OPSI — COMPLETE DRAFT LEGISLATIVE CORPUS (NOT ENACTED) SOURCE: current public MariaDB legislative corpus; no accounts or comments. OPSI_BUILD: v308 CORPUS_RELEASE: 85 LANGUAGE: en PUBLIC_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?opsi_plain=full&language=en&doc=loi WARNING: these are proposals for consultation, not enacted or in force. HISTORY: only revisions recorded in the database have verifiable publication intervals. ================================================ DOCUMENT_ID: loi CATEGORY: BILL DOCUMENT_TITLE: ACT RESPECTING FIRE SAFETY PRACTITIONERS DOCUMENT_NOTE: Foundation of the proposed professional regime ================================================ CHAPTER I — ORDRE DES PRATICIENS EN SÉCURITÉ INCENDIE DU QUÉBEC SECTION 1 | ART_LKTVLQMTHPBSP5KH | REVISION 6 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 22:47:57.662536 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_LKTVLQMTHPBSP5KH Persons who hold a permit issued under this Act and are entered on the roll of the Order constitute a professional order designated as the “Ordre professionnel des praticiens en sécurité incendie du Québec”, hereinafter referred to as the “Order”. The Order may also be designated under the name “Ordre des praticiens en sécurité incendie du Québec” or by the acronym “OPSI”. The Order is constituted upon the coming into force of the constitutive provisions of this Act, independently of the central registry’s documentary activation. The registry is established by law, but its documentary obligations are implemented later under section 61. Within a single legal person and under its legally competent bodies, the Order carries out its functions of maintaining the roll, administering the central registry, conducting professional inspections, operating the syndic and discipline mechanisms and discharging its other public-protection duties under professional legislation. These functions are not separate bodies and are financed from the Order’s general fund, subject to legally protected amounts. SECTION 2 | ART_7TH8LHG07DH3P4QT | REVISION 3 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_7TH8LHG07DH3P4QT Subject to the specific provisions of this Act, the Order and its members are governed by the Professional Code (chapter C-26). The Order is administered by a board of directors formed in the manner provided for in the Professional Code. The regular board has six elected seats held by eligible members and two seats appointed by the Office des professions under the Professional Code, subject to the mandatory additional mechanism concerning a person aged 35 or younger. The president is elected by secret ballot of the elected and appointed directors from among the six elected directors who stood for an elected seat, using the method in paragraph b of the first paragraph of section 64 of that Code. There is no separate candidacy for a seventh elected presidential seat and no additional elected seat resulting from that election. SECTION 3 | ART_S49FCALZUBPDE8E8 | REVISION 10 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 15:46:27.014601 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_S49FCALZUBPDE8E8 In this Act, the following expressions mean: 1° “competent authority”: a municipality, a fire safety service, the Régie du bâtiment du Québec, a department, a public body, or any other person or authority charged by law with enforcing the fire safety requirement concerned; 2° “CBCS”: Chapter VIII — Building of the Safety Code made under the Building Act (chapter B-1.1), in the version made applicable to the building, place, installation, system, equipment or appliance concerned; 3° “CNPI”: the National Fire Code of Canada, in the edition, with the amendments and adaptations made applicable to the building, place, installation, system, equipment or appliance concerned by an applicable Act or regulation, including a municipal by-law, directly or by reference; 4° “applicable fire-safety requirement” means a legally applicable obligation arising from an Act or regulation, including a municipal by-law, directly or through one or more successive references to a code, technical standard or other technical document, including through the CBCS or CNPI; 5° “applicable technical standard” means a standard or other technical document made legally applicable to the case concerned by an applicable fire-safety requirement, directly or through one or more successive references, taking into account the edition, amendments, adaptations and limits of application legally applicable to the case concerned; 6° “authorized person”: a member of the Order or any other person who, under this Act, another Act or a regulation, is authorized to carry out the professional activity concerned; 7° “responsible person”: the owner, operator, manager, employer or any other person responsible for the building, place, system, installation, equipment or fire safety measure concerned; 8° “registry”: the “Registre central de l’Ordre des praticiens en sécurité incendie du Québec” (Central Registry of the Order of Fire Safety Practitioners of Québec), a permanent function administered by the Order under this Act; SECTION 4 | ART_SUMQNKJU1ZGQ496X | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 19:45:44.016171 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_SUMQNKJU1ZGQ496X Only a person who holds a permit issued by the Order and is entered on its roll may use the title “fire safety practitioner” or the initials “P.S.I.” to designate themselves professionally. Within the regime established by this Act, the acronym “PDSI” denotes a “fire safety plan” and “PSI” denotes a “fire safety practitioner”. This terminological convention does not prohibit abbreviations lawfully used outside this regime. The acronym “OPSI” is reserved for the Order. The exact designation “PSI ret.” is reserved for a person previously admitted to the Order and entered on the roll as a retired member. It expressly identifies a person not entitled to practise under that status and may not be used to sign or approve professional work. The same reserved designation applies in both languages. An Order membership number remains distinct from technical references assigned to persons by the registry. Such assignment confers neither the PSI professional title, a licence nor a right to practise; the membership number remains the number issued under the applicable professional rules. SECTION 5 | ART_UU7LTAY79CR60124 | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 02:33:50.091612 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_UU7LTAY79CR60124 The practice of the profession consists in inspecting, testing, assessing and documenting fire safety systems, installations, equipment, appliances and measures; professionally approving the fire safety and evacuation documents provided for by this Act; producing professional reports, assessments, attestations and opinions; and carrying out the other activities provided for by this Act. The description of the field of practice does not, by itself, reserve every activity that may be related to it. SECTION 6 | ART_4N7FDM42V3UD1WRA | REVISION 3 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 20:10:45.704340 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_4N7FDM42V3UD1WRA The board of directors of the Order may, by regulation, establish categories or statuses relating to admission, candidacy, internship, supervision, practice and entry on the roll, and determine the criteria applicable to each category or status. The regulation may, in particular, determine: 1° the conditions for access to a category or status; 2° the conditions for maintaining, renewing, progressing within, changing or ending a status; 3° the programs of study, training, internships, periods of supervised practice, examinations, assessments or other qualification measures required; 4° the competencies that must be demonstrated; 5° the terms for recognizing prior learning, experience, training, certifications, internships or previous professional practice; 6° the conditions for equivalency or exemption; 7° the duration of a program, internship, supervision period or status, and the terms for extension or renewal; 8° the activities that may be carried out by a person who is not yet a member of the Order and the applicable supervision conditions; 9° the acts that may be signed, authenticated, approved or filed only by a member; 10° the conditions applicable to a member whose practice is temporarily supervised, limited or subject to supervision; 11° the information that may appear on the roll of the Order; 12° any other measure necessary to organize the admission pathway and control competence. The permit issued by the Order is a single permit. A member is personally responsible for ensuring that they possess the knowledge, experience, abilities, independence and means necessary before accepting or carrying out a mandate. Fields of practice, training, competencies, experience or qualifications that may be entered on the roll of the Order do not constitute separate permit categories. The member remains personally accountable for the professional acts, reports, conclusions and approvals that they perform, sign or endorse, whether self-employed, employed or practising in a firm or multidisciplinary organization. An employer or firm may have physical custody of records in accordance with the regulation on the keeping, retention, transfer and provisional custody of professional records without replacing the member’s judgment. The regulation made under section 6 may provide that any person beginning a new admission pathway must pass through one or more categories or statuses before a permit is issued. It may also allow the Order to recognize prior training, experience or practice as satisfying all or part of the requirements of a category or status. No maximum duration for training, an internship or an admission pathway results from this Act. Those durations are determined in accordance with that regulation, based on the pathway and the competencies to be acquired or demonstrated. The categories and statuses so established do not create separate permits or separate fields of permit. Where a permit holder is subject to a limitation, a condition of practice or a supervision requirement, it is entered on the roll in the cases provided for by the Professional Code or by regulation. Entries concerning a member’s right to practise permit the tracing of start and end dates of validity, renewals, suspensions, reinstatements, practice restrictions and the effective dates of those events, according to information lawfully available, without enlarging the scope of the permit. CHAPTER II — RESERVED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES SECTION I — INSPECTION AND TESTING SECTION 7 | ART_EFC9LHR224CXN18M | REVISION 4 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_EFC9LHR224CXN18M Subject to the authorizations and exceptions expressly provided by this Act, including section 9, the professional activities in this chapter and those concerning professional non-compliance notices specified in section 27 are reserved to members of the Order. This section does not prevent certain operations from being carried out under supervision by a person registered in a category or status established under section 6 where the regulation provided for in that same section expressly permits it. SECTION 8 | ART_CH5C4VUZZ2KH6RLF | REVISION 8 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_CH5C4VUZZ2KH6RLF The periodic inspection and testing of a system, installation, equipment, appliance or device are reserved where the following conditions are met: 1° the obligation to carry out the inspection or test arises from an applicable fire-safety requirement; 2° the prescribed interval between inspections or tests is at least three months, including where it is quarterly, semi-annual, annual or longer; 3° the inspection or test concerns: a) approved fire detection, alarm and signalling systems, appliances and devices, within the limits of their approval and field of application; b) suppression systems, installations, equipment and appliances using water or another extinguishing agent, whether fixed or portable; c) safety systems, equipment, appliances and devices intended to facilitate, direct or secure occupant evacuation, including: i. emergency lighting systems; ii. exit signs and exit-signalling devices; iii. smoke-control, smoke-evacuation or smoke-management systems and devices. Also reserved, where required under an applicable fire-safety requirement, are activities involving professional judgment and responsibility in initial verification following installation, acceptance, functional and commissioning tests, and verifications and tests required after alteration, repair, replacement or return to service. Integrated testing of the coordinated operation of multiple interconnected systems, installations, equipment or devices is also covered. Where professional judgment is required, the reserved activities include determining the technical scope, preparing or validating procedures, technical direction or supervision, verifying sequences and interactions, analysing results, assessing additional tests and reaching professional conclusions. Professional responsibility for the overall conclusions of an integrated test rests with one legally authorized and competent person, even where several professionals or other participants perform the work. Each participant remains responsible for their own distinct professional acts. Mere administrative scheduling, coordination of timetables, physical operations, installation work and the physical performance of tests by authorized persons are not reserved solely by this section. The minimum three-month interval condition does not apply to initial, acceptance, return-to-service or integrated testing. For verifications, inspections and tests referred to in this section, where the applicable requirement refers, directly or indirectly, to a code, technical standard or other technical document, the intervention is carried out in accordance with the provisions thereby made applicable, taking into account the edition, amendments, adaptations and limits of application legally applicable to the case concerned. Within the scope of the applicable requirement, the intervention may include presence, condition, accessibility, operation, activation, supervision, signalling, transmission, commands, expected responses and interconnection. Integrated testing may also cover the test plan and sequences, coordinated operation, interaction results, limitations and elements not tested. Where an element included in the required verification does not meet the applicable requirement, including because a device required to operate does not operate, a device required to be supervised is not supervised, a required transmission, activation or interconnection fails, equipment required to be present is absent where its presence must be verified, or an element cannot be verified, inspected or tested although that intervention is required, the finding falls under the non-compliance regime provided for in Chapter IV. A verification, inspection or test of that kind does not, merely because it is carried out, impose an obligation to search for or verify conditions that are not among the elements the applicable requirement requires to be verified as part of that intervention. Preparing, signing or authenticating the professional report resulting from these interventions is also reserved, including a report setting out the overall conclusions of integrated testing. Contributions from other participants may be identified without attributing the overall conclusions to them. The mere reservation of those activities does not, in itself, make any verification, inspection, test, code provision, technical standard or other technical document applicable. This reservation does not extend to engineering design, sizing, performance analysis, modification or approval of an engineering work. Engineers and professional technologists are expressly authorized by section 9 to perform the activities covered by this section when they have the necessary competence; the rights, duties, competence, signature, reporting, filing, correction and responsibility requirements of this Act apply to them on the same terms. Where a verification, inspection or test referred to in this section gives rise to a report that must be filed in the registry, no person may issue a certificate or other document that stands in place of the report, dispenses with signing or filing it, conceals any qualification, limitation or non-compliance, or falsely implies general approval of the installation or intervention. A supplementary certification expressly permitted by the regulation made under this section remains authorized within the limits of its own subject matter and subject to these prohibitions. The professional report signed and filed in the registry remains the official reference document. A supplementary certification does not alter its findings or qualifications and creates no new certification requirement in the absence of another legally applicable requirement. This section does not prevent the issuance of a professional training or competency attestation provided for in section 12. It does not prevent the issuance of simple proof of training that is not represented as a professional attestation. It does not prevent a certificate expressly required or authorized by another Act or regulation. Nor does it apply to a tag, attachment, control mark or other identification affixed directly to a system, installation, equipment, appliance or device where that identification is required or contemplated by an applicable fire-safety requirement or applicable technical standard. After consulting the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and the Ordre des technologues professionnels du Québec, the Order may, by regulation, permit certain certifications supplementary to a professional report, specify the eligible categories and set conditions governing their issuance, presentation and monitoring. Such certifications remain optional under this Act. They may not replace the report or its filing, conceal its qualifications, limitations or non-compliance findings, certify matters beyond those actually verified, or create a false impression of general approval. After the same consultations, and in accordance with the rules applicable to the adoption of regulations, the Order may add, amend or remove authorized categories of supplementary certifications. An administrative list may not change categories established by regulation. SECTION 9 | ART_7F5MEU65DV4FUF7V | REVISION 4 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_7F5MEU65DV4FUF7V This Act expressly authorizes an engineer entered on the roll of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and a professional technologist entered on the roll of the Ordre des technologues professionnels du Québec to perform the same professional activities it reserves or authorizes for fire safety practitioners, provided the individual has the knowledge and competence needed for the activity and no incompatible limitation, suspension or other restriction on the right to practise. This authorization arises from this Act and does not depend on an identical pre-existing authorization under another Act or regulation. This common authorization includes the inspections, verifications and tests, including initial and integrated tests, and reports covered by section 8; approvals of fire safety plans, directions, procedures, floor plans and diagrams under section 10; professional exercise evaluations under section 11; professional training or competence attestations under section 12; and reserved professional non-compliance notice activities under section 27. Within the same scope it includes the lawful preparation, signature, authentication, revision, correction, retention, consultation and filing of documents. For these activities, engineers, professional technologists and fire safety practitioners have the same rights, authorizations and opportunities and the same duties under this Act and its regulations concerning required competence, scope of verification, independence, signature, reports, notices, traceability, deadlines, retention, filing and personal accountability. No difference is based solely on professional title. Each person must refuse or limit work exceeding their actual competence. Engineers and professional technologists need not join the Order or obtain a PSI permit to perform these activities. They remain registered with their own order and subject to its ethics, insurance, competence oversight, professional inspection and disciplinary regime. This Act transfers no disciplinary authority over them to OPSI and does not exempt them from any legally applicable individual restriction. The common authorization permits no act that this Act does not authorize a PSI to perform. In particular, it grants no general authority for engineering design, calculation, sizing, modification of an engineering work or construction supervision, and no construction licence or trade qualification. Distinct acts reserved by another Act remain governed by that Act, subject to the express authorizations and legislative amendments provided by this Act. A member of another professional order or any other person may also perform an activity where authorized by an Act or regulation and competent to do so. This Act preserves those rights without requiring membership in the Order and creates no additional professional right outside its express authorizations. For documentary verification, the right to practise and any individual restriction are assessed at the dates of the act and signature. Administrative registration in the registry creates neither Order membership nor technical competence; it records the applicable authorization and resulting consultation and filing rights. SECTION II — APPROVAL OF FIRE SAFETY AND EVACUATION DOCUMENTS SECTION 10 | ART_7NG6HHW7JNC354FU | REVISION 6 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 03:26:28.272449 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_7NG6HHW7JNC354FU Every fire safety plan whose establishment, maintenance, revision or updating constitutes an applicable fire safety requirement must receive professional approval. The same applies, where required by such an applicable requirement, to: 1° evacuation directions or procedures; 2° diagrams, floor plans or other graphic representations forming part of a fire safety plan or evacuation directions or procedures. The requirement referred to in this section may arise, in particular: 1° directly from an Act or regulation; 2° from a municipal by-law; 3° from a reference to the CBCS or CNPI contained in an applicable Act or regulation; 4° from a reference made by the CBCS or CNPI to an applicable provision or technical standard. The professional approval provided for in this section may be given: 1° by a member of the Order who possesses the necessary knowledge and competencies; 2° by an engineer entered on the roll of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec or a professional technologist entered on the roll of the Ordre des technologues professionnels du Québec, who possesses the necessary knowledge and competencies; 3° by a member of another professional order or another person where another Act or regulation expressly