Debates of June 6, 2006 (day 6)

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Deh Cho, that Bill 6, Engineering and Geoscience Profession Act, be read for the second time.

Mr. Speaker, this bill replaces the Engineering, Geological and Geophysical Professions Act, and continues the existing Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of the Northwest Territories as the new Northwest Territories Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists. The association is responsible for the regulation of the professions of professional engineering and professional geoscience in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Some of the key provisions of the bill are concerned with the following matters:

setting out the powers of the association to manage its affairs, including the powers to hold property, borrow money, make bylaws and elect its governing council;

registering members, licensees, members-in-training and permit holders;

setting out rules respecting various aspects of the practice of the professions, including the use of the titles "engineer" and "geoscientist," the use of stamps and the payment of fees set by the association;

conducting discipline proceedings;

providing that the association may exercise powers and functions for the regulation of the profession in Nunavut;

providing for certain transitional issues, including preserving registrations effected and proceedings taken under the former act.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Bell. There is a motion on the floor. The motion is in order. To the principle of the bill.

Question.

Question is being called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.

---Carried