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Timestamp: 2016-05-25 01:14:58
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§2', '§3', '§4', '§5', '§6', '§7', '§8', '§8', '§8', '§8', '§8', '§1', '§2']

DIVISION IDUTIES TOWARDS THE PUBLIC
DIVISION IIDUTIES TOWARDS CLIENTS
5. A member shall at all times acknowledge a client's right to consult another colleague, a member of another professional order or any other competent person.
7. A member's conduct shall be characterized by objectivity, moderation and dignity.
§2. Integrity
§3. Availability and diligence
§4. Professional liability
A member may not invoke the liability of the partnership or joint-stock company within which the member carries on professional activities or the liability of another person also carrying on activities within the same partnership or company as a ground for excluding or limiting the member's personal liability.
§5. Independence and disinterestedness
(2) the precautions taken to prevent access to the member's file by the person in the conflict of interest;
§6. Remuneration
21. A member shall promptly inform his client of the scope, terms and conditions of the mandate conferred on him, and shall obtain the client's agreement with respect thereto.
§7. Professional secrecy
27. A member may be released from professional secrecy only with the client's authorization or where so ordered or expressly authorized by law.
27.1. In addition to the cases provided for in section 27, a member may communicate information that is protected by professional secrecy to prevent an act of violence, including a suicide, where the member has reasonable cause to believe that there is an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to a person or an identifiable group of persons. However, the member may only communicate the information to a person exposed to the danger or that person's representative, or to the persons who can come to that person's aid. The member may only communicate such information as is necessary to achieve the purposes for which the information is communicated.
(1) warn without delay the person exposed to the danger, that person's representative or the persons who can come to that person's aid; and
(2) enter the following particulars in the client's record:
(b) the nature of the communication, including the identity and contact information of the person to whom the information was communicated, specifying, as the case may be, that it was to the person exposed to the danger, to that person's representative or to the persons who can come to that person's aid.
§8. Conditions and procedure applicable to the exercise of the rights of access and correction provided for in sections 60.5 and 60.6 of the Professional Code and provisions concerning a member's obligation to release documents to the client
§8.1. General
O.C. 628-2000, s. 1.31.1. A member may require that a request covered by sections 31.2, 31.5 and 31.8 be made and the right be exercised at his professional domicile during his regular working hours.
§8.2. Conditions and procedure applicable to the exercise of the right of access provided for in section 60.5 of the Professional Code
31.4. A member who, in accordance with the second paragraph of section 60.5 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26), denies the client access to the information contained in a record established in the client's respect must specify to the client, in writing, the reasons for his or her refusal and enter the reasons in the record.
§8.3. Conditions and procedure applicable to the exercise of the right of correction provided for in section 60.6 of the Professional Code
O.C. 628-2000, s. 1.31.5. In addition to the particular rules prescribed by law, a member shall promptly follow up, at the latest within 30 days of its receipt, on any request made by the client whose purpose is:
§8.4. Provisions concerning a member's obligation to release documents to the client
O.C. 628-2000, s. 1.31.8. A member must promptly follow up on any written request made by a client, whose purpose is to recover a document entrusted to the member by the client.
A member shall indicate in the client's record, where applicable, the reasons supporting the client's request.
DIVISION IIIDUTIES TOWARDS THE PROFESSION
§1. Derogatory acts
(i) ceases to hold the position of director or officer within the partnership or joint-stock company within 10 days of the date on which the striking off the roll or permit revocation becomes executory;
(ii) ceases to attend shareholder meetings and to exercise voting rights, if applicable, within 10 days of the date on which the striking off the roll or permit revocation becomes executory;
(iii) disposes of his or her voting shares or transfers them to a trustee within 10 days of the date on which the striking off the roll or permit revocation becomes executory;
(j) entering into an agreement or permitting an agreement to be entered into, within a partnership or joint-stock company in which a member is authorized to carry on professional activities, including a unanimous shareholders' agreement, if the agreement operates to threaten the independence, objectivity and integrity required for the practice of the profession or compliance by the members with the Professional Code and its regulations.
§2. Relations with the Order and with other members
DIVISION IVCONDITIONS, OBLIGATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS IN RESPECT OF ADVERTISING
DIVISION VNAME
O.C. 992-94, Div. V; O.C. 1092-2010, s. 10.45. Members may not practise the profession within a partnership or joint-stock company under a name that is misleading, deceiving or contrary to the honour or dignity of the profession or that is a number name.
46. Where a member retires from a partnership or joint-stock company or dies, the member's name must no longer appear in the name or advertising of the partnership or company after 1 year following retirement or death unless an agreement to the contrary has been entered into with the member or with the member's successors and assigns.
DIVISION VIGRAPHIC SYMBOL OF THE ORDER
REFERENCESO.C. 929-94, 1994 G.O. 2, 2372O.C. 628-2000, 2000 G.O. 2, 2532O.C. 832-2003, 2003 G.O. 2, 2710O.C. 1092-2010, 2010 G.O. 2, 4019O.C. 886-2014, 2014 G.O. 2, 2385