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PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS ACT 2023 - SECT 36

 U Grounds for disciplinary action [See Endnotes]

[ Note: This provision was uncommenced at republication date. ]

Each of the following is a ground for disciplinary action against a professional engineer:

        (a)     the engineer knowingly or recklessly used false or misleading information to become a professional engineer;

        (b)     the engineer has failed to comply with an obligation imposed under section 27 (Obligations);

        (c)     the engineer knowingly or recklessly gave someone information about a professional engineering service carried out, or to be carried out, by the engineer that was false or misleading in a material particular;

        (d)     the engineer stops being eligible to be registered;

        (e)     the engineer has had their registration immediately suspended or cancelled under section 41;

        (f)     the engineer has been convicted or found guilty of an offence—

              (i)     that is an indictable offence under a law of the ACT or the Commonwealth; or

              (ii)     for an offence committed outside the ACT—that would be an indictable offence against a law of the ACT if committed in the ACT; or

              (iii)     under this Act; or

              (iv)     under a relevant law;

        (g)     the engineer has carried out, or is carrying out, a professional engineering service that the engineer is not registered to carry out;

        (h)     the engineer has contravened this Act or a relevant law;

              (i)     the engineer's registration (however described) under a relevant law has been suspended or cancelled as a result of regulatory action (however described) being taken against the engineer in that jurisdiction;

        (j)     the engineer has failed to comply with a requirement of any regulatory action taken against the engineer under this part;

        (k)     any other ground prescribed by regulation.



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