O. Reg. 298/23: REGISTRATION

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ontario regulation 298/23

made under the

Psychotherapy Act, 2007

Made: August 1, 2023
Approved: August 17, 2023
Filed: August 21, 2023
Published on e-Laws: August 21, 2023
Published in The Ontario Gazette: September 9, 2023

Amending O. Reg. 67/15

(REGISTRATION)

1. Section 2 of Ontario Regulation 67/15 is amended by adding the following paragraph:

5. Emergency.

2. Paragraph 2 of section 5 of the Regulation is amended by adding the following subparagraph:

v. A member who holds an Emergency certificate of registration may only use one or more of the titles “Registered Psychotherapist (Emergency Class)” or “Psychothérapeute autorisé (catégorie d’urgence)”, and may only use the abbreviation “RP (Emergency Class)” for the English title and “PA (catégorie d’urgence)” for the French title.

3. The Regulation is amended by adding the following sections:

Emergency class

20.1 (1) The following are non-exemptible registration requirements for an Emergency certificate of registration:

1. The Minister must have requested that the College initiate registrations under this class based on the Minister’s opinion that emergency circumstances call for it or the Council must have determined, after taking into account all of the relevant circumstances that impact the ability of applicants to meet the ordinary registration requirements, that there are emergency circumstances and that it is in the public interest that the College issue emergency certificates.

2. The applicant must have been registered or licensed to practise psychotherapy in another jurisdiction in which the requirements for registration or licensure are similar to those in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of subsection 6 (1).

3. The applicant must have completed, no earlier than two years before the date of their application, the jurisprudence course that was set or approved by the Registration Committee.

(2) An additional requirement for the issuance of an Emergency certificate of registration is that within the three years prior to submitting their application for registration, the applicant must have practised the profession.

Emergency class, conditions, etc., of certificate

20.2 It is an additional term, condition and limitation of every Emergency certificate of registration that the member must practise psychotherapy with clinical supervision.

Moving from emergency to qualifying certificate

20.3 A member who holds an Emergency certificate of registration, or a former member who held an Emergency certificate of registration within the six months prior to applying for a Qualifying certificate of registration, may be issued a Qualifying certificate of registration despite not having met the relevant requirements set out in subsection 6 (1) within the time-periods provided for in section 6 and in addition is not required to pay the transfer fee required under a College by-law.

Emergency class, expiry

20.4 (1) Unless stated otherwise on the certificate, an Emergency certificate of registration expires one year after it is issued, unless it is renewed.

(2) Unless stated otherwise on the certificate, a renewed Emergency certificate of registration expires one year after it is issued, unless it is renewed again.

(3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), an Emergency certificate of registration expires six months after the date the Council determines that emergency circumstances referred to in paragraph 1 of subsection 20.1 (1) no longer exist even where the certificate would otherwise expire before or after that time.

Commencement

4. This Regulation comes into force on the later of the day subsection 3 (3) of Schedule 6 to the Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness Act, 2022 comes into force and the day this Regulation is filed.

Made by:
Pris par :

Council of the College of Registered Psychotherapists and Registered Mental Health Therapists of Ontario:
Conseil de l'Ordre des psychothérapeutes autorisés et des thérapeutes autorisés en santé mentale de l'Ontario :

Michael Machan

Vice President / Vice-Président

Mark Pioro

Deputy Registrar / Registraire adjoint

Date made: August 1, 2023
Pris le : 1^er août 2023

 

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