prompt payment and fees for anything the Registrar is required or authorized to do, and setting the amounts of any required
payment.
16.3 Requiring members to give the College their home addresses and whatever other information about themselves and their
professional activities that the by-law specifies, including the places where they practise the profession, the services they provide
there and the names, business addresses, telephone numbers, facsimile numbers and electronic mail addresses of their associates,
partners, employers and employees and specifying the form and manner in which the members shall give the information.
16.4 Providing for the compilation of statistical information on the supply, distribution, professional liability insurance coverage and
professional activities of members of the College and requiring members to provide the information necessary to compile those
statistics.
17. Fixing the number of members to be elected to the Council under clause 4 (2) (a) and defining constituencies, and prescribing
the number of representatives.
18. Respecting and governing the qualifications, nomination, election and term or terms of office of the members to be elected to
the Council, and controverted elections.
19. Prescribing the conditions disqualifying elected members from sitting on the Council and governing the filling of vacancies on
the Council.
The following are the proposed amendments to the Act relating to regulation and bylaw making powers:
New Proposed Regulation-Making Powers:
• Respecting the creation of classes of members.
• The ability to create classes of members is needed in order to consider a bylaw for student membership or retired
members.
• Respecting technical standards and procedures for the practice of veterinary medicine.
• This provision links to the object of developing, establishing, and maintaining standards of knowledge, skill and
proficiency among the College`s members
• Providing for the recognition of classes or categories of specialties in veterinary medicine
• This provision would permit the College to appropriately recognize specialties in veterinary medicine
• Designating acts of professional misconduct that must be reported
• While we have a list of misconduct matters in Regulation 1093, this authority makes it clear that Council may do so
• Providing for the direct observation of a member in his or her practice, including the direct observation by inspectors of
procedures, during the course of an inspection or examination
• This provision provides for observation-based inspection which can be helpful with standards-related cases
• Prescribing a quality assurance program
• This provision is in support of the introduction of a mandatory quality assurance program
• Prescribing a program related to changing scopes of practice that occurs following a specified period of time after
graduation from a veterinary college
• This provision provides for programs to manage the risk of scope changes
• Prescribing a program related to re-entering the profession following specified period of absence from practising
veterinary medicine
• This provision provides for re-entry programs
• Prescribing forms of energy for the purposes of the authorized activities section of the Act;
• Governing or prohibiting the delegation by or to members of authorized activities;
• Exempting a person or activity from the authorized activities section; and
• Attaching conditions to an exemption
• These regulation-making powers are necessary to administer the proposed scope of practice model
• Regulating or prohibiting the use of terms, titles and designations by members in respect of their practices; and
• Allowing the use of the title “doctor”, a variation or abbreviation or an equivalent in another language
• These regulation-making power are necessary to execute the proposed title protection provisions in the proposed
scope of practice model
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