Victorian Current Acts

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS REGISTRATION ACT 2019 - SECT 55

    (1)     Each of the following is a ground on which disciplinary action may be taken in respect of a registered professional engineer—

        (a)     the registered professional engineer has contravened—

              (i)     this Act or the regulations under this Act; or

              (ii)     a prescribed Act or law or a prescribed provision of a prescribed Act or law;

        (b)     the registered professional engineer has engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct;

        (c)     the registered professional engineer no longer meets the eligibility criteria for an area of engineering in respect of which the registered professional engineer is registered;

        (d)     the registered professional engineer is not a fit and proper person to provide professional engineering services in an area of engineering in respect of which the registered professional engineer is registered;

        (e)     the registered professional engineer obtained registration, or any required insurance, on the basis of information or a document that was false or misleading;

        (f)     the registered professional engineer has failed to comply with a condition of the registered professional engineer's registration;

        (g)     the registered professional engineer has failed to comply with an undertaking given to the Director under this Act, or to the Victorian Building Authority under the Building Act 1993 ;

        (h)     the registered professional engineer has not paid a fee or other amount required to be paid under—

              (i)     this Act or the regulations; or

              (ii)     a prescribed Act or law.

    (2)     The Director may make inquiries to determine whether a ground exists for taking disciplinary action under this Part.

Division 2—Show cause process