Professional Engineers Act 2002

This section applies if the board—

prepares a report under section 69(1) about a registered professional engineer; or

receives a report under section 71(1) about a registered professional engineer and does not request a further report about the engineer under section 71(3); or

receives a further report under section 71(3) about a registered professional engineer.

As soon as practicable after preparing the report, or receiving the report or further report, the board must decide to do 1 or more of the following—

start a disciplinary proceeding against the registered professional engineer;Note—

enter into an undertaking agreed with the registered professional engineer about a matter relating to the engineer carrying out professional engineering services, including, for example, to submit to an audit of the engineer’s practice of engineering;

caution or reprimand the registered professional engineer;

impose a condition on the engineer’s registration;

take no further action about the matter the subject of the investigation.

If the engineer does not comply with an undertaking entered into under subsection (2)(b), the board may decide to take another action mentioned in subsection (2).

In acting under subsection (2), the board must have regard to the main objects of this Act and the disciplinary grounds.

Also, regardless of what the board decides under subsection (2)(a) to (d), the board may start proceedings to prosecute the registered professional engineer for an offence.

A decision to take action as mentioned in subsection (2)(b) to (e) does not prevent the board taking the matter the subject of the investigation into consideration at a later time as part of a pattern of conduct or practice that may result in starting a disciplinary proceeding against the registered professional engineer.