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Link Overview:
Table of Contents
Definitions...
Part 1
Membership in the Association...
Part 2
Continuing Professional Development Program...
Part 3
Practice Review Board...
Part 4
Council...
Part 5
Code of Ethics...
Part 6
Discipline..
Part 7
Registration of Permit Holders...
Part 8
General...
Part 9
Technologists...
Part 10
Registered Professional Technologists...
Part 11
Repeal and Expiry...
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 General
Regulations AR 150/99
PART 9 - TECHNOLOGISTS
| Definitions
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63 In
this Part,
(a) "registered
engineering technologist" means a person registered as
a registered engineering technologist under this Part;
(b) "Society"
means the Alberta Society of Engineering Technologists.
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| Use
of title and stamp or seal |
64(1)
For the purposes of section 2(4)(c) of the Act, an engineering
technologist is a person
(a) who engages in the
practice of engineering,
(b) for whose engineering
practice a professional engineer accepts responsibility,
(c) whose engineering
practice is subject to the supervision and controls that the
professional engineer considers appropriate in the circumstances,
and
(d) who is registered as
a registered engineering technologist under this Part.
(2) No person except a registered
engineering technologist shall use the title "registered
engineering technologist", the initials "R.E.T."
or any other abbreviation of that title in combination with any
other name, title, description, letter, symbol or abbreviation
that represents expressly or by implication that the person is
entitled to practise as a registered engineering technologist.
(3) No person except a registered
engineering technologist shall affix the stamp or seal of a registered
engineering technologist or permit that stamp or seal to be affixed
to a plan, drawing, detail drawing, specification or other document
or a reproduction of any of them unless
(a) that plan, drawing,
detail drawing, specification or other document was prepared
by, and
(b) the stamp or seal
is affixed with the knowledge and consent or in accordance with
the direction of
the registered engineering technologist
to whom the stamp or seal was issued.
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| Joint
Registration Board |
65(1)
There is hereby established a Joint Registration Board consisting
of 5 members appointed by the Council and 5 members appointed
by the Society.
(2) The members of the Board
shall select a chair from among themselves, who shall serve as
chair for a term of not more than one year.
(3) In selecting a chair the
members of the Board shall alternate between Council appointees
and Society appointees.
(4) The chair may designate
a member of the Board as vice-chair, and the vice-chair may exercise
all the powers of the chair in the absence of the chair.
(5) A quorum of the Board consists
of the chair or the vice-chair, 2 appointees of the Council and
2 appointees of the Society.
(6) The Board shall meet at
least once every 6 months.
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| Registration
of engineering technologists |
66(1)
An individual may apply to the Joint Registration Board to be
registered as a registered engineering technologist.
(2) An application under subsection
(1) must be in the form approved by the Joint Registration Board.
(3) Subject to subsection (1),
an applicant who
(a) is a member in good
standing of the Society and is registered with the Society as
a certified engineering technologist,
(b) has at least 4 years
of experience satisfactory to the Joint Registration Board in
the practice of engineering technology,
(c) holds a confirmed
diploma in Engineering Technology from a post-secondary education
institution that offers a program approved by the Joint Registration
Board or has equivalent academic qualifications satisfactory
to the Board,
(d) has general knowledge
of the practice of engineering technology demonstrated by passing
an examination or examinations set by the Joint Registration
Board, and
(e) satisfies the Joint
Registration Board that the applicant is of good character and
reputation
is entitled to be registered as
a registered engineering technologist.
(4) On considering an application,
the Joint Registration Board may
(a) approve the registration,
(b) refuse the registration,
or
(c) defer the approval
of the registration until the applicant
(i) passes an examination
approved by the Board,
(ii) obtains further
experience prescribed by the Board, or
(iii) passes an examination
approved by the Board and obtains further experience prescribed
by the Board.
(5) The Joint Registration
Board shall send written notice of any decision made by it under
this section to the applicant.
(6) If the decision made by
the Joint Registration Board is to refuse or defer registration
of the applicant, the Board shall send written reasons for the
decision to the applicant.
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| Appeals
of Board decisions |
67(1)
If the Joint Registration Board
(a) defers an application
for an aggregate period in excess of one year from the date
the application was submitted, or
(b) refuses to approve
an application,
the applicant may appeal the decision
of the Board by filing a written notice of appeal with the Joint
Appeal Board not later than 30 days after receiving notice of
the decision of the Joint Registration Board.
(2) The written notice of appeal
must include the reasons for the appeal.(3) On
considering an appeal, the Joint Appeal Board may
(a) approve the registration,
(b) refuse the registration,
(c) defer the approval
of the registration until it is satisfied that the applicant
has complied with section 66,
(d) require the applicant
to pass an examination approved by the Joint Appeal Board,
(e) require the applicant
to obtain further experience prescribed by the Joint Appeal
Board, or
(f) require the applicant
to pass an examination approved by the Joint Appeal Board and
obtain further experience prescribed by the Joint Appeal Board.
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| Joint
Appeal Board |
68(1)
There is hereby established a Joint Appeal Board consisting of
the following members:
(a) 2 members appointed
by the Council;
(b) 2 members appointed
by the Society;
(c) one member, who shall
be the chair, who is not a member of the Association or of the
Society and who is appointed jointly by the Council and the
Society.
(2) The Members of the Board
shall select from among themselves a vice-chair, and the vice-chair
may exercise all the powers of the chair in the absence of the
chair.
(3) A quorum of the Board consists
of the chair or the vice-chair, one member of the Board appointed
by the Council and one member of the Board appointed by the Society.
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| Cancellation
and suspension |
69(1)
The Joint Registration Board may cancel the registration of a
registered engineering technologist whose registration was made
in error.
(2) If the Joint Registration
Board is satisfied that a registered engineering technologist
is no longer a member in good standing of the Society or registered
with the Society as a certified engineering technologist, the
Board may
- cancel the registration of the registered engineering
technologist, or
(b) suspend the registration
of the registered engineering technologist until the Board is
satisfied that the registered engineering technologist has been
reinstated in the Society as a member in good standing and as
a certified engineering technologist.
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| Certificates
and stamps or seal |
70(1)
The Society shall issue a certificate of registration to a person
whose application to be registered as a registered engineering
technologist has been approved by the Joint Registration Board
or the Joint Appeal Board.
(2) On application by a registered
engineering technologist, the Society shall issue a stamp or seal
in a form approved by the Council and the Society to the registered
engineering technologist.
(3) A registered engineering
technologist shall apply the stamp or seal to a plan, specification
or report only if
(a) the plan, specification
or report was prepared by the technologist or under the technologist’s
supervision,
(b) a professional engineer
accepts responsibility for the plan, specification or report,
(c) the preparation of
the plan, specification or report was subject to any supervision
and controls the professional engineer considered appropriate
in the circumstances, and
(d) the professional
engineer has affixed the professional engineer’s professional
stamp or seal to the plan, specification or report.
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| List
of registered engineering technologists |
71 The
Society shall maintain and, during regular office hours, permit
any person to inspect a list of registered engineering technologists
in good standing. |
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| Surrender
of stamps and certificates |
72 A registered
engineering technologist whose registration has been suspended or
cancelled shall forthwith on being notified of the suspension or
cancellation surrender to the Society the certificate of registration
and the stamp or seal issued to the technologist. |
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