authorizes that person to give such approval. The authorization conferred on engineers and professional technologists by subparagraph 2 of the fourth paragraph arises directly from this Act. For the approval referred to in this section, engineers and professional technologists are equally subject to the same requirements concerning competence, prior review, signature, validation, traceability, filing and personal accountability. Professional title alone does not change the scope of, or accountability for, that approval. The same rules apply to the revision, correction and renewal of the approval, and the signatory remains personally accountable for their review and conclusions, regardless of profession. That authorization does not allow either an engineer or a professional technologist to perform any other activity they are not otherwise authorized to perform, and does not alter the reservation of professional activities under another Act. Where another Act or regulation requires the involvement of another professional in relation to the same document or one of its elements, that requirement continues to apply. Professional approval must be renewed following any revision likely to substantially change the content of the document and on any other occasion prescribed by an applicable requirement. The person responsible for the building shall permanently keep, at the premises to which they apply, an up-to-date physical copy of the approved fire safety plan and any evacuation instructions, procedures and diagrams forming part of it. That copy must be accessible to persons responsible for implementing the plan and to competent authorities in the exercise of their functions, without relying on registry availability. It shall be updated following any applicable revision, subject to the protection of personal information it contains. The development, preparation, drafting, formatting or material modification of a document referred to in section 10 is not, in itself, a reserved activity. Before giving professional approval, the authorized person must carry out a sufficient review to allow them to assume personal responsibility for that approval and to conclude that the document complies with the applicable requirements within the limits of their mandate and competence. The person may not give approval solely on the basis of the signature, approval or declaration of the person who prepared the document. SECTION III — FIRE AND EVACUATION DRILLS, TRAINING AND NON-COMPLIANCE SECTION 11 | ART_R1J1WPEYV0XZGW5X | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 20:10:45.704340 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_R1J1WPEYV0XZGW5X Conducting a fire or evacuation drill required by an applicable fire safety requirement is not a reserved professional activity. The drill may be organized, directed and conducted by the responsible person, the building manager, supervisory staff or any other person designated for that purpose, subject to any other applicable requirements. After each required drill, the responsible person must prepare or have prepared a fire or evacuation drill report documenting the conduct of the drill. The report must contain at least: 1° the building or place concerned; 2° the date and time; 3° the nature of the drill; 4° the sectors or groups of occupants concerned, where applicable; 5° the main observations; 6° the difficulties, anomalies or problems identified; 7° the contemplated follow-up or corrective measures; 8° the name and capacity of the person responsible for the report. This report is a building-management document. It is neither a professional attestation, a certification of compliance, nor a professional assessment of the effectiveness of the fire safety plan or evacuation measures. It is retained with the building’s fire safety documents for the prescribed period. It must be capable of being produced to a competent authority or authorized person where legally required. It is not filed in the registry solely by operation of this Act. Producing a professional report, professional assessment or professional attestation in relation to a fire or evacuation drill is a reserved activity where such involvement: 1° is expressly required by an Act or regulation; 2° is required by a competent authority acting within its powers; 3° is performed under a mandate whose purpose is to professionally assess the conduct of the drill, the application of the fire safety plan, the evacuation procedures or related measures. The authorized person must clearly distinguish: 1° facts personally observed; 2° information from the drill report or another source; 3° the limits of their involvement; 4° their professional findings and conclusions. Their presence during the drill is mandatory. SECTION IV — LIMITS OF RESERVED ACTIVITIES SECTION 12 | ART_E3Q1366UY9FY03DS | REVISION 4 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_E3Q1366UY9FY03DS This Act: 1° does not confer any power belonging to a competent authority; 2° does not authorize a member to carry out an activity reserved to another professional except to the extent permitted by law; (3) subject to the express authorizations in sections 9 and 10, does not authorize another professional to perform an activity they are not legally authorized to perform; 4° does not authorize the performance of construction, installation, modification, repair or maintenance work for which a licence, qualification, card or authorization is required; 5° does not reserve surveillance rounds, routine visual checks, internal records or purely material or auxiliary operations; 6° does not reserve an exclusively periodic inspection or test for which the prescribed interval is less than three months, subject to an activity reserved by another Act; this exclusion does not apply to initial, acceptance or return-to-service verifications or to integrated tests referred to in section 8; 7° does not reserve the organization, conduct or factual documentation of a drill referred to in section 11; 8° does not reserve training, teaching, self-training or the issuance of a simple proof of training, subject to the attestation referred to in section 12. 9° does not transform a periodic inspection or test into a general verification of compliance of the design, construction, installation or prior modifications where those matters are outside the scope of the applicable requirement or mandate concerned. The reservation does not make administrative coordination, physical operations or work lawfully within the practice of engineering or licensed contractors exclusive activities of members of the Order. Training, teaching, coaching, practice, workplace learning and self-training in fire safety are not, in themselves, reserved professional activities. Any person, employer, educational institution, manufacturer, association or body may offer or provide training, subject to requirements under another Act or regulation. A person may acquire knowledge or competencies through experience, self-training, internal training, the reading of codes, standards or technical documents, or by any other appropriate method. Issuing a professional attestation of training or competence for the purposes of this Act is a reserved activity. It may be issued by a member of the Order or by a person referred to in section 9, within the limits of that person’s legal authorization and competence. Such an attestation may concern, in particular: 1° the training or competence of supervisory staff responsible for applying a fire safety plan or evacuation procedures; 2° the training or competence of technical personnel called upon to perform inspections, checks or tests whose prescribed interval is less than three months. The authorized person is not required to have personally provided the training. Before issuing the attestation, the authorized person must nevertheless conduct a sufficient assessment of the knowledge or competencies concerned. That assessment may take into account, in particular: 1° training received from a third party; 2° internal training; 3° experience; 4° prior learning or self-training; 5° a practical demonstration; 6° a written, oral or practical examination; 7° any other reasonable means. A simple proof of attendance, participation, success or completion may be issued by the trainer. Such proof does not constitute a professional attestation of competence. General training of occupants is not reserved. SECTION V — REPORTS AND CERTIFICATES CHAPTER III — CENTRAL FIRE SAFETY REGISTRY SECTION I — ESTABLISHMENT AND CONFIDENTIALITY SECTION 13 | ART_SCGJGV7E7H8H9G21 | REVISION 16 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 15:46:27.014601 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_SCGJGV7E7H8H9G21 The Order maintains and administers the Registre central de l’Ordre des praticiens en sécurité incendie du Québec as a permanent part of its public-protection functions. The registry and its technological platform belong to the Order’s functions. They have no separate legal personality, autonomous institutional administration or separate operating fund. The Order manages them without impairing the powers of its competent bodies or the rights of authorities and authorized persons. The registry exists and operates exclusively in electronic form. Every official filing is made through its secure electronic interface, its secure application programming interface (API), or, if unavailable, an official electronic fallback mechanism provided by regulation. Email, postal mail, fax, hand delivery or any other channel outside those mechanisms does not constitute an official filing. Only receipt and confirmation by the registry or its official fallback mechanism establish the filing date and time, subject to outage-recovery rules. Telephone calls and other urgent communications to emergency services or a competent authority remain subject to applicable obligations; they are not official filings and, where an official filing is required, do not dispense with subsequent electronic regularization. Providing information to an authority is distinct from filing it with the registry. The registry receives and preserves filings, identifies and authenticates authorized persons, protects documents and information, traces operations, manages versions and makes notices available to legally authorized recipients. It receives substantiated danger reports and notices of reportable non-compliance, as well as their supplements, follow-ups, corrections and administrative closures, without charge; an unverified report does not constitute a formal finding of non-compliance. The Order’s professional roll and the registry remain distinct as to the information they contain, their purposes, their confidentiality regimes and their access conditions. Registry administration does not restrict the right of other legally authorized professionals and persons to file or consult information, or the independence of the syndic or disciplinary bodies. For each building subject to the Act, the registry maintains a permanent administrative record enabling the legally communicable events and documents to be traced in accordance with the procedures prescribed by regulation. The electronic filing, consultation and receipt functions made available by the Order must be available through equivalent secure automated means, subject to the same legal entitlements, purposes, authorizations and restrictions; their technical protocols are prescribed by regulation. SECTION 14 | ART_FUA6G0TBZC956W82 | REVISION 8 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 22:47:57.662536 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_FUA6G0TBZC956W82 The registry is not public. The documents and information it contains are confidential. Despite any inconsistent provision of the Professional Code or the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information (chapter A-2.1), access to them is governed by this Act and the regulations made for its application. They may be consulted, used, communicated, extracted or reproduced only by a person legally authorized to do so and for authorized purposes. The Order may use information contained in the registry to produce anonymized and aggregated statistics for public protection, prevention and improvement of practices. Those statistics may include the number and type of non-compliances, correction rates and correction times, changes over time, distribution by system type, activity or any other relevant category, and provincial or territorial trends where anonymity can be preserved. No published or disclosed statistic may reasonably allow a person, professional, owner or building to be identified, directly or indirectly. Summary or analytical data disclosed to competent authorities for prevention, planning or statistical monitoring shall first be anonymized and, where necessary, aggregated. This requirement does not deprive a competent authority of restricted access to information identifying a particular building where such access is legally authorized and necessary for its monitoring or intervention functions. Public access is confined to information legally disclosable and to name- or identifier-based verification authorized by law; it does not permit bulk exports of personal information or a broader public roll than the Professional Code allows unless an Act expressly so provides. The regulation provided for in section 33 prescribes technical access, source authentication, appropriate logging, outage continuity and synchronization without adding access to confidential files. Reports requiring verification and disclosures outside a mandate remain confidential within the registry. Only legally authorized recipients may access them, and their verification status must be clearly marked. Unverified facts may not be presented to the public as confirmed non-compliance; disclosure is limited to necessary information and respects professional secrecy, subject to express authorization or an exception provided by law. As an exception to the confidentiality rule in this section, the Order's public membership roll, the public list of organizations authorized to offer the professional services governed by this Act, and the public directory of competent authorities are made available only within the limits of section 33. These three directories are separate from confidential central-registry files and disclose no building report, notice, protected information or other building document. The registry maintains an integral and verifiable record of operations performed within it, including access to the audit log. The technical recording requirements are prescribed by regulation without granting new access or lifting any confidentiality obligation. SECTION II — DOCUMENTS AND FILINGS SECTION 15 | ART_HUTUZQMSYDF56GC9 | REVISION 12 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 22:47:57.662536 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_HUTUZQMSYDF56GC9 The following must be filed in the registry: 1° professional reports arising from legally required interventions under section 8, including the following categories, without prejudice to the required signed or authenticated preliminary report where the final report cannot be filed within the prescribed time: (a) periodic inspection or verification reports; (b) initial verification, acceptance or commissioning reports, including those required before putting a system into service; (c) verification or test reports following alteration, replacement, repair or return to service; (d) functional test reports addressing operation, commands, activation, signalling and other required functions; (e) integrated test reports addressing coordinated operation, interactions and the overall professional conclusions for multiple systems, installations or devices; 2° fire safety plans professionally approved in accordance with section 10; 3° evacuation directives, procedures, diagrams and documents professionally approved in accordance with that same section; 4° professional reports, assessments or attestations relating to a drill where a professional intervention under section 11 is required by an Act, regulation or competent authority; 5° professional attestations concerning compliance, by the person responsible for a building, with applicable staff training or competency requirements, where such an attestation is required; 6° professional notices concerning a non-compliance under documented action or requiring action in accordance with sections 27 to 30; 7° notices changing the classification of a non-compliance entered in the registry; 8° correction notices and follow-up reports concerning a non-compliance under documented action or requiring action entered in the registry; 9. substantiated reports of danger requiring verification defined in Chapter IV, submitted independently of any professional report or mandate, together with related supporting documents and follow-up communications. Reporting-exempt non-compliances are not filed in the registry solely because they were identified. Apparent anomalies recorded in a report referred to in paragraph 1 may form part of the report filed, but their recording does not, by itself, constitute a non-compliance, a non-compliance notice or a separate registry entry. Individual attestations issued to a natural person under section 12 are not filed solely by reason of this Act. The ordinary drill report provided for in section 11 is not filed solely by reason of this Act. The categories may overlap: a single documented intervention may fall within several categories without requiring multiple artificial reports or filings. This section does not itself require any test or report not otherwise required by the rules lawfully applicable to the building or installation concerned. No policy, directive, form, guideline or standard of practice may add a category of document for which filing is mandatory. The list in section 15 defines the documentary categories of the full registry; it does not create a filing requirement in an inactive region. Mandatory filing applies only to documents produced from the legal activation date for the region in which the building is situated, with no general retroactive reconstruction of earlier documents. A substantiated report is a separate, free filing, not an inspection report or a formal non-compliance notice unless and until the facts required for the latter are sufficiently established. Its receipt, subsequent verification and any conversion into a formal notice are recorded separately, without creating a fictitious report or modifying an ordinary report otherwise required. The regulatory requirements for complete documentary filing and the creation of official building and filing records take effect only when documentary filing becomes legally mandatory in the region concerned. An eligible report declared during the transitional period is not a filing and does not constitute an official filing operation. This restriction does not apply to receipt of documents voluntarily filed in the official registry under section 69. As an exception to the document requirements for a professional report, a substantiated report outside a mandate may be filed as a factual statement giving, at minimum, the reporter's identity and area of competence, the known location or a verifiable approximate location, observed facts or separately identified reliable sources, the nature of the suspected danger, limits of knowledge and verification status. It must expressly state 'Report requiring verification — non-compliance not confirmed' where the applicable requirement or serious-risk threshold cannot yet be established. Neither a full inspection, a mandate nor a professional report may be required as a filing condition. The registry preserves supplements and corrections with their source and timestamp. A correction, modification or partial review of a current document remains linked to the original filing, without a new fee or postponement of the due date. A separate new filing of a document under paragraphs 1 to 5 requires that the corresponding inspection, verification, testing or professional review have been fully repeated and approved; the applicable fee is then payable again. Where a periodic requirement applies, the new cycle begins on the last day of that work, not on the filing date; the next due date is calculated using that frequency. This rule applies to all those document categories, even if no substantive change is necessary. The registry preserves the documentary chain, work dates, versions and fees paid without erasure. SECTION 16 | ART_YC33V37RU7TK0Z4N | REVISION 16 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 23:49:53.082409 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_YC33V37RU7TK0Z4N Every authorized person who professionally produces, signs, authenticates or approves a document referred to in section 15 is responsible for filing it in accordance with the central registry of OPSI regulation provided for in section 17. This obligation applies whether the person is a member of the Order, an engineer, a professional technologist, a member of another order or otherwise authorized. Engineers and professional technologists exercising the same authorization under this Act or its regulations are subject, without distinction based on title, to the same requirements concerning documentary validation, authentication, filing, correction and traceability and to the same personal accountability. In the case of a document referred to in section 10, responsibility for filing rests with the person who gives the professional approval. Another person may carry out the electronic filing operation without transferring professional responsibility. A filing operation may occur after an authorization has expired, provided the act and signature were lawfully completed at the relevant dates. Filing does not validate an act or signature performed without the required authorization. For an integrated testing report, the legally authorized person assuming responsibility for the overall conclusions is professionally accountable for them and is identified as such. Professionals responsible for independent parts are identified according to their contributions; a participant who merely performs the testing operations does not thereby assume responsibility for the overall conclusions. Existing duties to transmit documents to the owner or person responsible continue under the mandate and the law. A duly identified owner, or an authorized representative, may obtain a copy of building documents to which that person is legally entitled even if already supplied. The request is normally made to the professional who prepared or approved the document, or to another professional authorized under section 19 whom the owner mandates for this purpose. A professional who lawfully holds the document or has the necessary access responds to a legitimate request within a reasonable time, using the professional record or the registry. The registry offers mandated and legally authorized professionals a one-off electronic extraction of eligible documents only, after verification of identity, authorization, access entitlement and protection of third parties, with logging. The Order need not manually handle ordinary requests, without prejudice to direct disclosures required by statute or court order. Supplying a copy requires no new inspection. Consultation is free; only reasonable reproduction or transmission