C-26 - Professional Code

Section 42.5 Disposition versions

2024-11-07

42.5. In an emergency situation and on the recommendation of a minister concerned, the Minister may, for the duration of the emergency situation, authorize a professional order to issue special authorizations to engage in professional activities reserved for members of the order.

Such an authorization may be issued to categories of persons, in accordance with the terms and conditions determined by the order of the Minister, in particular the validity period of that authorization.

An order made under this section comes into force on the date it determines and is not subject to the publication requirement set out in section 8 of the Regulations Act (chapter R-18.1) or to the date of coming into force set out in section 17 of that Act.

For the purposes of this section, an “emergency situation” is an objectively serious, actual or imminent event to which it is not possible to adequately respond within the scope of normal operating standards and that requires the use of an exceptional measure to counter or prevent harm to persons or damage to property or the environment.

2024, c. 31, s. 7.