C-26 - Professional Code

Section 118.5 Disposition versions

2018-02-01

118.5. Where the chair is dismissed, removed from office or suspended, where a matter is withdrawn from the chair, where the chair is unable to act, or where the chair’s term of office has expired and the chair decides not to proceed with a hearing, the senior chair must designate a new chair as soon as possible to hear the complaint, no matter what stage of the hearing has been reached.

Where a new chair is designated before the decision on the conviction is rendered, the disciplinary council may, with the consent of the parties, continue the proceeding and rely on the evidence already filed.

Where the chair is designated after the decision on the conviction is rendered, the disciplinary council continues the proceeding at the stage of the penalty hearing. The penalty hearing is governed by the same rules for evidence already filed as those set out in the second paragraph.

Where the decision on the conviction or the penalty was handed down at the hearing but not recorded in writing before a new disciplinary council chair was designated in accordance with the first paragraph, the senior chair, together with at least one other disciplinary council member, may sign the minutes of the proceeding. The decision is presumed to be in compliance with section 154 in such a case.

2013, c. 12, s. 8; 2015, c. 26, s. 21.

2015-07-13

118.5. Where the chair is dismissed, where a matter is withdrawn from the chair, where the chair is unable to act, or where the chair’s term of office has expired and the chair decides not to proceed with a hearing, the senior chair must designate a new chair as soon as possible to hear the complaint, no matter what stage of the hearing has been reached.

Where a new chair is designated before the decision on the conviction is rendered, the disciplinary council may, with the consent of the parties, continue the proceeding and rely on the evidence already filed.

Where the chair is designated after the decision on the conviction is rendered, the disciplinary council continues the proceeding at the stage of the penalty hearing. The penalty hearing is governed by the same rules for evidence already filed as those set out in the second paragraph.

Where the decision on the conviction or the penalty was handed down at the hearing but not recorded in writing before a new disciplinary council chair was designated in accordance with the first paragraph, the senior chair, together with at least one other disciplinary council member, may sign the minutes of the proceeding. The decision is presumed to be in compliance with section 154 in such a case.

2013, c. 12, s. 8.