R-20, r. 5 - Regulation respecting the issuance of competency certificates

Section 15.5 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

15.5. The Commission may, by way of exception, exempt a person from the obligation to hold a journeyman competency certificate, occupation competency certificate or apprentice competency certificate if the person proves that he has performed, during the 12 months preceding a new subjection, work covered by this new subjection for at least 300 hours.

The application for exemption mentioned in the first paragraph shall be submitted not later than 12 months after the new subjection.

When the work in question comes within the scope of a trade, the exemption pertains to a journeyman competency certificate or apprentice competency certificate, according to the number of hours the person has worked in that trade, taking into account the number of apprenticeship periods determined for that trade in Schedule B to the Regulation respecting the vocational training of the workforce in the construction industry (chapter R-20, r. 8).

The exemption issued under this section is valid for a period of 12 months and for the work newly subjected. It mentions the region where the holder is domiciled or, if he is domiciled elsewhere in Canada, the region in which he wishes to benefit from an employment preference.

Notwithstanding section 16, the exemption issued under this section is renewed where, according to the monthly reports filed with the Commission by a registered employer, the holder has worked at least 150 hours during the time the exemption was valid.

For the purposes of this section, the expression “new subjection” means an amendment to a statute or regulatory instrument which extends the scope of the Act respecting labour relations, vocational training and workforce management in the construction industry (chapter R-20), as well as a judicial or quasi-judicial decision which states that a certain type of work is subject to the Act.

O.C. 1451-96, s. 6.