes conducted by electronic, telecommunication or other
appropriate means on any matter relating to the Association, but a
bylaw under this subsection does not come into force unless it is
approved by a majority of professional members of the Association
present and voting at a general meeting.
(3) A bylaw under subsection (1) does not come into force unless
it is approved by a majority of the professional members
(a) present and voting at a general meeting, or
(b) voting by a mail vote or vote conducted by electronic,
telecommunication or other appropriate means conducted in
accordance with the bylaws.
(4) The Regulations Act does not apply to bylaws of the
Association made under this section.
RSA 2000 cE-11 s20;2007 c13 s12;2011 c3 s10