costs, disclosed in advance and permitted by law, may be charged. This does not create general access or any new consultation charge. Until the region concerned is activated, the documentary-filing obligation under section 16 and the regulatory requirements under section 16 to display building references on document pages are deferred. The monthly administrative declaration under section 64 must not be presented as a filing of the professional document in the registry. For a member of the Order, mandatory filing with the registry does not remove the duty to create and preserve a professional record outside the registry under the regulation on records and transfer. An eligible employer or firm may hold that record without requiring a duplicate personal archive; this rule does not change the recordkeeping duties of professionals governed by other orders. The reporting duty in Chapter IV may arise for a member of the Order independently of any mandate, signed document or professional report. A substantiated report identifies its author and the known facts; it requires neither a signature purporting to certify an inspection not carried out nor the prior creation of a fee-bearing report. The temporary absence of a registry building number or complete property reference may not prevent an urgent report; the link is regularized as soon as possible. Where the building-ownership prohibition under section 17 prevents that person from signing or filing a professional notice, the person fulfils the disclosure duty through a factual report requiring verification, within the same time limits and without waiting for another signatory to act. The regulation made under section 17 applies to every person required to make a filing, whether or not they are a member of the Order. It may not regulate the competence, professional ethics or professional methods of a member of another order. The registry signature and filing conditions under section 17, including those concerning ownership of the building, nevertheless apply to every covered signatory and filer, without giving OPSI disciplinary jurisdiction over members of another order. A professional document required to be filed must constitute a complete and authenticated documentary unit in accordance with applicable requirements; its format, supporting materials and version procedures are prescribed by regulation. No technical presentation requirement may artificially create a new professional obligation or a new filing fee. SECTION 17 | ART_XNK123HCQU54DJ3S | REVISION 21 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 23:49:53.082409 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_XNK123HCQU54DJ3S The board of directors of the Order determines, by regulation, the operating arrangements of the registry, subject to the exclusive authority of the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act over registry fees and their collection and refund terms under section 35. The regulation may, in particular, determine: 1° filing deadlines, procedures and proofs, documentary categories, fields, metadata, formats and reasonable file-size limits, including for principal PDFs and supporting exhibits; 2° conditions for signing and filing registry documents, including the prohibition against a person signing, authenticating, approving or filing a professional document concerning a building that the person owns in whole or in part or effectively controls, and methods for identifying, authenticating, validating and electronically signing operations; signing an operation remains distinct from professionally approving the document; 3° corrections, replacements, cancellations, versions, documentary links and due dates, and resumption of operations following an outage; 4° retention periods, integrity, security, confidentiality, traceability and protection of the audit log, including logging access to the log itself; 5° access through an application programming interface, authorizations, use limits, suspensions and revocations; 6° methods and thresholds for producing, anonymizing, aggregating, publishing and disclosing statistics under section 14; 7° making notices available, notifications, delivery failures, reminders, the distinction between consultation and acknowledgment, and the contingency directory and procedures; 8° the identification keys necessary for registry operations, including keys for buildings, filings, supporting exhibits and competent authorities, without limiting other useful categories, and the rules governing their assignment, historical links and geographic metadata, including provenance, accuracy and verification; 9° exclusively technical procedures for billing, payment confirmation, accounting reconciliation and processing refunds of lawfully established charges for the professional documents listed in paragraphs 1° to 5° of section 15, without amending the collection or refund rules established by the Minister referred to in the first paragraph. This regulation may not create, change or increase a fee or impose incidental charges for a danger report, a notice of reportable non-compliance or their supplements, corrections, follow-ups and administrative closures. It may not extend rights of access or diminish the confidentiality guarantees established by law. The regulation may assign preparation and revision of a registry technical specification to the technical committee, subject to board approval and publication with its version number and effective date. The specification sets out formats, protocols and interoperability arrangements; it cannot alter statutory or regulatory duties, legal deadlines, fees, access rights, retention periods or confidentiality and traceability safeguards. SECTION III — PROFESSIONAL SECRECY SECTION 18 | ART_MWSH7N8KS4S3XNH4 | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 02:33:50.091612 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_MWSH7N8KS4S3XNH4 Every filing, transmission and communication expressly required by this Act is authorized and mandatory notwithstanding professional secrecy. Only information reasonably necessary is communicated. SECTION IV — ACCESS AND LOGGING SECTION 19 | ART_BR88JVCKJ3DNDX33 | REVISION 16 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 19:17:44.200051 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_BR88JVCKJ3DNDX33 A member of the Order or any other person authorized under this Act, another Act or a regulation to perform a professional activity giving rise to the filing of a document in the registry may consult the registry where access is necessary to carry out a professional mandate within the scope of that person’s authorization or a function provided for by law. This right applies even if the mandate requires no filing and no document has yet been prepared. Merely uploading a document on another person’s behalf does not confer this right. Such persons may also consult the registry before a mandate is concluded in response to a prior, express and verifiable request for an offer of professional services or an assessment of a contemplated mandate, made by the building owner, its manager or their duly authorized representative. Consultation may be used to assess their competence, capacity or availability, evaluate the feasibility of the contemplated services, determine the nature or scope of the mandate, or prepare an offer free of charge, on a time-and-materials basis, at a fixed price or on any other basis. No price, offer eventually submitted or mandate ultimately concluded is required. The request must concern a specified building and an identifiable professional need, without requiring that the services already be precisely defined. Before consultation, the user must declare their identity, professional capacity, basis of authorization, the building concerned and purpose of access. For an existing mandate, the user must provide a verifiable reference to that mandate; for a prior request, the date and verifiable reference of the request and the requester’s identity and capacity must be declared. Consultation is read-only and limited to information objectively necessary for the stated purpose, within the applicable disclosure rights of the function performed or of the principal or requester. Neither professional authorization, the mandate nor the request overrides professional secrecy or a legal access restriction. Consultations and extractions are authenticated and logged. This section permits no general, permanent or bulk access. Consultation in preparation for an offer of services remains occasional and restricted to the building concerned and the verifiable request; it is available through the registry interface or the application programming interface under section 13, on the same terms. Neither channel may be used to search automatically for prospective clients, solicit business or conduct unauthorized bulk extractions. For an existing mandate, access through either channel is subject to the same professional and legal limits. It is prohibited to consult the registry, its indexes or its metadata to identify prospective clients, obtain an owner’s or manager’s contact details in order to solicit them, ask whether they would like an offer of services or send an unsolicited offer. Using or reusing for such purposes information obtained during access authorized for another reason is also prohibited. A request obtained after a prohibited consultation does not retroactively legitimize that consultation. Consultations and disclosures expressly required by law remain governed by their own conditions. A legally authorized professional who has signed or professionally approved a document filed in the registry retains a personal right to consult that document and its relevant versions or rectifications for the legally applicable retention period, even after employment or the mandate has ended. This right is separate from the former employer’s access or access based on a current mandate and is limited to professional acts for which that person is accountable and to a legitimate purpose, including verifying their work, responding to a complaint or cooperating with a professional inspection. It provides no access to former clients’ entire files, subsequent work by other professionals or unrelated commercial information. Professional secrecy, confidentiality, lawful access restrictions and audit logging continue to apply; this right cannot be used to solicit or divert clients. As an exception to the personal signatory right in this section, a person entered as a retired member has no permanent, general or search access to the registry merely because of earlier signatures. The person may obtain only reasoned, temporary and narrowly scoped access to documents required to exercise a legally protected right, including defence in disciplinary, civil, administrative or judicial proceedings, on approval by a competent authority, normally on a read-only basis, with logging, expiry and automatic revocation. Mandatory disclosures and court orders continue to be respected. This exception does not restrict the personal signatory right under this section of other legally authorized signatories. Where exceptional access is granted, it may be exercised through the interface or application programming interface under the same authorizations and restrictions, without creating independent access through either channel. The registry permanently preserves the attribution of past operations to the former signatory. Retaining that identity does not grant any new right to sign a professional act or access the registry; any exceptional operation permitted by law must be personally authenticated under that same identifier and restricted to the authorization granted. SECTION 20 | ART_L15517ELRJ9TMX91 | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 23:49:53.082409 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_L15517ELRJ9TMX91 The Régie du bâtiment du Québec has, as of right, permanent read-only access to the entire central registry throughout Québec, regardless of the competent authority normally responsible for any particular building. This access includes, in particular, filed reports, plans and other documents, declared non-compliances, their classifications, statuses and histories, follow-up and correction notices, and previous versions. This access right belongs to the Régie as a body, not indiscriminately to all its employees. It is exercised by expressly designated persons within their functions and mandates, which may justify full individual access to the entire registry. Administrative confirmations “Flag seen”, “Notice consulted” and “Acknowledged” relating to notices of which the Régie is a recipient under section 20 are not amendments to a professional record and remain permitted notwithstanding read-only access. Use of the interface and API remains subject to confidentiality, security, purpose limitation and audit logging requirements under this Act. The Régie has a province-wide dashboard, also accessible by API in accordance with the regulatory terms, allowing it to search and monitor records and obtain statistics by municipality, administrative region, building category, type of non-compliance, status and age of records. This access does not authorize the Régie to modify records, change their classifications or close them. Where supplementary routing to the Régie applies to a building, the Régie du bâtiment du Québec receives, for every area giving rise to that classification, the same notices and reports that the competent authority would normally receive: initial non-compliance notices, notices “requiring action” or “under action”, substantiated reports requiring verification, changes of classification or status, follow-up and correction notices, including automatic notices triggered when a deadline expires. The registry makes them available to the Régie and performs the same supplementary notifications, delivery-failure checks and reminders upon the same events and within the same time limits, through both dashboard and API, as for a competent authority recipient. Where the Régie is already legally the competent authority, it receives these notices in that capacity without duplicate delivery. In an institutional conflict, the competent authority continues receiving its ordinary notices and the Régie receives them simultaneously. Where no competent authority is declared, the Régie remains a recipient even if no other authority is designated. This administrative classification does not divert notices from an unrelated regulatory area to the Régie; no notice may be lost for lack of a recipient. Withdrawal from deciding a challenge is governed by section 31. Ordinary tracking flags, including “new notice”, “Flag seen”, “Notice consulted” and “Acknowledged”, remain distinct from the routing rules for the Régie. They are available to the Régie for notices of which it is a recipient on the same terms as for a competent authority, with separate recipient-specific timestamps and audit history. Confirming consultation or acknowledgment does not change documents and is neither approval of a finding nor mandatory intervention. The Régie’s province-wide dashboard and API identify buildings subject to supplementary routing to the Régie, applicable grounds and relevant regulatory areas. Sources used for classification, changes in conditions, successive categories, transmissions and their timestamps are preserved in the permanent history. Rectification ends the current supplementary routing once no ground remains, without erasing prior events and without requiring a separate classification flag or manual entry. These rules do not change non-compliance classifications, deadlines, professional duties or the statutory jurisdictions of authorities. They grant the Order no power to adjudicate jurisdiction and, subject to the decision-making power under section 31, create no new Régie investigation, intervention or sanction power or duty. No classification, missing-document alert or consultation charge may be improperly triggered in a legally inactive region; no fee is payable for an unavailable service. The Minister responsible for the administration of the Building Act (chapter B-1.1) may, by regulation, add any ground for supplementary routing of notices to the Régie for any reason that Minister considers sufficient. The regulation specifies verifiable criteria, relevant regulatory areas, authorized administrative sources, commencement, termination and transitional measures needed to avoid alerts based on provisional information. It does not permit arbitrary designation of an individual building by a non-regulatory decision and creates no new intervention power. SECTION 21 | ART_JRPXYE9ZGL725NUX | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 20:10:45.704340 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_JRPXYE9ZGL725NUX Solely for the purposes of an official investigation or inquest within their lawful duties, the coroner responsible for that investigation or inquest and a duly authorized member of a police force have equal rights, conditions and restrictions to read-only access to registry records and information directly relevant and necessary to the matter concerned. Each access requires identification of the person, the organization on whose behalf the person acts and the particular investigation or inquest justifying access; it remains subject to any judicial or other authorization required by law. To the extent relevant and necessary for that matter, such access may include reports, plans, notices and supporting documents, successive document versions, amendment histories and corresponding audit-log entries, including the audit trail for consultations of that log. The Order shall make authorized records available securely and, when legally permitted, as readable and usable copies, without enlarging the authorized scope. Authorization is personal, limited to the identified investigation or inquest and withdrawn as soon as it is no longer needed. It grants no general or permanent access, exploratory searches or right to alter, delete, reclassify or close records or notices. Every search, consultation, authorized extraction and transmission is authenticated, justified and logged under section 14. Information obtained may be used only for the investigation or inquest justifying access, subject to other disclosures, uses, retention measures and obligations permitted or required by law. This provision creates no additional investigative power, waives no legally required authorization and restricts no power to obtain documents or evidence granted by another Act or judicial order. SECTION 22 | ART_PAJ48H7YBWDGREHC | REVISION 8 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_PAJ48H7YBWDGREHC The Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act administers the other access categories, subject to rights granted directly by law. The Minister may, in particular, authorize access for: 1° engineers, professional technologists and members of other professional orders; 2° municipalities; 3° fire safety services; 4° departments and bodies; 5° competent authorities; 6° insurers, within the strict limits set out in section 23; (7) delegated central labour organizations and legally representative independent associations, within the strict limits of section 24; 8° other categories determined by the regulation on external access under section 42. SECTION 23 | ART_YM6QKXRRVXCLQZVV | REVISION 6 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_YM6QKXRRVXCLQZVV An insurer's access is strictly limited, for a building it insures or is considering insuring, to the existence of a currently effective non-compliance notice requiring action, the nature of that non-compliance and the correction deadline stated in the notice. Merely seeking a new professional assessment does not suspend the notice's status or effects. Under that access, the insurer has no access to any professional report, plan, reporting-exempt non-compliance or non-compliance under documented action, note, supporting document, identity of the professional, or any other information contained in the registry. When a non-compliance carrying status “non-compliance requiring action” validly changes to status “non-compliance under documented action”, or a person authorized to identify the non-compliance concerned files a correction notice, the notice ceases to be accessible to the insurer under this section. The Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act may not, by regulation or authorization, broaden an insurer’s access beyond the information provided for in this section. For a building it currently insures, an insurer may consult only the information specified in this section through the regular interface or the application programming interface, according to its authorizations. For a building it is only considering insuring, it may also make a targeted consultation through either channel after authentication, identification of the building, and declaration of a genuine insurance application file and its purpose. Consultation permits no prospecting, automated querying of multiple buildings or bulk extraction. Every access is logged. The systematic accumulation of results to build a parallel private history, retention unrelated to the application, unauthorized resale or redistribution, and reuse without legal grounds are prohibited. Only retention strictly necessary for the insurance decision and legal evidentiary or retention duties remains permitted, including, where applicable, under section 11 of the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (chapter P-39.1). The choice of channel never changes the information that may be disclosed. To apply the protection enacted by section 48, the insurer also receives only an indication of whether the current notice resulted from an incidental discovery. This indication comes from the ‘Origin of finding’ metadata and provides no access to the mandate, report, supporting documents, professional’s identity or reason for a new assessment. Before any premium increase specifically attributable to such an incidental notice, the insurer must comply with the prior telephone contact and three-day grace period provided by that provision. SECTION 24 | ART_FQ8JY5P1KC7HZ03R | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_FQ8JY5P1KC7HZ03R For a specified building where legally represented workers are currently present or assigned, read-only access to the existence of a current non-compliance notice requiring action, its nature and its recorded correction deadline may be granted to: (1) a central labour organization to which the association accredited or otherwise legally authorized to represent those workers has expressly delegated the exercise of this right; (2) an association accredited or otherwise legally authorized to represent those workers that is affiliated with no central labour organization. The right depends on legal representation and current presence in that building, not merely on industry, region or worker status. An affiliated association exercises this right exclusively through its central labour organization and must have delegated its exercise in writing. The registry verifies affiliation, delegation, scope and validity; it does not simultaneously grant autonomous access to the affiliated association, local branches or delegates. An independent association establishes its legal representation authority and absence of affiliation with a central labour organization. An affiliation or delegation ending or changing triggers immediate reassessment of access and prohibits duplication. Before access is granted, the applicant organization provides verifiable evidence of its identity and standing, the association’s connection to the represented workers and their current presence or assignment in the building, with the relevant validity period. The regulation specifies proportionate evidence reviewed regularly, without requiring workers’ identities by default. An unverifiable declaration is insufficient. Each eligible organization nominates the individuals who exercise this right in their duties. Access is individual, limited, revocable and logged. Anonymous shared accounts and personal access granted solely because someone is a worker, union member or local delegate are prohibited. The registry remains non-public. Consultation is exclusively for preventing fire risks affecting the represented workers’ safety and carrying out the corresponding legal representation duties. It confers no power to modify, reclassify or close a notice, direct the owner or competent authority, or exercise inspection or enforcement powers not provided by another Act. No professional report, plan, non-compliance being addressed or exempt from reporting, supporting document, note, history, professional identity, worker personal information or other registry information is disclosed under this right. Requesting a new professional assessment suspends neither the notice’s status nor its effects. Access to a notice ends as soon as it no longer has the status requiring action, including following valid action being taken or an admissible correction notice. If the eligible organization consulted the notice and retains a valid building connection, the registry may send a minimal notification identifying the notice, building and date and time that status ended, without disclosing the new status, reason, document or author’s identity. Access to a building is suspended when evidence of representation, required delegation or presence becomes insufficient or outdated, and revoked when the conditions cease to be met. Recorded consultations remain auditable without conferring historical access. Affiliation, delegation, scope and notification data are retained only as long as legally necessary, then erased or anonymized subject to applicable rules. Consultation may use the registry interface or an authorized API under the same data and scope restrictions, individual authentication, purpose justification and operation logging. General searches, building scans, bulk extraction, parallel notice files, resale, redistribution and incompatible reuse are prohibited. Only isolated retention strictly necessary to exercise a right or meet a legal obligation is permitted. The minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act cannot expand this right by regulation or authorization beyond the information, buildings, persons and purposes specified in this section. It applies only where the relevant regional documentary registry function is legally activated and available. SECTION 25 | ART_K8E2Q6L4FZTZHKV3 | REVISION 6 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 20:10:45.704340 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_K8E2Q6L4FZTZHKV3 Every competent authority in relation to a covered building declares to the registry, by relevant regulatory domain, the buildings over which it legally has jurisdiction and every new assignment, change or cessation of that jurisdiction. Several authorities, including several municipalities, may be associated with the same building in distinct domains or under concurrent jurisdiction. Intermunicipal agreements and transfers of responsibility are recorded on the basis of the declarations received. An authority may declare that its jurisdiction has ended without naming a successor. The registry preserves all declarations and dates, does not determine jurisdictional disputes and neither grants nor removes legal jurisdiction. Neither the location of the main entrance nor the location of the 911 call-receiving centre automatically determines regulatory jurisdiction. The regulation governing administrative transmissions sets out procedures for identifying buildings, determining recipients and communicating events, without conferring on a competent authority any jurisdiction not granted by law. SECTION 26 | ART_V8BGPQHGVP484DN4 | REVISION 7 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 04:22:33.532754 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_V8BGPQHGVP484DN4 The Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act may delegate to a professional order, municipality, fire safety service or public body the management of access granted to persons under its authority. The delegate body identifies expressly authorized persons and sets each person’s access scope according to their duties and mandate, including relevant territories, building classes, documents, functions, categories of information and API operations. When legally justified by the mandate, an individual authorization may cover the entire registry. Grants, changes, suspensions and withdrawals are recorded and periodically reviewed; every consultation remains authenticated, justified and logged. Delegation does not confer any power to alter, reclassify or close a notice without separate statutory authority. The Order remains responsible for access by its members. Delegated access under this section normally takes effect for documentary files in a region once that region is legally activated. Until completion of regional deployment, legally authorized limited early access before activation of a region is an exception, subject to any authorization required from that Minister and without prejudice to rights granted by another Act. CHAPTER IV — CLASSIFICATION, NOTICES AND FOLLOW-UP OF NON-COMPLIANCES SECTION 27 | ART_N9TYAN95J6GDBN20 | REVISION 8 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_N9TYAN95J6GDBN20 For the purposes of this chapter: 1. 'non-compliance' means a sufficiently established failure to meet an applicable fire-safety requirement, found by a legally authorized person within that person's competence. The finding may arise in an activity or mandate covering verification of the requirement or, without a general inspection, from an incidental discovery supported by facts sufficiently reliable to establish the unmet requirement. In an inspection or test under section 8, the finding falls within this definition where the applicable requirement called for that element to be verified; 2° “reporting-exempt non-compliance” means a non-compliance that does not reach the serious-risk threshold applicable to non-compliances under documented action or requiring action and that remains recorded in the professional report when it falls within the mandate, without being filed in the registry solely because it was identified; 3° “non-compliance under documented action” means a non-compliance that reaches the serious-risk threshold prescribed by the regulation made under section 30 and for which, at the time of assessment, immediate, serious, credible and documented handling exists on the part of the owner or responsible person, such that it is reasonable to allow correction within the applicable period; this classification means credible and documented handling exists, not that the non-compliance has been corrected; 4° “non-compliance requiring action” means a non-compliance that reaches the same serious-risk threshold as a non-compliance under documented action but for which no sufficient immediate, serious and credible handling is established, or whose handling has ceased, become insufficient or failed to result in verified correction within the applicable period; 5° “apparent anomaly” means a condition, absence, omission, arrangement or configuration observed during an intervention where verification of it was not part of the required inspection or test or the scope of the mandate and that appears capable of affecting a fire-safety function or warranting further verification. 6. 'substantiated report of danger requiring verification' means a communication separate from a formal non-compliance notice, based on directly observed facts or identifiable and sufficiently reliable information giving serious, objectively grounded reasons to fear a situation meeting the reportability criteria, although compliance or classification cannot lawfully be established from the available observations; 7. 'disclosure' means filing, without charge, a substantiated report or a formal notice of reportable non-compliance, together with their supplements and follow-ups, independently of any eligible professional report that may also be produced concerning the same facts. Subject to the authorizations and exceptions in section 9, the preparation, signature and authentication of a professional notice classifying reportable non-compliance as being addressed or requiring action, its reclassification, professional verification of correction and preparation and signature of professional conclusions supporting its correction, reasoned withdrawal or closure under this Act are reserved to members of the Order. This reservation also applies outside a mandate when the requirements for a formal notice are met. It does not reserve factual communication of a danger, a substantiated report requiring verification, physical corrective work or a competent authority’s own powers. SECTION 28 | ART_97TM0XLCR0KDR1BL | REVISION 10 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_97TM0XLCR0KDR1BL Where non-compliance reaches the serious-risk threshold and no immediate, serious, credible and documented handling is established, the authorized person classifies it as 'requiring action' under the regulation made pursuant to section 30 and acts without delay. Findings within a mandate or legally assigned activity are subject to the communication process under section 29; for an incidental discovery, neither the absence of that process nor the absence of an owner's response prevents a sufficiently substantiated notice. The person must: 1° for a finding within the verification scope of the mandate or assigned activity, inform the responsible person of the classification or, if that person cannot be reached, record unsuccessful contact attempts; for an incidental discovery, neither prior communication with that person nor any attempt to contact them is required; 2° file a notice in the registry as soon as possible and no later than 24 hours after the non-compliance and attainment of the serious-risk threshold are sufficiently established, without waiting for a response or award of a corrective mandate; 3° state in the notice the nature of the non-compliance and a correction period compatible with the urgency and severity of the situation. A formal notice may be prepared and filed outside a mandate where the person is legally authorized, has sufficient information to find and classify the non-compliance and specifies the limits of the verification performed; neither a full inspection, a mandate nor a professional report is a filing condition. If those facts are insufficient but the authorized person has serious and objectively grounded reasons to fear a reportable danger, that person instead files a free report requiring verification within the same promptness and 24-hour maximum counted from sufficiently substantiated knowledge. This provisional filing is not an official classification and may not impose an unverified correction deadline. Any later formal filing remains separate and free; payment never delays the communication. The follow-up, correction, reclassification and closure of non-compliance recorded in the registry remain available under the applicable legal rules, without erasure of the earlier finding or any presumption of compliance arising solely from a computerized operation. SECTION 29 | ART_HGVP3C5YPJSKZWUD | REVISION 7 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_HGVP3C5YPJSKZWUD Where an authorized person identifies non-compliance reaching the serious-risk threshold within the verification scope of a mandate or legally assigned activity, the person promptly informs the owner or responsible person of the nature and seriousness of the risk and that a notice will be filed in the registry, whether or not corrective work is entrusted to the person making the finding. The authorized person seeks information about measures taken or contemplated to remedy the situation, without requiring the corrective work to be entrusted to them. The date and means of communication, the response received or unsuccessful attempts to make contact are recorded. At the conclusion of that process, where immediate, serious, credible and documented handling is established, the non-compliance is classified as 'under documented action' and the responsible person is informed in writing of the classification, expected measures and a reasonable correction period. Otherwise, including where no response can be obtained in time, it is classified as 'requiring action'. Refusal to award a corrective mandate to the person making the finding does not, by itself, establish an absence of adequate handling. The corresponding notice is filed as soon as possible and no later than 24 hours after the non-compliance and attainment of the serious-risk threshold are sufficiently established. Communications and discussions concerning corrective work, a lack of response and completion of the professional report do not extend that deadline or delay emergency measures or communications otherwise required. The person briefly documents the elements supporting the conclusion that the handling is immediate, serious and credible, including the commitment expressed by the responsible person, steps undertaken, the announced timetable and, where required by the risk, temporary or compensatory measures in place. The period is determined having regard in particular to: 1° the level of risk; 2° the safety function affected; 3° the occupancy; 4° the number and vulnerability of occupants; 5° the extent of the situation; 6° redundancies or compensatory measures; 7° the expected duration; 8° the seriousness and reasonably foreseeable progress of the handling; 9° the reasonable complexity of corrective measures. The period may not exceed 30 days except with written justification. It may not exceed 60 days. The period does not constitute any derogation from the applicable requirement, and classification as a non-compliance under documented action does not mean that the non-compliance is intrinsically less severe than a non-compliance requiring action. This section applies to central-registry operations in the region concerned only from its legal activation; it neither suspends nor replaces hazardous-situation reporting duties or public-authority powers arising under other laws. The communication duties in the first two paragraphs do not apply to an incidental discovery outside the assigned verification scope, including one made during another mandate or without a mandate. The reporting person need not contact or attempt to contact the owner or responsible person before filing merely because of such a discovery. If the non-compliance and serious-risk threshold are sufficiently established, the person may immediately file a notice 'requiring action' where no immediate, serious, credible and documented handling is known to them; the notice records the incidental origin and the limits of available information, without claiming that the absence of handling has been verified with the owner. Handling already established by reliable information is assessed under the ordinary criteria. Where the facts do not legally establish the non-compliance or threshold, an authorized person subject to the disclosure duty instead files a substantiated report 'requiring verification' under section 27. The 24-hour maximum, emergency measures and any direct communication independently required by another law continue to apply. Unavailability of the registry does not suspend legally required urgent communications or the duty to report a serious danger. Backup procedures and subsequent electronic regularization are prescribed by regulation without altering mandatory time limits established by law. SECTION 30 | ART_T8CPTZYGPG0CJ3TB | REVISION 8 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 23:49:53.082409 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_T8CPTZYGPG0CJ3TB The board of directors of the Order shall, by regulation, determine the serious-risk threshold applicable to non-compliances under documented action and non-compliances requiring action, the criteria for distinguishing those classifications according to the state of handling, the criteria for classifying reporting-exempt non-compliances, the terms for recording apparent anomalies in professional reports, and the terms for registry filing, display in the competent authority dashboard, setting periods, verification of correction, changes of classification, reclassification, independent professional reassessment, correction, reasoned professional withdrawal of an insufficiently substantiated notice and professional follow-up. The regulation may establish application guidelines, assessment factors, grids, examples or presumptions to guide professional judgment, including regarding the serious-risk threshold, the immediate, serious and credible nature of the handling, reasonable progress of corrective measures, compensatory measures, the effect of the passage of time and occupancies involving particular vulnerability. The regulation applies to every authorized person subject to this chapter, whether or not that person is a member of the Order. It may not have the effect of removing from a legally authorized person the right to classify, change the status of, reclassify or verify the correction of a non-compliance within the limits of the person’s authorization and competence, subject to the signature and filing conditions under section 17 and the procedure for challenging reportability on unchanged facts in section 31. SECTION 31 | ART_GTRX4KNGH77AZGZS | REVISION 10 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 23:49:53.082409 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_GTRX4KNGH77AZGZS Any person directly concerned by a notice of non-compliance under documented action or requiring action may commission another legally authorized and competent person to examine the situation. That person makes an independent professional assessment, within the scope of the facts and verifications available, and assumes full professional and ethical responsibility for it. The registry records that new assessment and its consequences; neither the registry nor the Order adjudicates the substance of the non-compliance or a professional's responsibility through an administrative review procedure. In assessing the risk and, where appropriate, justifying a new classification, that person may consider in particular: 1° the importance of the safety function affected; 2° the extent of loss of function; 3° redundancy; 4° compensatory measures; 5° the type of occupancy; 6° the number and vulnerability of occupants; 7° means of egress; 8° reasonably foreseeable consequences; 9° the duration of the situation or the age of a document or verification where relevant to risk; 10° the accumulation of several non-compliances; 11° the existence of corrective steps or work and their progress; 12° the immediate, serious and credible nature of the commitment and attention provided by the owner or responsible person; 13° changes to the building, occupancy, systems or occupant vulnerability since the last relevant verification. The mere passage of time, an administrative delay or the age of a document does not automatically create a non-compliance under documented action or requiring action. They may, however, contribute to the risk assessment where they have a real effect on fire safety in the circumstances. The regulation may not make the choice of provider, award of a corrective mandate, negotiation of a price or any other commercial interest a criterion for classification, maintenance or change of classification. It may not automatically classify non-compliance as being addressed or requiring action, except for conversion on expiry from being addressed to requiring action under the regulation made pursuant to section 30, nor alter an applicable compliance requirement. Each reclassification, finding that corrective action has been completed, or reasoned finding that the notice lacked sufficient grounds must be signed by the authorized person assuming responsibility, stating the scope of the verification, supporting reasons and date of findings. The registry links the operation to the original notice, updates its status in accordance with applicable rules, and preserves all earlier versions and signatories without erasure. A new assessment does not in itself presume fault by the original signatory or suspend legally required safety measures. Every new professional assessment of an already recorded reportable non-compliance must state in a separate metadata field whether it results from a change in the facts or circumstances, a disagreement between professionals about the same facts, or both. Its author identifies the notice and conclusions concerned, explains the new elements or point of disagreement and specifies the scope of the checks performed. This indication creates no non-compliance category, administrative review procedure or presumption of fault, and does not suspend any effect of the notice. Where another authorized person disputes, on unchanged facts, that the finding met the legal conditions for mandatorily reportable non-compliance, that person discusses the matter with the signatory of the disputed conclusion and records their agreement on the proposed reclassification or withdrawal. Without documented agreement, including where that signatory cannot be reached despite reasonable efforts, the assessments and grounds of disagreement are submitted to the authority competent for the requirement concerned. A competent authority that directly or indirectly owns, manages or operates the building withdraws from this decision and forwards the challenge to the Régie du bâtiment du Québec. If no competent authority is identified in the registry for the requirement concerned, or if it refuses to decide, the challenge is also forwarded to the Régie, which is authorized to decide it. If the Régie refuses to decide or is itself in that institutional-conflict situation, the challenge is forwarded to the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act, who must decide it. The person deciding the matter must not have participated in managing the building or in the disputed assessment. The decision is reasoned and made after the professionals concerned and the responsible person have had an opportunity to submit observations; the registry gives effect to that decision upon receipt. The challenge alone does not alter the notice or prevent subsequent developments, automatic conversions or required safety measures from being recorded or taking effect. The decision does not determine professional liability and remains subject to applicable remedies. A documented change in facts, including newly credible action, compensatory measures, deterioration, verified correction or a requirement