86. The Bureau shall by resolution:(a) prepare, keep up to date and publish the roll of the members of the order according to the standards prescribed by regulation of the Office adopted pursuant to paragraph a of subparagraph 6 of the third paragraph of section 12;
(b) fix the date, time and place of the annual general meeting of the members of the order;
(c) (subparagraph repealed);
(d) appoint the president or another member as representative of the order on the Interprofessional Council;
(e) appoint the secretary, the assistant secretary and other employees whom it considers necessary, fix their remuneration and agree with them on the conditions of their engagement;
(f) determine the duties and functions of the secretary and other employees of the order;
(g) recognize, in accordance with the standards prescribed under paragraph c of section 93, the equivalence of the diplomas issued by a teaching establishment situated outside Québec, for the purposes of issuing a permit or specialist’s certificate, and the equivalence of the training of a person who does not hold a diploma, for the same purposes;
(g.1) recognize, in accordance with the standards prescribed under paragraph i of section 94, equivalence of terms and conditions for the issue of permits, specialist’s certificates and special authorizations determined in a regulation under the said paragraph;
(h) (subparagraph repealed);
(i) issue specialist’s certificates to members of the order entitled to receive them in accordance with the regulations;
(j) organize activities refresher courses or training periods for the members of the order;
(k) fix the amount of the annual assessment and, where applicable, of any additional assessment to be paid by the members or certain classes of members established on the basis of the professional activities in which they engage, and the date before which such assessment must be paid;
(l) strike off the roll the members of the order whoi. do not pay within the fixed time limit the assessment owing by them to the order;
ii. within the fixed time limit have not furnished security against professional liability and, where applicable, the liability of the partnership or the company, in accordance with paragraph d or g of section 93, or who have not paid the amount fixed in accordance with subparagraph p of the first paragraph of this section;
(m) give any advice it considers expedient to the Minister, the Office, the Interprofessional Council, teaching establishments or any other person or body it sees fit;
(n) (subparagraph repealed);
(o) (subparagraph repealed);
(p) establish, pursuant to the regulations made under paragraphs d and g of section 93, the amount required to defray the operating cost of the group plan or of the professional liability insurance fund, apportion the prescribed amount among all the members of the order or certain classes of them or, pursuant to the regulation made under paragraph g of section 93, solely among the members carrying on their professional activities within a partnership or a company in accordance with section 187.11, and determine when and where that amount must be paid, the whole in accordance with the terms and conditions it determines; for that purpose, the Bureau may, in particular, fix the amount payable by a member on the basis of the risk represented by the class to which he belongs, with regard to the claims filed under the group plan or the professional liability insurance fund from 23 June 1987 for any fault or negligence committed by that member in the practice of his profession.That amount includes premiums, administration costs, contributions to the group plan or professional liability insurance fund and any other expenses inherent in the operation of such a plan.
Notwithstanding section 96, the administrative committee is not authorized to exercise the powers provided for in the first paragraph of this subparagraph;
(q) designate, for the purposes of the regulation under the third paragraph of section 91, a provisional custodian and fix his remuneration, his responsibilities and powers and the conditions of the recovery of expenses incurred in his capacity as custodian from a professional or his successors;
(r) fix the duration, content, objectives, terms and conditions of a period of refresher training or a refresher course imposed on a professional under this Code;
(s) impose on its members and the employees of the order the requirement to take an oath of discretion, and establish the form thereof;
(t) cooperate, in accordance with the terms and conditions fixed under the second paragraph of section 184, in the development and review of programs of study leading to diplomas giving access to a permit or a specialist’s certificate, the standards that the Bureau must fix by a regulation made under paragraph c of section 93 and, where applicable, the other terms and conditions that the Bureau may determine by a regulation made under paragraph i of section 94 together with the standards of equivalence applicable to the terms and conditions that the Bureau may fix in that regulation;
(u) impose on any member who fails to take part in the training activities determined pursuant to a regulation made under paragraph o of section 94 the penalties prescribed in the regulation.