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Duties of Regulatory Bodies

The role of regulatory bodies under the
Professional Governance Act (PGA) is set out in
Section 22 [General duty and responsibilities of
regulatory bodies] as follows:

It is the general duty of a regulatory body at

all times to serve and protect the public
interest with respect to the exercise of a
profession, professional governance and
the conduct of registrants;
A regulatory body has the following
responsibilities:
to superintend the regulated practice;
to preserve and protect reserved titles
or reserved practices, as applicable, in
the public interest;
to govern the registrants of the
regulatory body according to the PGA,
the regulations and the bylaws;
to establish the conditions or
requirements for registration with the
regulatory body;
to establish, monitor and enforce
standards of practice to enhance the
quality of practice so that registrants
avoid:
1. professional misconduct,
2. conduct unbecoming a
registrant, and
3. incompetent performance of
duties;
to establish and maintain a continuing
competency program to promote
high practice standards amongst
registrants;
to establish, monitor and enforce
standards of professional ethics
amongst registrants;
to establish and employ registration,
investigation and discipline
procedures that are transparent,
objective, impartial and fair;
to administer the affairs of the
regulatory body and exercise its
powers and perform its duties under
the PGA or other enactments;
in the course of exercising the powers
and performing the duties of the
regulatory body under the PGA or
other enactments, to promote and
enhance the following:
1. collaborative relations with other
regulatory bodies, post-
secondary education institutions
and the government;
2. interprofessional collaborative
practice between its registrants
and persons practising another
profession;
3. the ability of its registrants to
respond and adapt to changes in
practice environments, advances
in technology and other
emerging issues.

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