THE EGGP ACT

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The engineering, Geological and
Geophysical professions act

Being Chapter E-11.1
Revised Statues ofAlberta, 2000
Printed April 2003

PART 3

REGULATIONS AND BYLAWS

Regulations

19(1) The Council may make regulations

(a) respecting the establishment of categories of and conditions respecting the enrolment of engineers-in-training, geologists-in-training, geophysicists-in-training, examination candidates and students;
(b) respecting the academic qualifications of and experience requirements for applicants for registration as professional engineers, geologists or geophysicists;
(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, geology or geophysics 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, geology or geophysics;
(e) respecting the powers, duties 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 appointment of members of the Appeal Board, other than the public member;
(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 of 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 compulsory 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;
(p) respecting committees of inquiry for reinstatement under Part 5;
(q) for the purposes of sections 2(4), 5(2) and 7(2), designating a class of persons as engineering, geological or geophysical technologists;
(r) respecting the titles that may be used by engineering, geological or geophysical technologists and the circumstances and the conditions under which the titles may be used and prohibiting any other person from using those titles or from representing or holding out, expressly or by implication, that the person is entitled to use the titles;
(s) respecting the academic and other qualifications and the experience required of a technologist before the technologist becomes entitled to use a title referred to in clause;
(t) respecting the establishment of a register of technologists entitled to use a title referred to in clause;
(u) governing the establishment of boards or committees with respect to engineering, geological or geophysical technologists and respecting the powers, duties and operations of those boards or committees;
(v) respecting the circumstances under which a board or committee established under clause (u) may suspend or terminate the right of a technologist to use a title referred to in clause;
(w) respecting the stamp or seal issued to an engineering, geological or geophysical technologist and the circumstances under which it is to be surrendered by the technologist;
(x) establishing classes or categories of professional engineers, geologists or geophysicists and licensees or permit holders and prescribing the restrictions of practice and the privileges and obligations of the classes or categories so established;
(y) respecting the academic and other qualifications and the experience required of the classes or categories established under clause (x);
(z) respecting the use of stamps, seals and permit numbers;

(aa) governing the eligibility for registration of persons, firms, partnerships and other entities as permit holders or certificate holders;
(bb) governing the operation of permit holders or certificate holders;
(cc) governing the publication of information with respect to the profession, including but not limited to the publication of surveys of fees;
(dd) respecting registration, licensing, the issuing of permits and certificates, disciplinary matters and the practice of engineering, geology and geophysics generally;
(ee) respecting the service on any person of a document or notice required to be served under this Act.

(2) The Council shall consult with the Alberta Society of Engineering Technologists before making a regulation under subsection (1)(q) to (w).
(3) A regulation under subsection (1) does not come into force unless it has been approved by

(a) a majority of the professional members

(i) present and voting at a general meeting, or
(ii) voting in a mail vote conducted in accordance with the bylaws,
and

(b) the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

1981 cE-11.1 s18;1984 c17 s9;1995 c14 s9;
1998 c14 s6;1999 c8 s2

Bylaws

20(1) The Council may make bylaws

(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 and 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, geology and geophysics from which members of the Board of Examiners shall be appointed by the Council;
(f) respecting the appointment, functions, duties and powers of an Executive Director 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 districts and prescribing the number of Council members to be elected from each district;
(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, professional geologists and professional geophysicists 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 fees, 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 establishment, content and maintenance of registers of professional members, licensees, permit holders 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 any memorandum or entry made in them under this Act or the bylaws;
(v) requiring professional members, 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.

(2) The Council may make bylaws respecting the holding of mail votes 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 conducted in accordance with the bylaws.

(4) The Regulations Act does not apply to bylaws of the Association made under this section.
1981 cE-11.1 s19;1995 c14 s10;1998 c14 s7