Updated for 2010 Changes to the Professional Engineers Act
These web pages have been updated to include both
enacted and pending changes due to the Open for Business Act, 2010. Note
that some changes will not be in force until proclaimed by the Lieutenant
Governor; for example, the putting into force the end of the industrial
exemption has been delayed numerous times.
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Clause 77.5 is often referred to as the moonlighting clause and a breach of this ethic is almost certainly
professional misconduct under
72(2)(i) For the purposes of the Act and this Regulation, "professional misconduct" means failure to make prompt, voluntary and complete disclosure of an interest, direct or indirect, that might in any way be, or be construed as, prejudicial to the professional judgment of the practitioner in rendering service to the public, to an employer or to a client, and in particular, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, carrying out any of the following acts without making such a prior disclosure:
- 4. Contracting in the practitioner's own right to perform professional engineering services for other than the practitioner's employer.