becoming inapplicable, allows an authorized person to update the status or close the notice under the applicable rules without the previous signatory’s agreement or a prior authority decision. The development is dated and justified without rewriting the earlier finding; a mere challenge to its merits cannot be presented as a change in circumstances. SECTION 32 | ART_VCAQ00Q3HW6S5355 | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 02:33:50.091612 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_VCAQ00Q3HW6S5355 No person may prevent or attempt to prevent another person from complying with an obligation to file, give notice, correct or reclassify under this Act. Any contractual clause having that object or effect is without effect. Reprisals are prohibited. A person who makes a mandatory communication in good faith may not be sued for that reason alone. In particular, where the registry and its electronic fallback mechanisms are unavailable, a reasonable, documented mistake concerning the identity or contact details of the recipient authority for a telephone report does not, by itself, constitute an offence or disciplinary fault, including for an authorized professional governed by another professional order, in the absence of a separate fault. This protection does not extend to bad faith, falsification or deliberate failure to make another legally required communication, and does not alter independent duties under other laws. A substantiated or formal disclosure made in good faith under this Chapter may not, merely because no mandate, professional report or remuneration exists, constitute professional misconduct by a member of the Order. No reprisal may be imposed for the report alone. This protection authorizes neither entry onto private property without consent, nor disclosure of information subject to professional secrecy without consent or an express legislative authorization, nor a knowingly false statement or one made with gross disregard for the facts. It does not deprive affected persons of correction procedures or authorities of their legal powers. This section applies to central-registry operations in the region concerned only from its legal activation; it neither suspends nor replaces hazardous-situation reporting duties or public-authority powers arising under other laws. CHAPTER V — REGULATORY POWERS SECTION 33 | ART_7VBVC0MBQ8XSNMQV | REVISION 9 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-23 21:06:51.423684 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_7VBVC0MBQ8XSNMQV In addition to the regulations provided for by the Professional Code and sections 6, 17 and 30, the board of directors may, by regulation: 1° establish standards of practice for its members; 2° determine the terms relating to the membership card; 3° determine the fields of practice, training, experience or qualifications that may be displayed on the roll; 4° regulate the records, reports, signatures, approvals, attestations and authentications of its members; 5° specify material or auxiliary operations; 6° determine the assessment methods applicable to professional attestations of training or competence; 7° determine the practice requirements applicable to the approval provided for in section 10 and the assessments referred to in section 11; 8° determine the criteria and procedures for the non-compliance regime mentioned in the first paragraph; 9° take any other measure within its jurisdiction. No regulation of the Order may: 1° create a new fundamental category of reserved activity; 2° make applicable a code or standard that is not otherwise applicable; 3° modify an applicable edition or adaptation of a code or standard; 4° modify professional rights recognized by another Act; 5° impose the Order’s code of ethics on a member of another order; 6° reserve training or teaching where it is not otherwise reserved. Within the powers conferred by the Professional Code, including powers concerning recordkeeping, preservation and transfer and practice through firms, the Order may prescribe proportionate conditions for its members’ practice within organizations. The Order neither issues general contractor licences nor disciplines members of another professional order. The board maintains the official register of organizations authorized to offer, in their own name, professional services reserved by this Act. It records each organization's identity and business number, ordinary authorization or permanent transitional entitlement under section 73, authorization status and relevant dates, and the professional delegate when required. An organization's registration never entitles it personally to perform a reserved act, which remains reserved to legally authorized individuals. The Order maintains, or causes to be maintained under its responsibility, three distinct verification directories: (1) legally public information from its membership roll, including practice status and limitations; (2) authorized organizations, including holders of permanent transitional entitlements, their status, relevant dates and, where the law permits, the designated PSI professional delegate; and (3) competent authorities, with their declared territories, fields of jurisdiction and official business contact details. A directory listing is not a technical assessment of a building; the absence of an organization does not prohibit non-reserved work or work lawful under another statutory regime. The three directories are available as an operational copy within the central registry and as a public version on a second server, physically or logically independent from the central registry filing and consultation infrastructure, with its own database and autonomous public service. The public version remains accessible during a central-registry outage; it displays the source, last verified synchronization time and currency limits. Suspensions, removals, withdrawals and restrictions are securely and verifiably synchronized as a priority. SECTION 34 | ART_S6C3T7QF2A9R5V8X | REVISION 1 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 22:47:57.662536 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_S6C3T7QF2A9R5V8X The board may, by regulation and within the Professional Code, prescribe declarations, undertakings, insurance, respondents, delegation of professional judgment, registration, verification, transfer and termination for professional organizations, subject to statutory safeguards and the permanent transitional entitlement in section 73. Solely for the ownership of voting rights, governing-body composition and quorum conditions applicable to a professional organization in the ordinary regime, the board of directors may, in a regulation on practice in organizations and multidisciplinarity, determine which persons are eligible and incorporate by reference Schedule A to the Regulation respecting the practice of the profession of advocate within a partnership or a joint-stock company and in multidisciplinarity (chapter B-1, r. 9), as amended from time to time. The board may subsequently replace that reference, adopt its own categories or otherwise amend the regulation in accordance with the procedures and approvals required by the Professional Code. This reference does not confer any professional title or reserved act, transfer disciplinary authority or derogate from the permanent acquired right cited above. It does not make any otherwise inapplicable technical code or standard applicable. SECTION 35 | ART_PBUFADGXKDEYWA1T | REVISION 19 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 19:17:44.200051 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_PBUFADGXKDEYWA1T The board of directors fixes the annual dues in accordance with section 85.1 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26), after considering the results of the advance consultation of members under section 103.1 and after consultation of members at a general meeting under section 104 of that Code. The board retains the decision-making authority conferred on it by the Code. Supplementary or special assessments, where applicable, are governed by the additional requirements and approval procedures prescribed by that Code. This authority is subject to the annual base-dues exemption for retired members under this section. The Order has one general operating fund into which professional dues, transitional and ordinary registry filing fees, lawfully collected access fees and other eligible revenues are paid. The central registry is a permanent function of the Order and has neither a separate operating fund nor a separate financial envelope. Regardless of their accounting source, these resources may be used for all legally authorized functions and expenditures of the Order. Two successive fee arrangements apply in each region: a transitional establishment fee and an ordinary filing fee, never both charged for a report already subject to the transitional fee. After regional activation, the ordinary fee also covers the other eligible standalone professional filings exhaustively listed in the regulation referred to in the third paragraph. The collective name “Order and Central Registry of OPSI Establishment and Operation Fee” grants the Order no fee-setting power. The Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act alone is empowered to prescribe by regulation, following mandatory consultation with the Order and the Office des professions du Québec, every charge connected with the central registry and the pre-registry. This exclusive authority covers the creation and definition of fee categories, their amounts, establishment and filing fees, external-access, consultation and application programming interface (API) charges where authorized by law, exemptions, collection and refund procedures, indexation and any tariff change. The regulation is subject to legally required consultations, approvals, prepublication, publication and other formalities, including those under the Regulations Act (chapter R-18.1). No fee is payable until both its statutory authority and the prescribed rate are in force. That regulation determines the initial period and rate of the transitional fee per eligible professional report and the ordinary fee per eligible standalone professional filing. It specifies the annual indexation formula, reference index, treatment of zero or negative changes, rounding, effective date and publication of the rate. Before a region’s documentary activation, only reports under paragraph 1 of section 15 may attract the transitional fee. After activation, only standalone documents under paragraphs 1 to 5 of that section may attract the ordinary fee. Mere receipt of another document or disclosure gives rise to no fee. The Order administers and collects these fees within the limits of that regulation. It may not, by regulation, resolution, directive, contract or delegation, set or increase a rate, impose a surcharge, create a fee category, alter an exemption or depart from prescribed indexation. Professional dues and members’ contributions remain governed by the Professional Code, particularly the provision on dues mentioned in the first paragraph; the board of directors’ authority over those amounts is not transferred to that Minister. Fees prescribed by that regulation form part of the general fund’s revenues. They contribute to financing the integrated public-protection regulatory scheme operated by the Order, including its institutional organization, the roll, the central registry and pre-registry, professional inspection, the syndic, discipline, administration, technological security and continuity, and professional liability insurance within the limits of section 39. The Order need not reserve those revenues for an expenditure corresponding to their source. However, setting and maintaining such fees must be supportable by a documented analysis of their purpose, fee base, the costs of the integrated regulatory scheme and the regulatory benefits or services concerned; pooling does not turn a regulatory fee into a general tax or displace proportionality review. The Order maintains one set of general accounts and analytical records identifying revenue by source, direct and shared costs by function, contributions to the group insurance plan, reimbursements, commitments, reserves and surpluses. This breakdown serves auditing, accountability and fee justification; it neither earmarks revenues nor prevents transfers between the Order’s functions. Only amounts for which separation or a specific use is expressly required by applicable law are excepted, including trust funds and legally protected assets of a separately constituted insurance or compensation fund. Recurring disparities between fee revenues and documented costs must be reviewed, and any tariff adjustment belongs exclusively to that Minister. The annual base dues payable to the Order by a retired member are $0 throughout that status; no separate funding account is created for this exemption. This Order-dues exemption does not automatically eliminate the Office des professions contribution under section 196.2 of the Professional Code or other statutory amounts. An exemption from those contributions would require express statutory authority. SECTION 36 | ART_225658CR45B921XX | REVISION 14 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 22:47:57.662536 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_225658CR45B921XX Each fee is borne by the owner of the legally covered building to which the eligible professional report or document relates. No fee applies to a building outside the scheme or to a person merely because of their status. Where one eligible standalone filing covers several buildings or owners within the scheme, regulatory arrangements provide a legally enforceable allocation of the single fee without multiplying it. As of the legally established mandatory documentary activation date for a region, the ordinary filing fee, at the rate set by the regulation made by the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act under section 35, is based on the actual number of new eligible standalone professional documents under paragraphs 1 to 5 of section 15. The fee does not depend on floor area, property value, commercial category or the number of pages, annexes, diagrams, systems or buildings covered by one document. Artificially splitting a PDSI, its diagrams, a report or evacuation directives to multiply fees is prohibited. Genuinely distinct documents independently produced or approved where required under applicable rules may each be eligible. Non-compliance notices and related follow-ups remain free of charge. A report on which the transitional registry establishment fee has already been paid and that is subsequently integrated into the registry may not be charged a second time for that integration alone. No retroactive fee arises for PDSIs, evacuation directives, assessments or attestations prepared before the activation of the region concerned. A correction, modification, partial review or retransmission of a current document already charged does not give rise to a further fee and remains tied to its original validity period; a preliminary and final report from the same verification, inspection or test form one chargeable unit. A new professional act and a genuinely distinct document remain subject to the normal conditions of the regulation referred to in the second paragraph. On every invoice or collection document, the filing fee must appear on its own line, separately from professional fees, labour charges and any fixed or all-inclusive service price, into which it must never be bundled. It may be collected on the same invoice as professional services only if clearly identified and itemized. After regional activation, that line must state ‘Filing fee — Central registry of OPSI — [applicable amount]’. Any written quotation, estimate or offer of service that may result in an eligible document must also disclose the fee on a separate line at the applicable annual rate per eligible document, with the expected quantity where ascertainable; otherwise it must state the unit rate and how the final number will be calculated. The customer must be advised before invoicing of any change in the number of eligible professional filings known to the provider, in accordance with the regulations. A professional, employer or authorized agent may collect and remit the fee on behalf of the Order as prescribed by that regulation; the fee is not their professional fees or revenue. No commercial markup or disguised administrative surcharge may be added. No right, filing, transmission, administration, receipt, notification, necessary submission access, update, supplement, follow-up or administrative closure fee may be imposed for a disclosure of reportable non-compliance, an eligible preventive warning or a substantiated report of danger requiring verification, whether during or outside a mandate, or subsequently charged to the reporter or building owner for that disclosure. Payment may not be a condition of receipt or routing. This mandatory exemption may not be displaced by regulation, resolution or directive. It does not exempt anyone from preparing and filing an independently required professional report or document or, where the standalone filing falls under paragraphs 1 to 5 of section 15, paying the regulatory fee applicable to that filing, even where it and the disclosure concern the same facts. A free disclosure does not artificially create a fee-bearing report. Fees for a separate professional service actually commissioned remain subject to ordinary rules and may not be used to delay or condition mandatory reporting. A separate new filing after the professional work has been fully repeated and approved is chargeable under section 15, even before the previous due date or without substantive changes. Changes to the current filing remain free. A historical correction to an expired document does not restore its validity or replace required periodic work. Monitoring due dates are determined under that same section. The professional documents under paragraphs 1 to 5 of section 15 are the only documentary filing categories that may be subject to the ordinary fee under section 35 and the regulation made by the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act, where they are genuinely separate professional acts and documents legally required in an activated region. A fire safety plan (PDSI) approved by a fire safety practitioner (PSI), or another person legally authorized to approve it, is a single document together with its integrated diagrams and annexes. Separately approved and filed evacuation directives or procedures count separately only where they form a genuinely independent professional document. No supporting exhibit, attachment, page, diagram, correction or retransmission attracts an additional fee; uploading a supporting exhibit does not constitute a separate chargeable professional filing. The filings and communications under paragraphs 6 to 9 of that same section, and all follow-ups and administrative closures concerning them, are entirely free of charge. SECTION 37 | ART_B39G7XT5Q26M4HZR | REVISION 6 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 20:10:45.704340 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_B39G7XT5Q26M4HZR The transitional registry establishment fee is based solely on the actual number of new eligible professional verification, inspection or testing reports produced in a region where mandatory documentary filing has not yet been legally activated. No fee arises merely from a building’s, person’s or professional’s status or from a non-compliance notice or follow-up. The preliminary and final report for the same verification, inspection or test constitute a single chargeable unit. After the Order’s legal establishment, commencement of the statutory and regulatory authority and the operational availability of systems capable of receiving, verifying and recording declarations, the transitional fee becomes payable at the rate prescribed by the regulation made by the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act under section 35 for new eligible reports produced in regions where the full documentary registry has not yet been activated. It contributes to eligible costs of the scheme without requiring complete documentary filing. During that period, the responsible professional or, as permitted by that regulation, an employer acting on the professional’s behalf shall submit a secure written monthly administrative declaration of eligible reports and amounts due. Such declarations do not require full reports, plans or PDFs to be filed, or mandatory creation of an official building record in the registry. Duties to prepare, retain and report under other legislation continue to apply. During the transition, the registry establishment fee must appear on a separate line from professional fees and service charges, labelled ‘OPSI central registry establishment fee — [applicable amount]’. Any written quotation, estimate or offer of service that may produce an eligible report states the applicable unit rate and expected quantity where ascertainable; any change in final quantity must be explained before invoicing. Collection and remittance on behalf of the Order are governed by that regulation and do not constitute fees or revenue of the professional, employer or agent. No commercial markup or disguised administrative charge may be added. As of the legally established mandatory documentary activation date for a region, no new transitional fee may arise for reports produced in that region; the ordinary filing fee under section 36 replaces it for new eligible documents. This regional termination does not end the transitional scheme in other, not-yet-activated regions or cause retroactive charges or double billing. Declarations, outstanding amounts, amendments and refunds originating earlier remain governed by applicable law until settled, without requiring full reports to be filed solely on account of the administrative pre-registry. SECTION 38 | ART_MBF12NSGDAX94EV3 | REVISION 8 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 20:48:23.533754 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_MBF12NSGDAX94EV3 The Order’s general-fund resources and surpluses remain available for all its obligations, public-protection functions, investments and justified reserves, without ring-fencing based on the origin of revenues. No amount may be distributed to members as profits, dividends, practice-volume rebates or personal financial benefits. Following year-end closing, approval of audited statements and provision for debts, refunds, obligations, commitments and necessary reserves, a net surplus may be paid to the Fondation de l’Ordre des praticiens en sécurité incendie designated in this section and identified under section 58, only to the extent such a payment is legally authorized and compatible with the Order’s purposes. Such a payment may neither displace mandatory expenditures nor serve to justify regulatory fees in excess of what their legal basis permits. Each year the Order substantiates its regulatory-fee revenues against the costs of the integrated regulatory scheme and submits any necessary tariff adjustment to the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act. No transfer is made unless the Foundation is legally entitled to receive it. The beneficiary foundation for surpluses from resources lawfully