REGULATIONS

PART 7
REGISTRATION OF PERMIT HOLDERS


48(1) The Council may issue to a partnership, corporation or other entity a permit to practice engineering, geology or geophysics in its own name if

(a) an application is made to the Registrar in the form and containing the information required by the Council,

(b) the application is accompanied with the fees prescribed by the Council, and

(c) the Council is satisfied that the practice will be carried on under the direct personal supervision and responsibility of a full-time permanent employee or member of the partnership, corporation or other entity who is also a professional member or licensee and who is qualified by education and experience in the field of engineering, geology or geophysics in which the partnership, corporation or other entity intends to engage.

(2) A permit expires one year after the date on which it is issued.

(3) When the Council issues a permit, it shall provide the permit holder with a permit number.

(4) No person shall use a permit number where the permit to which the number is assigned has been cancelled or suspended.

49 When the practice of engineering, geology or geophysics is carried on by a partnership, corporation or other entity pursuant to a permit under section 48, all final plans, specifications, reports or documents of a professional nature must

(a) be signed by and be stamped or sealed with the stamp or seal of

(i) the professional member or licensee who prepared them or under whose supervision and control they were prepared, or

(ii) in the case of plans, specifications, reports or documents that were prepared by other persons, the professional member or licensee who thoroughly reviewed and accepted professional responsibility for them,

and

(b) show the permit number issued to the partnership, corporation or other entity under section 48.

50(1) A partnership, corporation or other entity practising pursuant to a permit under section 48 shall keep the Association advised of the name of the professional member or licensee referred to in that section.

(2) The professional member or licensee accepting responsibility for the practice of a partnership, corporation or other entity shall, on relinquishing that responsibility, forthwith advise the Registrar to that effect.

51 The Council may revoke a permit issued under section 48 if the permit holder contravenes the Act, this Regulation or a term or condition of the permit.

52 No partnership, corporation or other entity may be incorporated or registered in the Province of Alberta under a name including the words "Engineering", "Geology" or "Geophysics", or variations of those words, unless it holds and continues to hold a valid permit issued under section 48.

53 The permit number issued to a permit holder may only be used by the professional members or licensees referred to in section 48(1)(c).


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Revised October 1999