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Québec

Veterinary Surgeons Act

(R.S.Q., c. M-8, s. 3)

Professional Code

(R.S.Q.C-26, s. 90)

DIVISION I

PROFESSIONAL INSPECTION COMMITTEE

1. The Professional Inspection Committee of the Order consists of seven members appointed by the Board of Directors from among the members of the Order who have practiced their profession for at least five years.

The Committee may be assisted by inspectors or experts appointed from among veterinary surgeons who have practiced for at least five years.

The quorum for the Committee is four members.

2. The term of the Committee members is two years except for the Chair, whose term is for three years. These terms are renewable.

Any administrative or disciplinary decision made with respect to a member of the Committee that has the effect of limiting their right to practice also terminates their term of office as of the date of notification of such a decision. The same applies to a member on whom a refresher period or training is imposed or who is found guilty of an offence by the Disciplinary Council of the Order or by the Professions Tribunal.

3. The Board of Directors appoints the secretary of the Committee.

DIVISION II

PROFESSIONAL INSPECTION RECORD

4. The Committee constitutes and keeps updated a professional inspection record for each veterinary surgeon who is the object of such inspection.

5. The professional inspection record of a veterinary surgeon contains all documents relative to the inspections undergone.

6. Veterinary surgeons have the right to consult their professional inspection record and to obtain copies of the documents it contains, subject to the applicable provisions pursuant to the Act respecting access to documents held by public bodies and the protection of personal information (c.

DIVISION III

GENERAL SUPERVISION OF THE PRACTICE OF THE PROFESSION

7. The Committee supervises the practice of the profession according to the annual program adopted by the Board of Directors.

8. At least seven business days before the date planned for an inspection, the secretary of the Committee sends notice of the inspection to the veterinary surgeon concerned.

The Committee can proceed to an inspection without notice if it has reasons to believe that sending such notice risks compromising the objectives of the inspection.

9. If, for serious reasons, a veterinary surgeon cannot receive the member of the Committee, the inspector or the expert on the proposed date, they so inform the secretary of the Committee and agree on a new date. Failure to notify the secretary of the Committee within a period of at least 48 hours before the proposed inspection date may result in expenses incurred for the inspection being claimed from the member.

10. When a veterinary surgeon demonstrates to the member of the Committee, the inspector or the expert that they were unable to take cognizance of the notice mentioned in section 8 above, they so inform the secretary of the Committee, who arranges a new date for the inspection and so notifies the veterinary surgeon as provided in section 8.

11. The member of the Committee, the inspector or the expert must, if required to do so during an inspection, produce a certificate issued by the Order, attesting to his capacity.

12. A veterinary surgeon who is the object of an inspection must be present during the inspection.

13. A veterinary surgeon must allow the member of the Committee, the inspector or the expert who asks to do so to examine or copy, at no charge, any files, books, registers and other elements on whatever medium in their possession or held by a third party.

14. At the end of the inspection, the member of the Committee, the inspector or the expert writes a report and sends it to the Committee within 30 days of the date of the end of the inspection.

DIVISION IV

SPECIAL INQUIRY INTO THE PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF A VETERINARY SURGEON

15. A Committee member who makes a special inquiry into the professional competence of a veterinary surgeon on their own initiative indicates in the professional inspection record of that veterinary surgeon the reasons that justify such a special inquiry.

16. At least five clear days before the special inquiry into professional competence, the secretary of the Committee sends notice of such inquiry to the veterinary surgeon concerned.

If sending such notice risks compromising the objectives of the special inquiry into professional competence, the Committee may decide that the special inquiry will take place without prior notice.

17. At the conclusion of the special inquiry, the Committee member, inspector or expert writes a report and sends it to the Committee within 45 days after the date of the end of the inspection.

18. Sections 9 to 13 apply, with appropriate adaptations, to the special inquiry held under this Division.

DIVISION V

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS FURTHER TO A SPECIAL INQUIRY INTO THE PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF A VETERINARY SURGEON

19. When the Committee, upon receiving the report of the special inquiry into professional competence deems that there is no reason to recommend that the Board of Directors take any of the measures provided in section 113 of the Professional Code (c. C-26), it so notifies the veterinary surgeon and the Board of Directors, if the inspection was held at its request, within 30 days of its decision.

20. When the Committee, upon receiving the report of the special inquiry into professional competence, has reasons to think it would be appropriate to recommend that the Board of Directors take any of the measures provided in section 113 of the Code, within 30 days after its decision, it so notifies the secretary of the Board of Directors as well as the veterinary surgeon concerned and sends the latter the following information and documents:

1o a statement of the facts and the reasons that justify recommending that the Board of Directors take any of the measures provided in section article 113 of the Code;

2o a copy of the report on the veterinary surgeon written by the Committee member, inspector or expert who made the special inquiry.

The secretary of the Committee likewise informs the veterinary surgeon concern of their right to submit verbal comments at a meeting of the Committee or to send them in writing within 15 days of the date of receiving notice of the date, time and place of that meeting.

21. For application of section 20, the Committee sends a notice to the veterinary at least 15 days before the meeting, specifying its date, time and place.

The veterinary surgeon who wishes to be present to submit comments must so inform the secretary of the Committee at least five days before the date set for the meeting.

22. The Committee receives the oath of the veterinary surgeon or a witness by way of a commissioner of oaths.

24. If, on the date provided for holding the meeting, the veterinary surgeon has not sent written comments and does not appear at the time and place indicated, the Committee meets in his absence without further notice or delay and deems that he has no comments to submit.

25. Depositions may be recorded electronically or stenographically at the request of the veterinary surgeon or the Committee. Such recording is at the expense of the person who requests it.

Any request for electronic or stenographic recording of depositions must be sent to the secretary of the Committee at least seven days before the date set for the meeting.

26. The recommendations of the Committee are adopted by the majority of members present within 90 days after the date at which the meeting ended. The reasons are justified, signed by the members of the Committee who attended the meeting and sent as soon as possible to the Board of Directors and the veterinary surgeon concerned.

DIVISION VI

FINAL PROVISIONS

27. This regulation replaces the Regulation respecting the Professional Inspection Committee of the Ordre professionnel des médecins vétérinaires du Québec (c. M-8, r. 5).

28. This regulation comes into force on the fifteenth day after its publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec.