Professional Engineers Act 2002 (Qld)

Professional Engineers Act 2002

An Act to provide for the registration of professional engineers, and for other purposes

Part 1    Preliminary

1   Short title

This Act may be cited as the Professional Engineers Act 2002.

2   Commencement

(1)The following provisions of this Act commence on assent—

(a)part 1, division 4;

(b)part 11, division 2, subdivision 1;

(c)section 150;

(d)schedule 2.

(2)The remaining provisions of this Act commence on 1 January 2003.

3   Main objects of Act

The main objects of this Act are—

(a)to protect the public by ensuring professional engineering services are provided by a registered professional engineer in a professional and competent way; and

(b)to maintain public confidence in the standard of services provided by registered professional engineers; and

(c)to uphold the standards of practice of registered professional engineers.

4   How main objects are achieved

The main objects are to be achieved primarily by—

(a)providing for the registration of individuals as registered professional engineers under this Act; and

(b)providing for the monitoring and enforcement of compliance with this Act; and

(c)imposing obligations on persons about the practice of engineering; and

(d)establishing the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland.

5   Act binds all persons

(1)This Act binds all persons, including the State.

(2)Subsection (1) does not make the State liable to be prosecuted for an offence.

6   Mutual recognition legislation not affected

This Act does not affect the operation of the Mutual Recognition (Queensland) Act 1992 or the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition (Queensland) Act 2003.

6A   Extraterritorial application of Act

(1)This Act applies both within and outside Queensland.

(2)This Act applies outside Queensland to the full extent of the extraterritorial legislative power of the Parliament.

7   Definitions

The dictionary in schedule 2 defines particular words used in this Act.

7A   Areas of engineering

(1)The areas of engineering for this Act are the areas of engineering for which—

(a)there is an assessment scheme; or

(b)qualifications and competencies are prescribed under section 10(1)(b).

(2)The board must publish the areas of engineering on its website.

Part 2    Registration of professional engineers

7B   Types of registration as a professional engineer

The types of registration as a professional engineer under this Act are registration as a practising professional engineer or a non-practising professional engineer.

8   Applying for registration

(1)Only an individual may apply to the board for registration as a registered professional engineer for an area of engineering.

(2)The application must be—

(a)in the approved form and state the type of registration to which the application relates; and

(b)accompanied by each of the following—

(i)satisfactory evidence of the applicant’s eligibility for registration;

(ii)if there is an assessment scheme approved for the area of engineering the applicant is applying to be registered in—the assessment entity’s assessment of the applicant against the…