Endorsed Recommendations
Summary of Legislative Review Discussions with Council – January 2015 to June 2017
From 2015 to 2017, there were nearly 50 recommendations that were brought before APEGA's Council for consideration. These have been organized into categories for easier navigation. Select a category below to see each set of recommendations and Council's position on each, or click one of the specific recommendation names to jump straight to that item.
Council, Registrar, and Statutory Entities Disciplinary Process Membership Categories Professional Practice Regulatory Publication Amendments
Recommendations for Council, Registrar, and Statutory Entities
Recommendations for Membership Categories
Recommendations for Regulatory Publication Amendments
Recommendations for the Disciplinary Process
- Authority to Inform the Public of Decisions of Statutory Boards and Committees
- Capacity to Practice
- Changes Regarding Orders, Fines, and Costs
- Complaints Against Former Members
- Consent Orders
- Dismissing Complaints and Terminating Investigations
- Enforcement Review Committee
- Establishing Time Frames for Notices and Discipline Matters
- Formalizing the Mobility of Discipline Decisions
- Introducing Creative Sanctions
- Investigative Panels Criteria for Interim Suspensions and Restrictions
- Investigator Authority
- Mediated Settlements
- Modernizing the Investigative Process
- Obligation to Comply and Cooperate
Recommendations for Professional Practice
- Authority of Practice Reviewers
- Building Code Exemptions
- Changes to the Description of Geoscience Work Products
- Changes to the Definition of the Practice of Geoscience
- Geoscience - Changes to Exemptions
- Improving Professional Practice
- Improving the Practice - Permit to Practice
- Permit to Practice – Registration
- Permit to Practice – Reinstatement
- Practice Prohibitions
- Primary Professional Liability Insurance
- Refining the Continuing Professional Development Program
- Updating Authentication Practices