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Policies for Acts not Constituting Professional Forestry
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Bill 110 | By-Laws |
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Regulations
Part I of the Bill 110 sets out the definitions and
describes the scope of the practice of the profession of professional
forestry and what is not included as professional forestry.
The Exclusion of Professions, Trades
or Occupations From OPFA Membership
INTRODUCTION
Bill
110, Section 52 deals with the power of the
OPFA to make Regulations. The section identifies the subjects
for which regulations are to be made as well as some specific aspects
of process, review, cost and distribution.
THE ISSUE
The Regulation identifies the professions, trades
and occupations to be excluded from OPFA membership.
In developing the Regulation it is important to keep
in mind the basic philosophy behind this by-law. Specifically,
that an exclusion will apply if an individual is acting within their
defined scope of practice. This would include individuals
who hold a baccalaureate degree from a university e.g. B. Sc. and
individuals who hold recognized certificate courses in subjects
directly related to the practice of professional forestry. e.g.
tree marking.
With respect to the definitions of “scope of practice”,
this would be taken from the professions, trades and occupations where
they exist and if they are now available, they would be established
as a result of investigation and examples of actual practice.
Part 1 of Bill 110 states:
Scope of practice
3. (1) The practice of professional forestry
is the provision of services in relation to the development, management,
conservation and sustainability of forests and urban forests where
those services require knowledge, training and experience equivalent
to that required to become a member under this Act and includes,
(a) the designing, specifying or approving of silvicultural
prescriptions and treatments, including timber harvesting;
(b) the appraisal, evaluation and certification of forests and urban
forests;
(c) the auditing of forest management practices;
(d) the assessment of impacts from planned activities on forests
and urban forests;
(e) the classification, inventory and mapping of forests and urban
forests; and
(f) the planning and locating of forest transportation systems,
including forest roads.
Exclusions
(2) The practice of professional forestry does
not include acts performed in relation to the management or manipulation
of forests if they are performed,
(a) personally by individuals on land which they
own;
(b) by a person acting within the scope of practice of a profession,
trade or occupation that is listed in the regulations;
(c) by persons responding to an emergency situation such as a forest
fire;
(d) by persons acting under the supervision of a member;
(e) by students enrolled in a forestry education program and under
the supervision of the course instructor in the program;
(f) by a member of the armed forces while on duty; or
(g) by a person engaged in scientific research.
ONTARIO REGULATION 145/01
No Amendments
Professional Foresters Association
Part III Acts Not Constituting Propfessional Forestry
Excluded acts
4. For the purposes of clause 3 (2) (b) of the
Act, a person who performs an act in relation to the management
or manipulation of forests that is within the generally accepted
scope of any of the following professions, trades or occupations
is not practising professional forestry when so acting, unless the
person is a registered professional forester:
- Natural resource technician and technologist.
- Forest management plan approver certified under
the "Managed Forest Tax Improvement Program".
- Certified tree marker.
- Biologist.
- Certified arborist.
- Landscape architect.
- Professional planner.
- Certified Ontario or Canadian land surveyor.
- Botanist.
- Zoologist.
- Professional engineer.
- Certified property appraisers.
- Agronomist.
- Ecologist. O. Reg. 145/01, s. 4.
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