65 (1) The Minister may make regulations governing anything the Minister considers necessary or advisable for the effective administration and implementation of this Act, including regulations, (a) prescribing a trade as a trade for the purposes of this Act; (b) classifying a trade as a compulsory trade for the purposes of this Act; (c) prescribing the criteria and the process to be used to determine whether or not a trade should be classified or continue to be classified as a compulsory trade; (d) prescribing the scope of practice for a trade; (e) prescribing what constitutes engaging in the practice of a trade or a compulsory trade; (f) prescribing trades for which a certifying examination is required; (g) governing what constitutes proof of certification for the purposes of subsection 9 (1) or proof of apprenticeship for the purposes of subsection 9 (2); (h) designating persons by name, job title or otherwise who are authorized to request proof of a certificate of qualification, provisional certificate of qualification or proof of apprenticeship; (i) governing certificates of qualification and provisional certificates of qualification, including, (i) applications for certificates, the issuance, renewal and extension of certificates, and criteria for obtaining a certificate or a renewal or extension of a certificate, (ii) the term for which a certificate may be issued, renewed or extended, including providing for different terms depending on the trade, (iii) the imposition of terms, conditions and limitations on certificates, (iv) the suspension and revocation of certificates, including the circumstances in which certificates may be suspended or revoked, (v) other actions that may be taken in relation to certificates of qualification and provisional certificates of qualification; (j) prescribing other certificates that may be issued by the Registrar; (k) governing apprenticeship programs, including with respect to on-the-job training standards, in-class curriculum standards, examinations and other requirements; (l) governing certificates of apprenticeship, including the revocation of certificates of apprenticeship and the circumstances in which they may be revoked; (m) governing registered training agreements and the registration of training agreements, including prescribing academic standards, sponsor criteria and any other criteria that must be satisfied in order to register a training agreement, and the suspension and revocation of a registered training agreement, including the circumstances in which an agreement may be suspended or revoked and the process for suspension or revocation; (n) deeming an individual from another province or territory of Canada to be an apprentice under a registered training agreement under which he or she is to receive training in a trade required as part of an apprenticeship program, subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be specified in the regulations; (o) governing apprentice to journeyperson ratios, including, (i) prescribing a trade as being subject to an apprentice to journeyperson ratio, (ii) prescribing that a different apprentice to journeyperson ratio applies for a trade than the ratio set out in section 8, (iii) governing when individuals shall be deemed to be apprentices or journeypersons for the purposes of the apprentice to journeyperson ratio applicable to a trade, (iv) governing the determination of compliance with an apprentice to journeyperson ratio set out in section 8 or in a regulation, (v) establishing and governing processes by which the Minister may grant a person an exemption from an apprentice to journeyperson ratio or specify a different ratio for that person; (p) setting out a compliance and enforcement framework; (q) governing the public register; (r) prescribing alternative methods for serving a notice or document; (s) providing that a different time period or deadline shall apply instead of a time period or deadline specified in this Act; (t) exempting any person from any provision of this Act or the regulations; (u) prescribing or otherwise providing for anything required or permitted under this Act to be prescribed or otherwise provided for in the regulations, other than anything referred to in section 66, including governing anything required or permitted to be done in accordance with the regulations. Regulations, transitional (2) The Minister may make regulations providing for any transitional matters relating to the implementation of this Act and the repeal of the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 or relating to amendments to this Act, including, (a) deeming certificates of qualification, statements of membership and statements of completion of an apprenticeship program under the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009
to be certificates under this Act and providing for any related processes; (b) providing that terms, conditions and limitations on a certificate or statement issued under the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 continue to apply or apply with modifications to a certificate or statement deemed to be a certificate issued under this Act; (c) deeming registered training agreements under the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 to be registered training agreements under this Act and providing for any related processes; (d) providing for any transitional matter that may arise in connection with a trade no longer being prescribed as a trade for the purpose of this Act or no longer being classified as a compulsory trade; (e) governing proceedings under Part V of the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 or relating to administrative penalties under Part VIII.1 of that Act that are outstanding on the day subsection 38 (1) of this Act comes into force. Conflict (3) In the event of a conflict between a regulation made under subsection (2) and this Act or the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009, the regulation prevails.