Registration Practices Assessment Guide — For Regulated Professions

• Introduction
• Specific Duties:
  1. Information for Applicants
  2. Timely Decisions, Responses and Reasons
  3. Internal Review or Appeal
  4. Information on Appeal Rights
  5. Documentation of Qualifications
  6. Assessment of Qualifications
  7. Training
  8. Access to Records
• General Duty

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Introduction

Purpose

This guide presents required and recommended registration practices for non-health regulatory bodies that are subject to the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act, 2006 (FARPA). The guide enables staff of the Office of the Fairness Commissioner (OFC) to take a consistent and transparent approach to assessing a regulatory body’s current registration practices and making recommendations for improvement.

This guide is a key part of the OFC’s continuous improvement strategy. For information about the role that this guide plays in the strategy, see the Strategy for Continuous Improvement of Registration Practices.

NOTE: Due to the differences in the legislation covering health regulatory colleges and the legislation for non-health regulatory bodies, two separate guides were developed. This guide is for assessing non-health regulatory bodies. For health regulatory colleges, see the Registration Practices Assessment Guide — For Health Regulatory Colleges.

Organization of This Guide

The rest of this guide is organized into sections that each list practices relating to a major element of FARPA.

Practices marked as "Required" appear in a shaded background. These are practices that correspond to the regulators’ specific duties identified in FARPA. The regulatory body must demonstrate these required practices.

Practices marked as "Good" relate to the general duty of regulators to provide registration practices that are transparent, objective, impartial and fair. These principles are not defined in the legislation. The OFC encourages regulatory bodies to implement the good practices.

Use of This Guide

To assess a regulatory body’s practices using this guide, OFC staff record whether the regulatory body is demonstrating a practice and offer comments. They also identify opportunities for improvement and further discussion, and highlight commendable practices. Staff use this guide to generate a Registration Practices Assessment Report.