GENERAL, O. Reg. 543/94

• Jurisdiction: Ontario

Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Act, 1991
Loi de 1991 sur les audiologistes et les orthophonistes

ONTARIO REGULATION 543/94

GENERAL

Note: This Regulation was revoked on November 19, 2012. (See: O. Reg. 373/12, ss. 8, 9)

Last amendment: O. Reg. 373/12.

This Regulation is made in English only.

PART I (ss. 1-4) Revoked: O. Reg. 552/00, s. 1.

PART II (ss. 5-9) Revoked: O. Reg. 552/00, s. 1.

PART III (ss. 10-18) Revoked: O. Reg. 22/12, s. 1.

PART IV
QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM

General

19. In this Part,

“assessor” means an assessor appointed under section 81 of the Health Professions Procedural Code;

“Committee” means the Quality Assurance Committee;

“continuing education equivalents” (CEEs) means credits that are assigned by the Committee for successful completion of continuing education and professional activities. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

20. (1) The Committee shall administer the quality assurance program, which consists of the following components:

1. Continuing education and professional activities.

2. Peer assessment.

3. Remediation of inappropriate behaviour and remarks of a sexual nature by a member towards a patient. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(2) Every member who holds a general certificate of registration shall participate in and fulfil the requirements of the quality assurance program. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(3) Every member who holds an academic certificate of registration shall participate in and fulfil the requirements of the continuing education and professional activities component of the program and is subject to the component referred to in paragraph 3 of subsection (1). O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(4) Every member who holds an initial, non-practising or teaching certificate of registration is subject to the component referred to in paragraph 3 of subsection (1). O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

Continuing Education and Professional Activities

21. (1) The Committee shall publish policy guidelines, and distribute them to the members, indicating,

(a) the types of continuing education and professional activities which, if successfully completed, would entitle members to CEEs;

(b) the minimum number of CEEs that a member must accumulate within each three-year period, including the minimum number of CEEs that a member must accumulate in topics that are specific to audiology or speech-language pathology; and

(c) the maximum number of CEEs that a member may earn, within each three-year period, for topics that are related to audiology or speech-language pathology. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(2) A member who holds a general or academic certificate of registration on the day this Part comes into force shall, in each three-year period commencing January 1, 1999, accumulate no fewer than the minimum number of CEEs specified in the guidelines. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(3) A member who obtains a general or academic certificate of registration after the day this Part comes into force, becomes registered again after having ceased to be a member or obtains a general or academic certificate of registration after having been registered in the teaching or non-practising classes of registration shall, in the three-year period beginning on January 1 in the year of registration, re-registration or change of status and in each subsequent three-year period, accumulate no fewer than the minimum number of CEEs specified in the guidelines. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(4) CEEs earned for the successful completion of activities during the calendar year, but before the actual date, of a member’s registration, re-registration or change of status count toward the satisfaction of the requirements of the first three-year period if they do not exceed the limits set out in the guidelines. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

22. (1) A member who is required to comply with section 21 but who is unable to do so due to illness, change of employment, unemployment or other factors beyond the member’s control may forward to the Registrar a written request for an exemption from compliance. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(2) The Registrar shall consider the request and may grant it, grant it with modifications or reject it after having taken into account the College’s guidelines on the granting of exemptions from compliance. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(3) The Registrar may make any decision that he or she considers just in all the circumstances, including,

(a) reducing the number of CEEs, or the number of CEEs in topics that are specific to audiology or speech-language pathology, that the member is required to accumulate during the three-year period;

(b) extending the time for a member to accumulate the required number of CEEs or the required number of CEEs in topics that are specific to audiology or speech-language pathology; and

(c) permitting the member to count towards the requirements in the three-year period, CEEs in topics related to audiology or speech-language pathology that exceed the limits set out in the guidelines. O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(4) If the Registrar considers it necessary to do so, he or she shall confer with the Committee before making a decision under subsection (3). O. Reg. 185/99, s. 1.

(5) The Registrar’s decision under this section is...