free of restrictions is expressly designated by this Act as the “Fondation de l’Ordre des praticiens en sécurité incendie”. It is separate from the Order and has its own board of directors. It is intended to result from amendment of the existing promoting non-profit’s name and constitutive purposes, in compliance with the formalities of its actual constituting law, or, if that cannot be done, from incorporation of one new not-for-profit legal person under the applicable general law as provided by the statutory requirements cited above. Its purposes must be exclusively compatible with charitable status: assisting people and families affected by fire, supporting recovery from fire-related loss, and providing fire-safety prevention and education activities yielding genuine public benefit. It exercises none of the Order’s admission, regulatory, professional-inspection or discipline powers and confers no private benefit on members. It must apply separately for registered charity status with the Canada Revenue Agency, without any guarantee of that status or authorization to issue official donation receipts. Net interest on general trust accounts is earmarked for direct remittance to it under section 40 and does not form part of registry fee proceeds. No transfer is made to a foundation that is not legally identified, established and authorized to receive it. The regulation referred to in the third paragraph of section 35 governs monthly declarations and remittances, invoicing, collection, analytical reporting, reserves, refunds and corrections relating to regulatory fees. Such reporting requirements do not earmark revenue. Amounts subject to a trust regime or a legally separate fund remain governed by their respective legislation. Surpluses and Foundation transfers remain subject to this Act and other applicable laws. GST and QST apply only where required by tax law; this Act creates no tax exemption. SECTION 39 | ART_0PPH1JF08UH0926N | REVISION 4 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-18 18:58:08.854258 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_0PPH1JF08UH0926N Every member who practises the profession must participate in the group professional liability insurance contract entered into by the Order, subject to exemptions expressly provided by regulation for members who perform no professional activities. The board of directors adopts, in accordance with the Professional Code, a regulation determining the minimum terms of the plan, coverage limits, deductibles, post-practice protection, categories requiring complementary coverage and funding arrangements. The Order may pay all or part of the premiums, contributions, administration expenses and other eligible costs of its group professional liability plan from its general operating fund, without distinguishing the source of the revenues credited to that fund. Despite section 85.2 of the Professional Code, solely to the extent necessary to make such payments, the board need not apportion among members the part of the costs actually paid by the Order; it shall nevertheless establish the plan’s full cost and apportion any remaining portion it determines must be paid directly by members or classes of members according to that section’s powers and criteria. Any contribution charged to a member shall be shown separately from base annual dues. This section does not waive mandatory coverage, alter supervisory powers or solvency requirements, or authorize the use of legally separate assets of an insurance fund established under section 86.1 of the Code. SECTION 40 | ART_A80J8C0B4M7VKZJ8 | REVISION 11 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 20:48:23.533754 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_A80J8C0B4M7VKZJ8 For the purposes of sections 89 and 89.1 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26), the board must establish by regulation a trust regime strictly limited to advances for professional services in general trust accounts. No special trust account is permitted. Actual authorization to receive or hold an advance remains suspended until the prior accounting, oversight and compensation safeguards in the two applicable regulations have lawfully entered into force and their operation has been verified; without them, receipt of trust advances remains prohibited. Any advance fee so received remains in trust until the corresponding professional services have actually been rendered and invoiced. A member may withdraw only the portion of the advance that has become earned in respect of services actually rendered and invoiced. Any unearned amount must be refunded to the client. The member shall maintain separate accounting for each client identifying amounts received, withdrawals, invoices to which they are applied, refunds and the balance held in trust. Net interest and other net income earned on general trust accounts belong to neither the member nor the client, subject to any rights recognized by applicable law. After deduction of only the account charges authorized by the trust-account regulation made in accordance with section 40, they shall be remitted directly to the Fondation de l’Ordre des praticiens en sécurité incendie, designated by section 38 and identified and lawfully entitled to receive those amounts in accordance with section 58, for the charitable purposes so provided. Such interest never passes through the Order’s single operating fund and is recorded separately so its remittance can be audited. If the Foundation cannot yet lawfully receive it, that interest shall remain separately identifiable and held under the rules governing trust accounts, without transfer to the single fund, until direct remittance becomes lawful. The board of directors shall, by regulation and in accordance with section 89 of the Professional Code, determine the rules governing the opening, operation, control, bookkeeping, reconciliation, inspection, withdrawal, refund and transfer of interest applicable to general trust accounts. The regulation may not authorize a special trust account. The board of directors shall also, in accordance with section 89.1 of the Professional Code, determine the indemnification procedure applicable where an amount held in trust is used for a purpose other than that for which it was remitted and, where applicable, the rules governing the establishment, administration and investment of an indemnity fund. Trust mechanisms and the assets of any legally constituted compensation fund remain separate from the general fund to the extent required by the Professional Code and applicable regulations. Where legally authorized, establishment or replenishment of a compensation fund may be financed using the general fund; once lawfully allocated, the assets of the compensation fund remain governed by that fund’s own rules. The relevant regulations must be made, approved and published under the provisions cited above and sections 95 and 95.2 of the Code and related procedures. Necessary financial parameters, including available compensation resources and any chosen cap, must be placed in effective regulatory provisions based on documented assessment before an individual authorization is issued. An administrative resolution alone cannot authorize possession of trust money or alter a regulatory cap. This financial-protection requirement does not prohibit financing based on the accounting origin of the Order’s general revenues. SECTION 41 | ART_BDNBK2G181DW3WGF | REVISION 6 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 20:48:23.533754 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_BDNBK2G181DW3WGF The Government may, by regulation made after consulting the Order, the Office des professions du Québec and the professional orders concerned, prescribe interprofessional coordination procedures required to implement registry administrative obligations under sections 16, 15, 27 to 30 and 43. The regulation specifies minimum identifying information for legally authorized professionals, verification of authorization, authentication of filings, administrative corrections and secure referral of suspected breaches to the authority having jurisdiction. Those procedures also apply to legally authorized professionals from other orders and may not condition an activity already permitted by law on OPSI authorization. Where verification reveals reasonable grounds to suspect professional misconduct, the matter is addressed under the verification and referral provisions cited in the first paragraph; only the disciplinary authority of the professional’s own order decides on disciplinary steps under its own regime. OPSI acquires no disciplinary jurisdiction over that professional. The regulation may not create an offence, disciplinary sanction or restriction on professional practice without a statutory basis. Any amendment to another order’s professional scope or disciplinary mechanisms requires the legislative authority otherwise applicable. SECTION 42 | ART_T4KM6C7BF7W50TKZ | REVISION 8 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_T4KM6C7BF7W50TKZ The Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act may, by regulation: 1° determine the categories of external persons and bodies that may consult the registry, subject to the limits set out in sections 19 to 25; (2) determine their access rights and purposes without expanding insurer access beyond the information expressly permitted by section 23, or access by delegated central labour organizations and independent associations beyond the premises, purposes and information permitted by section 24; 3° provide for delegation of access management; 4° establish security, confidentiality and audit obligations; 5° determine conditions for suspension or withdrawal; Charges for external access, consultation and APIs are governed exclusively by the regulation made under section 35; this section creates no competing fee-setting power. CHAPTER VI — VERIFICATION AND ENFORCEMENT SECTION 43 | ART_ZBESPKQQP6YSDXLD | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 02:33:50.091612 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_ZBESPKQQP6YSDXLD The Office des professions du Québec may designate a person responsible for verifying compliance, by an authorized person who is not a member of the Order, with obligations relating to: 1° filing in the registry; 2° certificates prohibited by section 8, excluding supplementary certifications duly permitted by regulation and issued in accordance with it; 3° non-compliance notices; 4° changes in classification or status; 5° regulatory criteria necessary for those obligations. That person may require the information reasonably necessary for the verification. That person is bound by confidentiality. Verification is confined to administrative obligations actually imposed on the person by this Act. A request for information identifies its object and statutory basis in writing, allows a reasonable time to respond except in a legally justified emergency and does not compel disclosure of protected information beyond what law permits. The person’s observations and response are included in the verification record. A person lawfully subject to such a request responds within the limits of this section. The verification and its resulting administrative findings neither amount to a disciplinary finding nor exercise disciplinary authority over that person. The Order verifies compliance by its members with this Act and the regulations applicable to them in accordance with the Professional Code. A member’s professional duties remain personal even where an employer or firm physically keeps the records. The Order’s power of verification does not automatically make it custodian of its members’ private archives. Where a verification concerns a member of another order and reveals reasonable grounds to believe that professional misconduct has occurred, the necessary information is transmitted to that order. The Order exercises no disciplinary power over members of another professional order. A referral identifies the applicable provisions, verified facts, strictly necessary records and any observations received. It is transmitted securely, subject to professional secrecy and personal-information safeguards. The receiving order independently decides on any action within its jurisdiction; a referral is not a finding of misconduct. CHAPTER VII — OFFENCES SECTION 44 | ART_5Z596DZ59EY9FG2Q | REVISION 7 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 02:33:50.091612 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_5Z596DZ59EY9FG2Q Without limiting the penal provisions of the Professional Code (chapter C-26), every person who contravenes one of the following express obligations under this Act commits an offence and is liable, for each offence, to the fine under section 188 of that Code: (1) carrying out without right an activity reserved by sections 7, 8, 10, 11 or 27, subject to the legally applicable entitlements and exceptions, in particular those provided in section 9 and in the provisions cited above; (2) knowingly failing to file a professional document required by sections 15 and 16 after documentary filing obligations have come into force in the relevant region; (3) knowingly failing, contrary to the reporting and classification requirements in Chapter IV, to file a mandatory notice or change of classification when the facts establishing the duty are sufficiently known; (4) knowingly consulting or extracting registry or audit-log information without right, contrary to the access limits in sections 19 to 26; (5) knowingly modifying, destroying, disabling or attempting to bypass an audit-log entry contrary to section 14; (6) issuing a certificate prohibited by section 8, subject to supplementary certifications authorized by regulation, or a reserved professional attestation without the entitlement required under section 12; (7) retaliating or knowingly preventing compliance with a statutory filing or reporting duty in contravention of section 32; (8) knowingly and without lawful excuse refusing to provide information required under section 43 or intentionally obstructing a verification lawfully authorized by that section. (9) knowingly falsifying, with intent to mislead the recipient, a report, approval, attestation, non-compliance notice, follow-up or reclassification whose production, authentication or filing is governed by the professional filing and non-compliance provisions referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this section, or knowingly filing such a falsified document; (10) knowingly representing a document as signed or approved by a legally authorized professional when no such signature or approval was given, contrary to the approval and authentication rules for professional documents referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this section; Unlawful use of a title, initials or designation protected by section 4 is governed by sections 188 and 188.1 of the Professional Code under their respective conditions. No additional offence with identical constituent elements is created. Offences under paragraphs (9) and (10) of section 44 require knowledge of the falsification or absence of approval and intent to mislead; a good-faith clerical error alone does not constitute either offence. No new regulatory offence may be created without sufficient statutory authority. The rules for natural and other persons, repeat-offence penalties and prosecutions are governed by the Professional Code, particularly the penal provisions cited in the first paragraph and its section 189, and by the Code of Penal Procedure (chapter C-25.1). Nothing in the provisions defining those offences or this section confers on OPSI the disciplinary authority of another professional order. CHAPTER VIII — AMENDING PROVISIONS SECTION 45 | ART_2MSRY1RYJ86C4W98 | REVISION 3 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 19:45:44.016171 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_2MSRY1RYJ86C4W98 Section 32 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) is amended by replacing, in the first paragraph, “sage-femme, géologue ou comptable professionnel agréé ni utiliser” with “sage-femme, géologue, comptable professionnel agréé ou praticien en sécurité incendie ni utiliser”. The quoted French words are those of the authoritative French legislative text. SECTION 46 | ART_YA2Z93UZRYQYW6WV | REVISION 4 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 15:46:27.014601 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_YA2Z93UZRYQYW6WV Schedule I to that Code is amended in the first paragraph: (1) by replacing the period at the end of subparagraph 25 with a semicolon; (2) by adding the following after subparagraph 25: “26° l’Ordre professionnel des praticiens en sécurité incendie du Québec.” SECTION 47 | ART_6B82G5P4W3H1NT9Q | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 14:14:18.660042 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_6B82G5P4W3H1NT9Q Section 5 of the Engineers Act (chapter I-9) is amended by adding the following paragraph after paragraph 14: “(15) prevent a professional technologist entered on the roll of the Ordre des technologues professionnels du Québec from carrying out, on the same conditions as an engineer and to the extent expressly authorized under the Fire Safety Practitioners Act, the professional activities provided for in that Act, including the fire-safety inspections, verifications and tests referred to in section 8, the preparation, signing, revision, correction, retention and filing of related professional reports, opinions and other documents, and the approval, revision and correction of fire safety plans, evacuation directions and procedures, and the floor plans and diagrams forming part of them, as referred to in section 10, in accordance with the competency, independence, responsibility and traceability requirements set out in that Act and its section 9.” This amendment does not confer a general authorization to carry out design, calculations, sizing, inspection of an engineering work or supervision of work reserved under the Engineers Act where those activities are distinct from the activities expressly authorized by the Fire Safety Practitioners Act. Other professional Acts and regulations remain applicable. A floor plan or evacuation diagram referred to in section 10 does not eliminate the authorizations required for any separate design or engineering activity that its contents may entail. SECTION 48 | ART_DFSTL5CQ8PRKHFGY | REVISION 9 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_DFSTL5CQ8PRKHFGY The Insurers Act (chapter A-32.1) is amended by inserting, after section 50, the following: “50.1. Where an authorized insurer takes into account, in establishing or modifying a premium, a non-compliance requiring action notice to which it has access under the Fire Safety Practitioners Act, any premium increase specifically attributable to that notice may apply only during the period in which the notice retains that status. The increase may not apply to a period before the date on which the notice became accessible to the insurer or before the date on which the insurer became aware of it. Where a notice results from an incidental discovery, before applying a premium increase specifically attributable to that notice, the insurer must reach the insured or an authorized representative by telephone, explain the existence of the notice, the nature of the non-compliance, the recorded correction deadline and the contemplated increase, and then grant a grace period of three complete days, meaning seventy-two hours from that conversation. An unsuccessful call or voicemail does not start the period. The insurer records the date and time of the conversation and sends written confirmation of this information and the grace-period expiry. No premium increase specifically attributable to that notice may apply during the period or retroactively for that period. At its expiry and before applying any increase, the insurer checks the current notice status. If the non-compliance is then validly being addressed or the notice is closed, no such increase may apply. If it still requires action, an increase may take effect only after the grace period expires and subject to the other conditions of this section. Any new increase based on an incidental notice returning to the status requiring action requires a new telephone conversation and grace period. The grace period concerns only an insurance premium increase attributable to the notice. It does not defer filing, the recorded correction deadline, urgent communications or required safety measures. Implementing this protection gives the insurer no access to protected registry documents or identities. It ceases to have effect as of the date and time when the notice ceases to have the status ‘non-compliance requiring action’, including because it is reclassified as ‘non-compliance under documented action’ or closed by a correction notice. Where all or part of that increase was paid in advance for a period after that date, the insurer shall, within 30 days after demonstrable receipt of the electronic notification provided for by the regulation on external access to the central registry of OPSI, made under section 42 of the Act respecting fire safety practitioners, grant the insured a credit or refund calculated pro rata for the remaining period. If the same non-compliance again acquires the status ‘non-compliance requiring action’, a new increase attributable to that notice may apply only for that new period and may not take effect before the new notice is accessible to the insurer and the insurer is aware of it. A non-compliance under documented action, a corrected and closed non-compliance, or the history of such a non-compliance may not, by itself, justify maintaining, renewing or reimposing an increase attributable to the registry notice. The insurer may not charge the insured any fee attributable to consulting the central registry of OPSI or receiving a notification from that registry. This section does not prevent an insurer from taking into account a risk factor of which it becomes aware independently of the registry and which it may otherwise consider in accordance with law.” Obligations under the documentary registry regime and its transmissions apply to a building only upon legal activation of its region. Existing authority powers and duties and obligations imposed by other legislation remain unchanged. SECTION 49 | ART_YJT40NB23FSQHSD5 | REVISION 6 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 19:45:44.016171 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_YJT40NB23FSQHSD5 The Act respecting the distribution of financial products and services (chapter D-9.2) is amended by inserting, after section 84, the following: “84.1. A firm, independent partnership, independent representative or damage insurance representative may not charge a client any fee, remuneration or other amount attributable, in whole or in part, to consulting the central registry of OPSI established by the Fire Safety Practitioners Act, receiving a notification from that registry or the administrative processing of such consultation or notification.” Obligations under the documentary registry regime and its transmissions apply to a building only upon legal activation of its region. Existing authority powers and duties and obligations imposed by other legislation remain unchanged. SECTION 50 | ART_A5TK3PXHEL8J80D0 | REVISION 9 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 19:45:44.016171 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_A5TK3PXHEL8J80D0 The Coroners Act (chapter C-68.01) is amended by inserting, after section 48.1, the following: “48.2. A coroner conducting an investigation or inquest under this Act may, solely for the purposes of that investigation or inquest, consult in read-only mode the relevant and necessary records and information in the central registry of OPSI established by the Fire Safety Practitioners Act, in accordance with the conditions and limits in section 21 of that Act. The coroner has the same consultation rights and arrangements as duly authorized members of police forces conducting an official investigation, subject to any legally required authorization. Such access may include, within the scope of the matter concerned, professional reports, fire safety plans, non-compliance notices, correction notices, supporting documents, prior versions, change histories and relevant audit-log entries, including records of access to the audit log. Another investigation or inquest does not, in itself, authorize general or exploratory consultation. The Ordre des praticiens en sécurité incendie du Québec shall respond without undue delay to a justified request by a coroner, making authorized documents available securely or, where permitted by law, transmitting readable and usable copies of the necessary records. Accesses, consultations and transmissions are entered in the audit log together with the identity of the user, their organization, the reference of the investigation or inquest and the information consulted, under section 14 of the Fire Safety Practitioners Act. Information obtained remains subject to legally applicable rules of confidentiality, use, disclosure and retention. This section creates no additional investigative power and does not restrict the other powers conferred on a coroner by this Act.” Obligations under the documentary registry regime and its transmissions apply to a building only upon legal activation of its region. Existing authority powers and duties and obligations imposed by other legislation remain unchanged. SECTION 51 | ART_FFPUDEG628HFQDS6 | REVISION 4 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 19:45:44.016171 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_FFPUDEG628HFQDS6 The Police Act (chapter P-13.1) is amended by inserting, after section 49, the following: “49.1. A duly authorized member of a police force governed by this Act is entitled, solely for the purposes of a specific official investigation falling within the member’s statutory duties, to consult records, documents, information, amendment histories and entries in the audit log of the central registry of OPSI established under the Fire Safety Practitioners Act that are relevant and necessary to that investigation. That right of consultation is subject to the same conditions and restrictions as apply to coroners under the Fire Safety Practitioners Act, including identification and authorization of the applicant, justification of the investigation, any legally required authorizations, limitations on the information consulted, confidentiality and logging of every access and consultation. Access is read-only. It permits no amendment, deletion or alteration of information recorded in the registry and confers no general, permanent or exploratory access unrelated to a specific investigation. This section confers no additional investigative power and is subject to the other laws governing the investigation.” SECTION 52 | ART_M2A1SC79RWTFHSQK | REVISION 7 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 19:45:44.016171 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_M2A1SC79RWTFHSQK The Act respecting land use planning and development (chapter A-19.1) is amended by inserting the following after section 119: “119.1. A municipality issuing a permit authorizing construction of a new building covered by the Act respecting fire safety practitioners must transmit to the central registry of OPSI the prescribed information necessary to create the project record and open its official record in the registry, upon issuance of the permit and in accordance with the procedures prescribed by government regulation. Permit information is also communicated to the competent authorities concerned, directly or through an integrated registry transmission mechanism. A competent authority may confirm, supplement or correct the corresponding record within its responsibilities. Where the permit issuer also exercises the jurisdiction concerned, one traceable transmission satisfies both destinations without duplicate reporting. It also transmits, in the cases and time limits prescribed, reliable administrative information relating to completion or occupancy of the building, cancellation of the permit or abandonment of the project, authorization to demolish and actual completion of demolition, and relevant changes to information previously transmitted. The Government may by regulation prescribe the categories of buildings and authorizations, information, time limits, formats, electronic transmission methods, acknowledgements, corrections and matching procedures, including through an administrative interface or secure API, avoiding duplicate reporting where the same information may lawfully be obtained from a reliable administrative source. This section changes no condition for issuing a permit, municipal inspection power or substantive building oversight obligation.” Obligations under the documentary registry regime and its transmissions apply to a building only upon legal activation of its region. Existing authority powers and duties and obligations imposed by other legislation remain unchanged. SECTION 53 | ART_62A9D8PSKNMV9VM8 | REVISION 11 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 20:48:23.533754 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_62A9D8PSKNMV9VM8 The Fire Safety Act (chapter S-3.4) is amended by inserting the following after section 35: “35.1. A local authority, regional authority, intermunicipal board or other public body legally exercising jurisdiction to enforce fire safety requirements in relation to a building covered by the Act respecting fire safety practitioners must declare to the central registry of OPSI the buildings and regulatory domains for which it exercises that jurisdiction. For each field of its jurisdiction, the authority declares, under the applicable legal requirements, whether the building is subject to its filing or monitoring obligations. Different declarations made by several authorities for the same building may coexist and do not, of themselves, constitute a jurisdictional dispute. It may have a missing building record created without producing a new permit, update administrative references it holds, report a demolition, and request correction, merger or subdivision of the building’s shared identity. Within the prescribed time limits, it also declares any new assignment, change, delegation, applicable intermunicipal agreement or cessation of jurisdiction, without having to name a successor. For each building declared, it specifies the areas of its jurisdiction and reports changes in accordance with procedures prescribed by government regulation. The Government may by regulation prescribe information, time limits, electronic methods, rules for administratively associating declarations with buildings, correction procedures and acknowledgement mechanisms for declarations under this section, including by API or administrative interface, so as to limit redundant reporting. A registry declaration does not create, change or remove legal jurisdiction. The registry does not resolve disputes between authorities. This section does not expand any legal investigation, intervention or enforcement powers of authorities or of the Régie du bâtiment du Québec. Receipt of a notice by a competent authority does not, under this section, create any new duty to investigate, process, correct, transfer, monitor or intervene. These limits do not affect the decision on a challenge to reportability on unchanged facts expressly provided for in section 31 of the Act respecting fire safety practitioners. Other existing statutory powers and duties remain unaffected. The Order maintains a trace of filings and routing without exercising the powers of public authorities. ” SECTION 54 | ART_8ZCWJLZ2Y9G030PA | REVISION 7 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 19:45:44.016171 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_8ZCWJLZ2Y9G030PA The Fire Safety Act is also amended by inserting the following after section 35.1 enacted by section 53: “35.2. The central registry of OPSI makes non-compliance requiring action notices available to authorities with a legal right of access and, where the conditions for supplementary routing to the Régie under the Act respecting fire safety practitioners are met, to the Régie du bâtiment du Québec in the relevant areas, by building and declared area of jurisdiction. It provides a dashboard showing new notices marked by a flag, flags explicitly confirmed as seen, notices actually consulted and acknowledgments explicitly confirmed. Each event is timestamped and linked to its actor where identifiable. The Minister responsible for the administration of this Act may by regulation set maximum time limits binding the registry administrator for making notices available, initiating supplementary electronic notifications, detecting failed deliveries and issuing technical reminders for notices not yet consulted. The regulation may specify technical procedures for updating and correcting notification contacts and consultation states in the registry. Neither notice availability, display of a flag, nor the absence of consultation or acknowledgment creates, solely under this section, a duty for any authority to consult a notice, confirm receipt, analyze it, investigate, transfer a file or intervene within any set time. No regulation under this section may create such a duty. Powers and duties already imposed under other laws remain unchanged.” Obligations under the documentary registry regime and its transmissions apply to a building only upon legal activation of its region. Existing authority powers and duties and obligations imposed by other legislation remain unchanged. SECTION 55 | ART_DY90FVSVQ236F3BV | REVISION 7 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-22 19:45:44.016171 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_DY90FVSVQ236F3BV The Building Act (chapter B-1.1) is amended by inserting the following after section 111: “111.1. Solely for administrative identification in the central registry of OPSI established under the Act respecting fire safety practitioners, the Régie determines a persistent dispute between competent authorities concerning a requested merger, subdivision or correction of administrative records affecting the shared identity of a building. An authority concerned may refer the matter to the Régie after a documented attempt to reach consensus. The Régie invites the other authorities concerned to make representations and renders a written, reasoned decision communicated to the parties and the registry as prescribed by government regulation. Its decision concerns only the administrative representation of buildings and the continuity of their records and administrative associations in the registry. It creates, changes or removes no legal jurisdiction, determines no regulatory applicability, and gives the Régie no additional general power to investigate, supervise or sanction. Until that decision, existing administrative records, professional filings and mandatory notices remain usable. The decision is recorded in the permanent history and authorizes neither deletion of historical data nor improper reassignment of an administrative identity.” Obligations under the documentary registry regime and its transmissions apply to a building only upon legal activation of its region. Existing authority powers and duties and obligations imposed by other legislation remain unchanged. CHAPTER IX — TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS SECTION 56 | ART_2Q2TBBZ75YASYFMD | REVISION 13 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-28 02:38:13.425242 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_2Q2TBBZ75YASYFMD The Order’s first board consists of eight directors including its president: six directors drawn from the promoting non-profit identified in section 58 and two directors appointed by the Office des professions du Québec under section 78 of the Professional Code. On the reference date set by regulation, the promoter’s board identifies by certified resolution the six directors duly serving on its board and, where appropriate, an ordered list of eligible substitutes under its own rules. Only persons who demonstrate at least 24 months of relevant professional experience, totalling at least 1,800 hours of actual practice in duties directly related to the activities governed by this Act, may initially be designated to one of these six seats. This experience may have been acquired as an employee, as a self-employed worker, or within a public or private organization. The duration and nature of the experience must be substantiated by verifiable supporting documents, including employer attestations, time records, contracts, work orders or professional reports. It promptly sends the registers, consents, proof of residence, declarations of interest and other required records to the Office des professions du Québec. The Office des professions du Québec verifies compliance with these conditions before making its recommendation. For this purpose it also examines individual eligibility, independence and regional requirements and obtains any necessary further information. Its recommendation must be in writing and give reasons. Only the Government may formally designate the six initial directors, by an order in council made on the Office’s recommendation and published in the Gazette officielle du Québec. The promoter’s resolution is a proposed slate, not an appointment to the Order’s board; no seat is acquired before the order in council and express acceptance of office. By an express exception strictly limited to the first board, the prior roll-registration and electoral-candidacy requirements in sections 66.1 and 76 of the Professional Code do not bar the initial designation of a director from the promoter who is not yet a member of the Order. Solely for initial governance, these directors are deemed elected without a general election; the exception ends for every regular election and regular term. Notwithstanding the admission requirements prescribed by regulation, the six founding directors drawn from the promoting non-profit who are initially designated to the first board and who meet the experience and documentary-proof requirements set out in the second paragraph, become, upon taking office, holders by operation of law of the Order’s single permit, without an examination, internship or additional prior-learning recognition process. They are entered on the roll of the Order in accordance with the mandatory requirements of the Professional Code, the Charter of the French language and other applicable laws. This admission results directly from this Act rather than from a regulatory admission pathway. A proposal or designation to the board alone, without proof that the experience requirements set out in the second paragraph are met, grants no permit, protected title or right to perform reserved acts. This exceptional measure applies neither to the two directors appointed by the Office des professions du Québec nor to replacements or successors of the six founding directors, even where a replacement occurs during the first board’s term. It does not waive integrity or independence checks, conflict-of-interest rules, disqualifications or restrictions or suspensions of practice rights. The six founding directors remain subject to all professional obligations, including mandatory ethics training, continuing education, professional ethics, professional inspection and discipline. The president is selected from those six directors by secret ballot under the legally adopted first-board procedure and does not occupy an additional seat. The two Office-appointed directors exercise their statutory powers and obligations under the Code. As of constitution, the six promoter directors must collectively come from at least four of Québec’s seventeen administrative regions, with at least one director residing outside the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal. Geographic qualifications are established by verifiable declarations; replacements seek to preserve regional diversity without automatically invalidating the board during a temporary vacancy. After consulting the Office des professions du Québec, the Government prescribes by regulation the reference date, submission of supporting records, objective checks, interest declarations and procedures by which the Office recommends candidates. The Government then makes an individual order in council designating the six promoter-derived directors after considering the Office’s written recommendation; the order states when their terms begin and is published in the Gazette officielle du Québec. The Office separately appoints the other two directors under the provision of the Code on those appointments mentioned in the first paragraph. In case of refusal, death, ineligibility, incapacity or vacancy, the Office examines an eligible person proposed under the promoter’s rules or drawn from its reserve list and recommends a replacement to the Government; only a further order in council may fill one of the six initial seats. Evidence of residence, regional representation, incompatibilities and consent are verified again. This special Government designation power and the narrow exception to the electoral requirements cited above exist only if the legislature expressly enacts this section. The first election of the six member-elected directors and their assumption of office must occur no later than one year after the first board takes office. The first board and secretary organize admissions, the election notice, nominations and voting early enough to meet that deadline, independently of the registry timetable. By a limited derogation from the minimum term in section 63 of the Professional Code, the six initial directors deemed elected cease to hold those mandates when the elected directors take office, without automatic extension beyond that year. The Office retains its powers under the Code if the election is not held as required by law. The two Office-appointed seats remain separate and governed by the Code. Former directors may stand if they meet the ordinary conditions, without reserved seats. The first board limits its decisions to pressing statutory obligations, immediate public protection and acts indispensable to establishing the Order’s operations and holding the election. It promptly identifies potentially eligible persons, invites them to apply for membership, facilitates admission under the statutory conditions and holds the democratic election of the board as soon as reasonably possible, without waiting for the one-year maximum. Policy choices and commitments that can wait are left to the elected board; the first board records why its decisions are necessary. SECTION 57 | ART_G0DJE2E1PBPX2SAR | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 23:49:53.082409 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_G0DJE2E1PBPX2SAR The six promoter directors undertake to leave their director and officer positions with that non-profit upon completion of transfer operations, no later than before its transformation into the Foundation takes effect. Resignations are coordinated with the lawful appointment of successor directors to maintain corporate continuity. Transactions between the Order and the promoter remain subject to independence, conflict-of-interest, creditor-protection and donor-restriction requirements. The constitutive provisions take effect on the date set by the government without awaiting operation of the full registry. The first board begins functioning as soon as legally possible and exercises the powers needed, within the initial mandate under section 56, for initial admission, the roll of members, ethics, professional inspection, discipline and establishment of the administrative pre-registry. Under a particular express statutory authority, after consulting the Office, the Government may prepare and make the initial regulations needed to establish the Order before its constitution, within the express limits of this Act. Those instruments must identify their enabling authority, be published and take effect no sooner than legally permitted, concurrently with constitution or under a published timetable. Mandatory consultation, approval and publication rules continue to apply unless a precise statutory exception is expressly enacted. Initial rules subsequently falling within the Order board’s jurisdiction remain amendable by that board under sections 95, 95.0.1, 95.1, 95.2 and 95.3 of the Code as applicable to each subject; instruments under the authority of the Government, the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act, the Minister responsible for the administration of the Professional Code, the Minister responsible for the administration of the Building Act (chapter B-1.1) or the Office, according to the applicable enabling provision may be amended only by the legally empowered authority. Solely for initial regulations made by the Government before constitution under this particular authority, and only if this statutory provision is enacted, the advance notice to members required before adoption by the board under the last of the Code provisions cited above is replaced by advance publication of the draft for at least thirty days and documented consultation with the Office and affected stakeholders. This transitional rule does not authorize an as-yet non-existent board to act, does not waive legally required publication, examination or approval, and expires upon constitution of the Order. Any later enactment or amendment by its board remains subject to that same provision of the Code where applicable. SECTION 58 | ART_57PASH9RV2A4XMZ3 | REVISION 4 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_57PASH9RV2A4XMZ3 The promoting OPSI not-for-profit is an existing incorporated legal person, whose current legal name is “[CURRENT REGISTERED LEGAL NAME TO BE VERIFIED]” and whose Québec enterprise number is “[NEQ TO BE VERIFIED]”. Its actual constituting statute and registration particulars must be verified before this provision is finalized. Before amending its name and purposes to become the Fondation de l’Ordre des praticiens en sécurité incendie, the organization prepares a certified inventory of its assets, agreements, debts, refunds owed, commitments and restricted donations. With the necessary internal resolutions, approvals and consents, it transfers to the new Order its net assets legally available for transfer for the Order’s establishment and operations, including amounts whose restrictions permit that use. The transfer protects creditor rights, gift restrictions and sufficient resources to discharge obligations that are not assumed by the Order. Contracts and liabilities