Professional Engineers Registration Act 2019

If VCAT decides that a disciplinary ground is established in respect of a registered professional engineer, VCAT may—

make one or more of the orders mentioned in subsection (2), (3) or (4); or

take no action against the registered professional engineer.

VCAT may order the registered professional engineer to pay a penalty of not more than the equivalent of 200 penalty units.

VCAT may also make one or more of the following orders—

an order reprimanding the registered professional engineer;

an order imposing a condition on the registered professional engineer's registration including, but not limited to, to submit to an audit of the engineer's practice of engineering;

an order varying a condition (other than a prescribed condition) on the registered professional engineer's registration;

an order suspending or partially suspending the registered professional engineer's registration for a stated period;

an order cancelling the registered professional engineer's registration;

an order disqualifying, indefinitely or for a stated period, the registered professional engineer from obtaining registration as a registered professional engineer;

an order directing the registered professional engineer—

to do a specified thing, including to rectify or complete specified building work; or

not to do a specified thing;

an order requiring the registered professional engineer to successfully complete a specified course of training within a specified period;

an order requiring the registered professional engineer to pay an amount to the Director as compensation for all, or a part of, the Director's reasonable costs of any investigation about the matter the subject of the proceeding, including the costs of preparing for the proceeding.

An order for payment of an amount under subsection (2) or (3)(i) may direct that, if the registered professional engineer does not pay the amount within the period stated in the order, the registered professional engineer's registration be suspended until the amount is paid.

If the registered professional engineer does not pay the amount within the stated period, the registration is suspended until the earlier of the following—

the day the amount is paid;

the day the registration expires.

A suspension under subsection (5) takes effect immediately after the end of the stated period.