8. The board of directors of the Ordre professionnel des psychothérapeutes du Québec issues a psychotherapist’s permit to a person who applies therefor within 2 years of the date of coming into force of section 187.1 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) and who, on the date of coming into force of section 187.1 of the Code,(1) is a member of the Ordre professionnel des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec or of the Ordre professionnel des psychoéducateurs et psychoéducatrices du Québec and is accredited as a psychotherapist; or
(2) is a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, the Association des psychothérapeutes psychanalytiques du Québec or the Société québécoise des psychothérapeutes professionnels and does not meet the conditions for the issue of a permit by one of the professional orders whose members may practise psychotherapy or, if the person meets those conditions, is a member of one of those orders.