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Part 6
General
Use of stamps, seal, permit number
78(1) A professional member, licensee
or restricted practitioner shall, in accordance
with the regulations,
(a) sign documents or records, and
(b) stamp or seal documents or records.
(2) A permit holder shall affix its permit
number on documents or records in accordance
with the regulations.
1981 cE-11.1 s76;1984 c17 s28;1998 c14 s14
Exemption from municipal licence
79 No municipality has the power to require
(a) any professional member, licensee, permit
holder or certificate holder to obtain a licence
from the municipality to engage in the practice
of engineering, the practice of geology or
the practice of geophysics, or
(b) any member-in-training to obtain a licence
from the municipality for or in connection
with the performance of any acts or services
authorized by this Act to be performed by
a member-in-training.
1998 c36 s3
Liability to others
80(1) The relationship between a permit holder
or certificate holder engaged in the practice
of engineering, geology or geophysics and a
person receiving the professional services of
the permit holder or certificate holder is subject
to this Act, the regulations and any other law
applicable to the relationship between a professional
member and the professional member's client.
(2) The relationship of a professional
member or licensee to a permit holder, whether
as member, shareholder or employee of the permit
holder, does not affect, modify or diminish
the application of this Act, the regulations
and the bylaws
(a) to the professional member or licensee
personally as a professional member or licensee,
or
(b) to the relationship between the professional
member or licensee and the professional member's
or licensee's client.
1981 cE-11.1 s77;1984 c17 s29
Registrar's certificate
81(1) A certificate purporting to be
signed by the Registrar and stating that a named
person was or was not, on a specified day or
during a specified period,
(a) a professional member, licensee or certificate
holder, or
(b) an officer of the Association or a member
of the Council
shall be admitted in evidence as proof, in the
absence of evidence to the contrary, of the
facts stated in it without proof of the Registrar's
appointment or signature.
(2) A certificate purporting to be signed
by the Registrar and stating that a named corporation,
partnership or other association of persons
was or was not, on a specified day or during
a specified period, a permit holder or certificate
holder shall be admitted in evidence as proof,
in the absence of evidence to the contrary,
of the facts stated in it without proof of the
Registrar's appointment or signature.
1981 cE-11.1 s78
Protection from liability
82(1) No action lies against
(a) any person conducting a preliminary investigation,
a member of the Discipline Committee, the
Practice Review Board, the Investigative Committee,
the Appeal Board, the Council or the Board
of Examiners, the Registrar, the Association
or any person acting on the instructions of
any of them, or
(b) any member, officer or employee of the
Association
for anything done by that person or body in
good faith and in purporting to act under
this Act, the regulations or the bylaws.
(2) No action for defamation may be founded
on a communication that consists of or pertains
to a complaint regarding the conduct of a professional
member, licensee, permit holder, certificate
holder or member-in-training, if the communication
is published to or by
(a) the Association,
(b) a member of the Council, the Discipline
Committee, the Practice Review Board, the
Investigative Committee, the Appeal Board
or the Board of Examiners,
(c) a person conducting a preliminary investigation,
(d) an officer or employee of the Association,
or
(e) a person acting on the instructions of
any of them
in good faith in the course of investigating
the complaint or in the course of any proceedings
under Part 5 relating to the complaint.
1981 cE-11.1 s79;1995 c14 s39
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