Person” or “Qualified Person” under other laws
must be a Professional Engineer with a Practising
Certificate.
Secondly there is an additional examination
called the “The Professional Competency
Examination” (or PCE in short) for the purpose
of issuing a “license” to provide professional
engineering services. Existing Professional
Engineers must now upgrade themselves to
obtain a Practising Certificate (if they wish to
“practice” and provide professional engineering
services) and the route for Graduate Engineers
includes another step. An illustration of the route
is shown in Figure 15. The PCE applies to both
local and foreign engineers who wish to practice
in Malaysia.
10.0 Views and Consultation with the
Stakeholders
Figure 16 – Views of ACEM
Figure 17 – Views of IEM
Figure 18 – Views of MITI
The Ministry of Works and PEMANDU held a
number of consultative meetings with the two
major stakeholders; ACEM a “trade union” that
represents the engineering consulting industry
and IEM a “learned” institution that represents
individual engineers. Both organisations have
totally opposing opinions on the issue of equity
being “open” to another body or individuals.
It is indeed surprising that ACEM supported the
view to allow 100% equity to be open to another
body or individuals when one would have thought
they would be very “protectionist” in their stance.
The views of ACEM on liberalisation are echoed as
far back as 1992 as shown in Figure 16.
The views of ACEM in 1992 in essence were
in the same tone as Government policies on
liberalisation in 2010. The engineering consultancy
industry and members of ACEM have waited for
over 20 years for these amendments to come into
reality. This is in sharp contrast to the views of IEM
as shown in Figure 17.
The concerns of IEM were that of “loss of
jobs” if equity of an ECP is unrestricted, and
that engineering decisions by such ECP could be
compromised resulting in the safety of consumers
being affected.
The views of MITI, a major proponent for
changes for the engineering industry, are in stark
contrast to the views of IEM as shown in Figure
18. MITI’s unequivocal view of liberalisation is
that all businesses irrespective of any industry
have the common traits of transparency, good
governance and professionalism. Professional
Boards should not use the professional Acts as an
excuse to protect the own profession. This view is
important as the REA was enacted to protect the
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