32. Any person who, before 30 April 1976, held a qualification certificate or an attestation of experience issued by a body empowered to do so under the statutes of Québec and could have been exempted from the qualification examination under section 11 of the replaced Regulation shall retain until 31 December 1994 to right to be exempted from that examination and may obtain the issuance of a journeyman competency certificate in accordance with the provisions of section 1.2 of the Regulation respecting the issuance of competency certificates (chapter R-20, r. 5).
Subject to the first paragraph of section 1.4 of the Regulation respecting the issuance of competency certificates, any person who has exercised the right provided for in the first paragraph may invoke the same exemption for any subsequent application for the issuance of a journeyman competency certificate.