43 (1) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council and with prior review by the Minister, the Council may make regulations, 0.1  prescribing acts and conduct for the purposes of the definition of “professional misconduct” in section 1; 1.  respecting the scope of practice of early childhood education and prescribing services and activities that are part of the practice of early childhood education for the purposes of clause 2 (d); 1.1  governing the accreditation of programs in early childhood education offered by post-secondary educational institutions and other bodies; 2.  designating geographic areas for the purposes of clause 8 (2) (a) and prescribing the number of representatives for each geographic area; 2.1  respecting the qualification of Council members who are elected; 2.2  prescribing conditions disqualifying elected members of the Council from sitting on the Council and governing the removal of disqualified Council members; 2.3  governing conflict of interest with respect to members of the Council and for members of committees and persons included on rosters for committees, including, but not limited to, prescribing conflict of interest rules or guidelines and setting out procedures for the purposes of determining whether the rules or guidelines have been broken; 2.4  respecting the membership and practices and procedures of the committees required by subsection 19 (1), including, i.  the number of members to be appointed to each committee, ii.  the terms of office of those members, iii.  the conditions disqualifying members of the College from sitting on those committees, iv.  the removal of disqualified committee members, and v.  the quorum of those committees; 2.5  respecting the membership, powers, duties and practices and procedures of committees other than those required by subsection 19 (1), including, i.  the number of members to be appointed to each committee, ii.  the terms of office of those members, iii.  the conditions disqualifying members of the College from sitting on those committees, iv.  the removal of disqualified committee members, and v.  the quorum for those committees; 2.6  respecting the establishment of a roster under subsection 19 (5.1), including regulations prescribing requirements and restrictions that apply for the purpose of including persons on the roster, including, i.  prescribing qualifications of eligible panellists, and ii.  requiring persons on a roster to take an oath and prescribing the form of the oath, the manner in which it shall be made and the time period within which it shall be made; 2.7  governing, for the purposes of clauses 29 (2) (d.1) and 29 (2.2) (c), whether information respecting current or previous criminal proceedings involving a member should be included on the register or removed from the register; 3.  prescribing classes of certificates of registration and imposing terms, conditions and limitations on the certificates of registration as a class; 4.  respecting applications for certificates of registration or classes of them and the issuing, suspension, revocation, expiration and reinstatement of the certificates or classes of them; 5.  prescribing standards, qualifications and other requirements for the issue of certificates of registration, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, prescribing the academic qualifications and practical experience that are required for membership and providing for exemptions from the standards, qualifications and requirements; 6.  providing that the College or a committee of the College may determine whether certain academic qualifications and practical experiences are equivalent to the prescribed academic qualifications and practical experiences for the purposes of issuing certificates of registration; 7.  defining specialties in the profession, providing for certificates relating to those specialities and the qualifications for and suspension and revocation of those certificates and governing the use of prescribed terms, titles or designations by members of the College indicating a specialization in the profession; 8.  governing the accreditation of ongoing education programs, governing requirements relating to members’ learning plans, ongoing education and continuous professional learning, and providing for the establishment by the College of requirements respecting continuous professional learning; 8.1  governing the process by which members’ compliance with requirements referred to in paragraph 8 is determined, including requiring members to provide information and documents to the Registrar for the purpose; 8.2  prescribing circumstances in which a member is exempt from continuous professional learning requirements; 8.3  respecting the dissemination of information respecting requirements relating to members’ learning plans, ongoing education and continuous professional learning; 8.4  respecting the development, provision and accreditation of educational programs leading to qualifications of members additional to those required for a certificate of registration, and providing for those additional qualifications to be indicated on a certificate of registration or for certificates to be issued for such additional qualifications; 8.5  governing requirements relating to members’ professional learning about their reporting duties under the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 and governing how members’ compliance with such requirements is determined; 9.  establishing processes and criteria for suspending or revoking certificates of members who fail to meet ongoing education requirements; 10.  prescribing what constitutes a conflict of interest in the practice of early childhood education and regulating or prohibiting the practice of early childhood education in cases where there is a conflict of interest; 11.  governing a determination made by the Complaints Committee under clause 31 (2) (c) that a complaint does not warrant further investigation or it is not in the public interest to investigate a complaint further, including prescribing circumstances or conditions in which such a determination may be made; 11.1  governing the circumstances in which the Complaints Committee may extend the time period for a member, and prescribing the maximum number of days by which that time period may be extended, for the purposes of subsection 31 (4); 11.2  setting out requirements respecting the complaint resolution process under subsection 31.1 (1) or 33.1 (1) and otherwise governing the processes, including, i.  governing a determination made by the Registrar under clause 31.1 (1) (a) or under an authorization under subsection 33.1 (13), including prescribing factors that the Registrar shall consider and factors that the Registrar shall not consider in making the determination, ii.  prescribing timelines for the complaint resolution processes, iii.  prescribing circumstances in which the resolution of a matter that has been referred to a complaint resolution process shall be considered to have failed for the purposes of subsections 31.1 (8) and 33.1 (5), iv.  governing the circumstances in which a person who made or participated in a decision or referral for the purposes of subsection 31.1 (4) or 33.1 (1) or (2) may be a member of a panel that makes a decision in respect of the matter under section 31 or subsection 33.1 (2), or hears and determines the matter under section 33, as the case may be, v.  prescribing limitations for the purposes of subparagraph 2 iii of subsection 33.1 (13); 11.3  requiring that a panel of a committee established to hear or review a matter relating to a member of the College who is employed as a supervisor must include a member who is employed as a supervisor; 11.4  prescribing restrictions on a member’s duties for the purposes of clause 49.1 (8) (c); 11.5  governing the removal of decisions and resolutions that the College has published on a website under subsection 49 (4), for the purposes of clause 49 (7) (b); 11.6  prescribing employers for the purposes of subsection 49.4 (2); 11.7  designating persons or bodies for the purposes of subsection 51.1 (3); 12.  respecting the promotion or advertising of the practice of the profession; 13.  respecting the reporting and publication of decisions of committees; 14.  regulating or prohibiting the use of terms, titles and designations by members of the College; 15.  respecting the giving of notice of meetings and hearings that are to be open to the public; 16.  providing for the exemption of any member or class of members of the College from any of the regulations made under this section; 16.1  prescribing alternative requirements for eligibility for funding under clause 59.2 (3) (b); 16.2  prescribing the circumstances in respect of which a person’s eligibility for funding ceases for the purposes of subsection 59.2 (6); 17.  Repealed: 2014, c. 11, Sched. 3, s. 23 (5). 18.  prescribing anything that is referred to in this Act as being prescribed by the regulations. 2007, c. 7, Sched. 8, s. 43 (1); 2010, c. 10, s. 31; 2014, c. 11, Sched. 3, s. 23; 2016, c. 24, Sched. 1, s. 18; 2018, c. 8, Sched. 8, s. 8. Examinations permitted (2) A regulation made under paragraph 5 of subsection (1) may authorize the Registrar to assess the qualifications or competency of potential members by examinations or other means. 2007, c. 7, Sched. 8, s. 43 (2). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 2010, c. 10, s. 31 - 3/06/2010 2014, c. 11, Sched. 3, s. 23 (1-5) - 31/08/2015 2016, c. 24, Sched. 1, s. 18 (1, 2) - 05/12/2016 2018, c. 8, Sched. 8, s. 8 (1) - 08/05/2018; 2018, c. 8, Sched. 8, s. 8 (2) - 01/01/2020