Restricted Practice

Individuals

Licensed engineers and geoscientists are held to high professional and ethical standards that require them to work in the public interest. Any person practicing engineering or geoscience as defined in the quoted excerpts from the Engineers and Geoscientists Act, 2008 shown below, must be licensed with PEGNL. These definitions are very broad and all encompassing to ensure public protection with respect to all aspects of engineering and geoscience.

The practice of engineering means: “reporting on, advising on, evaluating, designing, preparing plans and specifications for, or directing the construction, technical inspection, maintenance or operation of a structure, work, or process 

• • • • • that is aimed at the discovery, except by the practice of geoscience, development or utilization of matter, materials or energy or is designed for the use and convenience of human beings, and 

• • • • • that requires in the reporting, advising, evaluating, designing, preparation or direction the professional application of the principles of mathematics, chemistry, physics, or a related applied subject 

and includes providing educational instruction on the matters contained in this paragraph to a student at an educational institution but excludes practising as a natural scientist.”

The practice of geoscience means:” reporting on, advising on, evaluating, interpreting, processing, geological and geophysical surveying, exploring, classifying reserves, or examining activities related to the earth sciences or engineering-geology 

• • • • • that is aimed at the discovery or development of oil, natural gas, coal, metallic or non-metallic minerals or precious stones, water, or other natural resources or that is aimed at the investigation of geoscientific conditions, and

• • • • •  that requires in the reporting, advising, evaluating, interpreting, processing, geoscientific surveying, exploring, reserve classifying or examining the professional application of mathematics, chemistry, or physics through the application of the principles of geoscience, 

and includes providing educational instruction on the matters contained in this paragraph to a student at an educational institution.”

Companies

A company that offers engineering or geoscience services, as defined above, to anyone outside that company in Newfoundland & Labrador must be licensed by PEGNL and hold a PEGNL Permit to Practice. A Permit Holder company must also have at least one PEGNL-licensed engineer or geoscientist employed with the company who takes responsibility for the practise of each discipline for which the Permit to Practice is issued. 

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