Professional Engineers Act 2002

This Act may be cited as the Professional Engineers Act 2002.

The following provisions of this Act commence on assent—

part 1, division 4;

part 11, division 2, subdivision 1;

section 150;

schedule 2.

The remaining provisions of this Act commence on 1 January 2003.

The main objects of this Act are—

to protect the public by ensuring professional engineering services are provided by a registered professional engineer in a professional and competent way; and

to maintain public confidence in the standard of services provided by registered professional engineers; and

to uphold the standards of practice of registered professional engineers.

The main objects are to be achieved primarily by—

providing for the registration of individuals as registered professional engineers under this Act; and

providing for the monitoring and enforcement of compliance with this Act; and

imposing obligations on persons about the practice of engineering; and

establishing the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland.

This Act binds all persons, including the State.

Subsection (1) does not make the State liable to be prosecuted for an offence.

This Act does not affect the operation of the Mutual Recognition (Queensland) Act 1992 or the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition (Queensland) Act 2003.

This Act applies both within and outside Queensland.

This Act applies outside Queensland to the full extent of the extraterritorial legislative power of the Parliament.

The dictionary in schedule 2 defines particular words used in this Act.

The areas of engineering for this Act are the areas of engineering for which—

there is an assessment scheme; or

qualifications and competencies are prescribed under section 10(1)(b).

The board must publish the areas of engineering on its website.

The types of registration as a professional engineer under this Act are registration as a practising professional engineer or a non-practising professional engineer.

Only an individual may apply to the board for registration as a registered professional engineer for an area of engineering.

The application must be—

in the approved form and state the type of registration to which the application relates; and

accompanied by each of the following—

satisfactory evidence of the applicant’s eligibility for registration;

if there is an assessment scheme approved for the area of engineering the applicant is applying to be registered in—the assessment entity’s assessment of the applicant against the qualifications and competencies provided for under the scheme;

any other documents, identified in the approved form, the board reasonably requires to decide the application;

the application fee and registration fee prescribed under a regulation.

The approved form must provide for the inclusion of the applicant’s contact details as a registered professional engineer.

The applicant also must provide any other relevant information reasonably required by the board to decide the application.

Note—

For how the board may make a requirement for information under section 8(4), 18(6) or 23(5), see section 27.

An applicant for registration is eligible for registration only if—

the applicant is qualified, under section 10, for registration; and

the board considers the applicant is fit to practise as a registered professional engineer.

Also, an applicant for registration as a non-practising professional engineer is eligible for registration only if the board is satisfied the applicant will not carry out, or be responsible for the carrying out of, professional engineering services within the registration period to which the application for registration relates.