How will regulation of firms be enforceable?
The PGA enables a regulatory body to regulate firms when that regulatory body has been authorized through regulation and has developed the necessary bylaws to do so. Regulated firms must…
How will Indigenous practitioners be included in the new professional reliance model and how will the model affect current relationships between Indigenous groups and biology professionals?
The College is currently working with OSPG to develop and define a path forward towards reserved practice. Once reserved practice is established, anyone practising within the defined scope will be…
How is reserved practice reconciled with areas of practice overlap (such as with foresters, environmental professionals)?
Section 55 of the Professional Governance Act provides a pathway for reconciling any overlaps in reserved practices between two or more regulatory bodies under the PGA. By specifying the same area of…
How does this affect First Nation organizations and Biologists?
Registration with the College is not meant to compete with traditional ecological knowledge and expertise held by Indigenous people – but to compliment that knowledge. CAB welcomes the opportunity to…
Great info on statutory practice rights — what about Right to Title?
As per the Applied Biologist Regulation the following titles and their acronyms (RPBio, RBTech, ABT, etc.) are reserved and must not be used by anyone who is not registered and permitted by…
Do you feel that in order to regulate firms, professionals MUST have reserved right to practice?
As per the PGA, a firm refers to a legal entity or combination of legal entities engaged in providing services in respect of a regulated practice. Firms may be small,…
Does firm regulation apply to RPBios or just EGBC?
Currently only Engineers and Geoscientists BC has been granted authority to regulate firms that provide engineering and geoscience services. The College may seek to regulate firms in the future, building…