Marginal note:Mandatory committees

• 19. (1) The Council shall establish the following committees:

  • (a) the Executive Committee;

  • (b) the Board of Examiners;

  • (c) the Complaints Committee; and

  • (d) the Discipline Committee.

• Marginal note:Other committees

  (2) The Council may from time to time as it considers necessary establish committees other than those referred to in subsection (1).

Marginal note:Role

• 20. (1) The Executive Committee shall perform such powers of the Council as the Council may delegate to it, other than the power to make regulations or by-laws.

• Marginal note:Urgent matters

  (2) Subject to ratification by the Council at its next meeting, the Executive Committee may take any action on any matter that requires immediate action between meetings of the Council, other than making regulations or by-laws.

Marginal note:Role

• 21. (1) Subject to section 22, the Board of Examiners has control over all matters relating to the admission and qualifications of candidates for a commission and to their examination.

• Marginal note:Admission of candidates

  (2) The Board of Examiners may admit a person to be a candidate for a commission only if the person has complied with the requirements specified in the regulations.

Marginal note:Directions from Council

22. The Board of Examiners shall comply with any direction given to it by the Council with respect to the exercise of the Board of Examiners’ powers.

Marginal note:Recommendations for commissions

23. The Board of Examiners shall recommend to the Council that a commission be granted to every candidate for a commission who has complied with the requirements specified in the regulations.

Marginal note:Role

• 24. (1) The Complaints Committee shall consider all complaints in writing that are received by the Association regarding the conduct or actions of any member of the Association, Canada Lands Surveyor or permit holder.

• Marginal note:Rights of Committee

  (2) Where the Complaints Committee has reasonable grounds to believe that a member of the Association, Canada Lands Surveyor or permit holder against whom a complaint is made has committed an act of professional misconduct or is incompetent, the Complaints Committee, or a person appointed by it for the purpose, may inquire into and examine the surveying activities of the member, Canada Lands Surveyor or permit holder and may enter, at any reasonable time, the business premises of the member, Canada Lands Surveyor or permit holder, other than a dwelling-house, and examine documents and things relative to the subject-matter of the complaint.

• Marginal note:Operation of data processing systems and copying equipment

  (3) In carrying out an investigation under this section, the Complaints Committee, or a person appointed by it for the purpose, may

  • (a) use or cause to be used any data processing system at the place to examine any data contained in or available to the data processing system;

  • (b) reproduce any record or cause it to be reproduced from the data in the form of a printout or other intelligible output and take the printout or other output for examination or copying; and

  • (c) use or cause to be used any copying equipment at the place to make copies of any record or other document.

• Marginal note:Requirement to assist

  (4) Every member of the Association, Canada Lands Surveyor or permit holder in respect of whom a complaint has been received by the Association shall give all reasonable assistance to the Complaints Committee, or to the person appointed by it to conduct the investigation, as the case may be.