Section 12 provides that summary conviction proceedings 

 shall be instituted within one year. 



Section 13 provides tor the making of regulations requir- 

 ing licences to transport fish, governing the issue, form and 

 terms and conditions of licences, exempting species of fish, 

 areas, transactions and persons from the Act, respecting the 

 detention of seized fish and respecting the disposition of 

 forfeited fish. 



Section 14 of the Act provides that it comes into force on 

 proclamation and by a proclamation appearing in the 

 Ontario Gazette of August 23, 1969, and issued pursuant to 

 Order in Council Number 2870,''69 dated the 24th day of 

 July, 1969, the Act was declared to come into force on 

 August 1,1969. 



THE SURVEYORS ACT, 1968-69 



The Surveyors Act, which was last revised in 1931, was re- 

 vised and up-dated and, with minor exceptions, the recom- 

 mendations of the Report of the Royal Commission Inquiry 

 into Civil Rights affecting self-governing professions were 

 incorporated into the Act which takes effect on January 1, 

 1970. The new Act continues the Association of Ontario 

 Land Surveyors, which was established in 1892, its council 

 of management and the board of examiners. The Act sets 

 out the objects of the Association, establishes the site of its 

 head office, and provides for appointment of officers and 

 other staff of the Association. 



New principles, in addition to those recommended by the 

 report, include: 



(a) provision of secret votes for officers of the Association 

 and approval of regulations and by-laws; 



(b) appointment rather than election of administrative 

 officers; 



(c) reduction from six years to six months of the period of 

 default for non-payment of dues permitting suspension 

 of membership; and 



(d) the permission of the practice of surveying by partner- 

 ships, associations of persons and corporations subject 

 to controls designed to protect the public by ensuring 

 that a qualified surveyor is responsible for survey work 

 performed. 



Among the new principles of the Act arising from the 

 recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission 

 on Civil Rights are: 



(a) appointment of lay persons to the council of manage- 

 ment including a lawyer of ten years' standing; 



(b) the distinction between regulations and by-laws, the 

 former dealing with matters of general public interest 

 such as discipline, admission, examinations, professional 

 misconduct, form of summons, practice and procedure 

 for hearings, bonding and designation of head office 

 and requiring the approval of the Lieutenant Governor 

 in Council and the latter dealing with internal matters 

 and not requiring such approval; 



(c) a right of a hearing before and a right of appeal from 

 refusal of admission to membership in the Association; 



(d) a broadening of the right of surveyors from other juris- 

 dictions to admission to membership in the Association; 



(e) the establishment of full range of sanctions from repri- 

 mand to suspension or cancellation of membership for 

 professional misconduct or obtaining admission as a 

 member through misrepresentations; 



(f) the removal of the authority of the Association to levy 

 fines; 



(g) the payment of fines into the public revenues; 



(h) the awarding of costs to members in respect of un- 

 warranted disciplinary action; 



(i) the right of a hearing prior to the council taking dis- 

 ciplinary action; 



(j) the right of representation at a hearing; 



(k) the holding of hearings in private except on the request 

 of the member involved and in the event of a request 

 the council has a discretion of holding the hearing in 

 public; 



(I) the rules of evidence in civil cases apply to hearings; 



(m) summonses may be issued to compel attendances at 

 hearings; 



(n) contempt proceedings shall be administered by the 

 courts rather than by the disciplinary body; 



(o) the person accused has the right to cross-examine wit- 

 nesses and call evidence; 



(p) decisions are to be reduced to writing, supported by 

 reasons and served on the person whose conduct is 

 under investigation within 30 days; 



(q) the right to continue practice until the right of appeal 

 has terminated or an appeal has been finalized, except 

 where the charge was incompetence; and 



(s) a right of appeal to the Court of Appeal on disciplinary 

 decisions. 



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