may be assigned only with the required consents. Nothing is distributed to members or directors. After those authorized transfers, the existing promoting corporation adopts, under its verified constitutive statute and internal rules, the resolutions required to change its name to “Fondation de l’Ordre des praticiens en sécurité incendie” and amend its purposes to the charitable objectives in section 38. It obtains all required approvals and amendment documents. If governed by Part III of Québec’s Companies Act (chapter C-38), it applies for supplementary letters patent to amend its purposes and, where appropriate, its name; if federally incorporated, it follows the amendment procedures under the applicable federal Act. The formalities must be completed sufficiently in advance of provisions requiring the new name and before any amounts are remitted to the Foundation. The same legal person then remains in existence under its amended name, without dissolution, liquidation, amalgamation or statutory continuance. It retains obligations and restrictions that could not be assigned to the Order and does not retain assets validly transferred to it. If the existing promoting corporation cannot lawfully amend its name or objects for the Foundation’s mission, a new not-for-profit legal person is to be incorporated under the applicable general corporate law, not established automatically by this Act. Section 218 of the Companies Act and Québec enterprise registrar formalities must be verified if incorporation under Part III of Québec law is chosen; federal incorporation formalities apply if the federal route is selected. No new person is incorporated if the existing corporation has validly completed the required changes. No assets or money may be transferred to the Foundation until its legal identity, valid amendment or incorporation, and entitlement to receive the property have been established. Any disposition of remaining assets or possible winding-up of the original corporation remains subject to creditors, refunds and restricted gifts. The Foundation, whether the result of a lawful amendment of the existing promoting corporation’s name and purposes or, subsidiarily, a new incorporation under general law, is legally separate from the Order and has its own board. When its new mission begins, it aligns its governance and operations with the charitable objectives mentioned in the second paragraph, ends incompatible institutional advocacy, avoids private benefits and respects restrictions on existing gifts. It applies independently for registered charity status with the Canada Revenue Agency. Neither this Act nor a decision of the Québec government guarantees that status or a right to issue official donation receipts. The six initial promoter-derived seats are reserved for persons who, on the reference date, are serving directors and eligible regular members of the promoting non-profit. An associate member, consultative observer, donor or partner has no claim, solely by reason of that status, to one of these six seats or to designation to it. Membership in or participation with the nonprofit, regardless of category, grants no automatic entitlement to a permit, entry on the future Order’s roll or a board seat. A former observer or associate may nevertheless apply separately for professional admission if they independently meet the statutory and regulatory requirements; their former status alone is not a permanent bar. The two Office des professions appointments remain exclusively within its statutory authority and disqualification rules; the nonprofit has no appointment right over them. SECTION 59 | ART_AHM5HGC27HXQKSHX | REVISION 6 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-23 21:06:51.423684 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_AHM5HGC27HXQKSHX The board of directors may, by transitional regulation, establish a special regime for: 1° initial admission based in particular on experience, training, certifications, professional achievements and demonstrated competencies; 2° recognition of prior learning; 3° internship or supplementary training; 4° admission as a transitional member holding the single permit, with defined activities and limitations; 5° temporary continuation of activities lawfully carried out before this Act comes into force. The regulation determines the application periods, criteria, conditions, renewal procedures and limits of those measures. Transitional admission and the rules needed for initial entry on the roll must be effective before new independent practice rights are granted. Every entrant must satisfy the initial ethics requirement in section 24 of the admission regulation or remain subject to an expressly authorized temporary practice restriction until completion or lawful recognition of equivalent training. During the initial admission regime, the Order may admit as a transitional member a person whose recognized competencies permit limited practice although not all conditions for regular admission have yet been met. That person holds the single permit, is entered on the roll with a verifiable indication of status and limitations, and may practise independently and sign only acts expressly authorized within their competencies and the conditions set by the Order. Transitional membership may be maintained or renewed following reassessment, without an automatic maximum duration. Progression to regular membership depends on demonstrated competencies and applicable requirements, not merely the passage of time. A reasoned refusal of progression does not automatically terminate transitional status where the conditions for maintaining it remain satisfied, subject to applicable remedies. Limitations, suspensions and withdrawals remain possible under the applicable rules. The permanent retired-member status is distinct from inactive and transitional status. A retired member remains on the roll but may neither perform reserved activities nor present as an active practitioner, and remains accountable for past professional acts. The regulation made under section 6 governs annual declarations, zero base Order dues and reinstatement of practice rights upon meeting objective requirements without repeating initial admission, subject to lawful restrictions. No maximum duration of a training pathway or internship necessary for transitional admission is set by this Act. Once an activity becomes reserved, the transitional regime specific to the Order does not permit independent performance of that activity by a non-member merely because an application is pending or an earlier administrative authorization exists. Internships and supervised operations remain possible under their governing rules; rights independently arising under another Act are preserved. Timelines for initial admission, recognition of prior learning, training and transitional-status renewal are separate from the minimum 24-month registry delay under section 63; that delay sets no maximum training or professional-status period. SECTION 60 | ART_AAM1ECQ5PWFJVN3T | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 02:33:50.091612 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_AAM1ECQ5PWFJVN3T A transitional member holds the single permit and is entered on the roll of the Order, which indicates the member’s status and applicable conditions or restrictions on practice. The member may practise independently and sign acts expressly within their authorization, within the activities, systems, equipment and competencies recognized by the Order; supervision, training or evaluation may be required under the conditions imposed. The member remains subject to the Professional Code, ethical obligations, the syndic, discipline, professional inspection and the insurance obligations applicable to practising members. Transitional membership alone does not automatically authorize a member to: 1° give the approval provided for in section 10; 2° issue the attestation reserved by section 12. The approvals and attestations referred to remain subject to the authorizations, competencies and limitations applicable to those acts. This section does not alter the rights of engineers, professional technologists or members of other orders, or authorizations independently conferred by another Act. SECTION 61 | ART_XJJ99GR6WC7D6MUW | REVISION 7 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 20:10:45.704340 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_XJJ99GR6WC7D6MUW Implementation of this Act may be progressive. The Government may determine different dates of coming into force. The Order may, by transitional regulation and within the dates determined by the Government, organize the operational phases of implementation. Regulations may not require mandatory creation of official building records, filing of complete professional files or automated transmission of information specific to the permanent documentary regime before a region’s legal activation date. The transitional establishment fee is authorized exclusively by section 35 and its implementing provisions. SECTION 62 | ART_J6P47T12Z5SXEHP7 | REVISION 4 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 20:10:45.704340 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_J6P47T12Z5SXEHP7 The Government provides for an initial integration phase for existing buildings using authorized administrative sources. An official record is established for each identified building; matching, duplicates and multiple buildings on one parcel are managed without requiring the Order to conduct a physical census. Authorities have a regulatory period to declare their jurisdiction and relevant administrative associations progressively. During that period, a provisional lack of affiliation does not, on its own, trigger supplementary routing to the Régie; once the period ends, ordinary rules apply to active buildings without a declared authority under section 25. SECTION 63 | ART_LB6T3D0DPL78JKC4 | REVISION 1 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-17 18:13:09.944061 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_LB6T3D0DPL78JKC4 Implementation follows three separate phases: (1) establishment of the Order and commencement of professional functions; (2) stabilization of the Order, secure development of the full registry and administration of simplified monthly declarations; and (3) mandatory activation of the documentary registry, region by region, on dates legally set by the government. No mandatory regional activation of full documentary filings may occur before the expiry of a minimum period of 24 months following the first board of the Order taking office. The government sets the activation dates for Québec’s 17 administrative regions by order or another legally appropriate instrument; the board prepares, publishes and updates the corresponding operational plan but cannot bring forward a legal date. Regions are activated in ascending order of the number of buildings actually subject to the scheme, not by population, land area or all buildings. Rankings are established after a census based on reliable, deduplicated and verifiable administrative sources; no definitive ordering is published until the necessary data support it. SECTION 64 | ART_RDBCTWPDYCZU9YRN | REVISION 8 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 22:47:57.662536 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_RDBCTWPDYCZU9YRN During the transitional phase and from operational commencement of the mechanism authorized by section 35, each professional concerned or authorized employer submits a simplified secure written monthly administrative declaration identifying, among other things, the responsible professional, period, number and category of eligible reports, a deduplication reference, amounts billed, collected and to be remitted, and corrections. Remittance of the transitional fee accompanies the declaration as prescribed by the regulation made by the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act under that same section. During the transitional period, information collected through the administrative pre-registry is limited to what is needed for reporting, collection, verification and accountability. Its collection, use, retention, access and destruction must comply with applicable confidentiality and privacy laws. SECTION 65 | ART_TWYHXYMUJBP28WWX | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 20:48:23.533754 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_TWYHXYMUJBP28WWX During this phase, no mandatory filing of complete professional documents, plans or non-compliance notices, and no mandatory creation of an official building record, is required for an inactive region. Professional documents continue to be produced, signed, delivered and retained in accordance with independently applicable duties. No general retrospective reconstruction of pre-activation reports is required. Building-integration deadlines, documentary transmission duties, missing-report alerts, mandatory registry notifications and other mechanisms specific to the mandatory regional regime apply only once the region is legally activated. Early access under section 72 does not have that effect. Inactive regions trigger no tracking flags, missing-document alerts or supplementary routing to the Régie based solely on a provisional lack of authority designation or filing. SECTION 66 | ART_4H6G63LAW1HE5CF4 | REVISION 1 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-17 18:13:09.944061 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_4H6G63LAW1HE5CF4 The commencement of reserved acts and professional-admission rules is determined independently of the regional documentary schedule. No transitional provision suspends emergency notices or safety obligations under another law, and the Order exercises no disciplinary authority over members of other orders. SECTION 67 | ART_2E141NC3YL2SDPNV | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-18 23:12:39.260710 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_2E141NC3YL2SDPNV After the Order has been constituted and the relevant authorizations have come into force, the Order may, before the first mandatory regional activation or before another region is activated, organize technical tests, pilot projects, targeted validation and partial commissioning of the registry. Those measures may involve volunteer professionals, employers or competent authorities, as well as selected territories, documents or services. The transitional implementation regulation provided for in section 61 may establish the operating arrangements, duration, and conditions for participation and withdrawal. It may not change dates set by the Government or the powers of the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act over access or fees. Simulations using fictitious data or a demonstration environment remain separate from the official registry and do not constitute legally recognized filings. SECTION 68 | ART_4BY2ZW4230H9AS11 | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 14:14:46.172412 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_4BY2ZW4230H9AS11 Any professional documentary filing officially accepted by the registry before mandatory activation in the region concerned, through an official service authorized under section 67 or the voluntary filing provided for in section 69, is evidenced by official proof of receipt and remains permanently traceable. The registry preserves the document, its version and the identity of its author and links it to the building’s official record, with subsequent reconciliation where necessary and without requiring a new filing. Subsequent regional activation does not require the same document to be filed again. Subsequent repeal of the transitional provisions under which it was received does not affect the validity of that filing. An early filing referred to in the first paragraph does not make filing compulsory for others, start any mandatory regional filing deadline or trigger a missing-report alert. Urgent communications and statutory safety or reporting obligations that apply independently of regional activation of the registry remain enforceable. SECTION 69 | ART_5UAYCJAE0XNGPHA5 | REVISION 1 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-17 18:13:09.944061 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_5UAYCJAE0XNGPHA5 Before activation of a region, a legally authorized person may, once the official service is authorized and operating, voluntarily file in the registry a professional document referred to in paragraphs 1 to 5 of section 15, including outside a pilot project. The Order determines the technical procedures for receiving and checking filings without changing professional practice requirements. SECTION 70 | ART_LMW3119KE163XPER | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 22:47:57.662536 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_LMW3119KE163XPER Where a professional report has been subject to the transitional charge established under section 35, no second charge is payable for its voluntary filing, transfer or continued presence in the registry after regional activation. The Order links evidence of payment to that report without treating the administrative declaration as an earlier documentary filing. A document in another category that is voluntarily filed before activation does not become retrospectively subject to the ordinary filing charge upon activation. New standalone professional revisions remain subject to charges only under their own applicable conditions; changes to the current document are not new chargeable filings. Tests and pilot access create no additional charge. The Order may not establish, increase or change a tariff. SECTION 71 | ART_YHK90UX43M371669 | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-17 18:13:09.944061 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_YHK90UX43M371669 Partial or pilot access implemented before a region is activated does not activate mandatory regional filing, missing-report alerts or any new oversight or intervention duty. It does not affect the rights of other bodies granted independently by law. SECTION 72 | ART_LW2JNXVJVQPHHUEV | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-18 23:12:39.260710 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_LW2JNXVJVQPHHUEV To prepare competent authorities for operation, the Order may grant them partial or pilot access to official files actually available before a region is activated. Access remains limited to legally authorized categories and purposes under section 22 and the external-access regulation, subject to any authorization or delegation required from the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act. Each authorization is individual, temporary and revocable; its scope is restricted according to the mandate to authorized territories, buildings, documents, functions and operations. The Order ensures authentication, verification of authority and logging. Administrative declarations in the pre-registry alone are not accessible through this mechanism. SECTION 73 | ART_4J59S7JYA7Q7XNV7 | REVISION 3 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 19:17:44.200051 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_4J59S7JYA7Q7XNV7 Notwithstanding the ownership, voting-control and management-composition rules applicable to new professional organizations, a legal person, partnership or trust carrying on a commercial enterprise that, before the commencement of the provisions constituting the Order, lawfully existed and actually offered the professional services governed by this Act may permanently continue to offer the professional services governed by this Act in its own name, regardless of its owners' professional status, if it satisfies the transitional authorization regime in this section, the initial filing under section 74 and the professional-organization regulation. The exception concerns ownership and corporate-control requirements only, not professional obligations, insurance or reserved acts. The permanent transitional entitlement is a single right linked to the authorized undertaking. It may be assigned, sold or transferred with the entirety of that undertaking, including to a purchaser formed after commencement, subject to prior registration of the transferee and continued compliance with all conditions. The transferor then loses the right. A share sale or change of control of the same organization does not end the right while conditions remain met. No sale, merger, demerger, asset transfer, franchise, branch, business division or restructuring may split or multiply this entitlement into multiple authorizations: only one continuing organization may hold it; other organizations must qualify under the ordinary regime. An organization never originally admitted to the exception cannot create, obtain solely by age, or resell an entitlement it has never held. The organization must continuously have an employee who is a PSI member and formally designated as professional delegate, with effective authority over ethics, technical decisions within the profession, member signatures and professional independence. If that person dies or becomes unable to perform the role, a qualified replacement must be designated and declared within no more than three months of the event; after that deadline the entitlement expires, subject to lawful remedies. During a vacancy no reserved act may be performed, signed or approved on the organization's behalf without immediate written designation of another legally authorized employee PSI as interim professional delegate with equivalent professional authority; appointing an interim does not extend the three-month limit. Without an interim delegate, reserved services are suspended and the organization may not suggest that its former delegate remains able to practise. For resignation, termination, suspension or ordinary loss of practice rights, a qualified replacement must be in place before reserved services resume, and the change must be promptly reported to the Order. Failure to register within six months, fraudulent eligibility, duplication of the entitlement or permanent failure to meet its conditions results in loss of the transitional regime under the Act and regulations, after an opportunity to make representations unless urgent protective measures are necessary. Loss does not prohibit non-reserved work or rights held under other professional or construction-licensing regimes. Regulations govern proof, transfer and recordkeeping but may not make this transitional entitlement non-transferable, time-limited or divisible. SECTION 74 | ART_4VHK158PLJBRTXDY | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 19:17:44.200051 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_4VHK158PLJBRTXDY The eligible organization must file its official declaration and undertaking with the Order's organization register within six months after that commencement, with proof of its lawful existence and actual offering of those services before that date, identification of its controlling persons, and written designation of at least one employee who is an active PSI member and has genuine independent authority over professional decisions. The entitlement is definitively registered only after compliance is verified; a complete timely filing preserves continuity pending a decision without permitting any reserved act without a personally authorized practitioner. SECTION 75 | ART_3AR69Y0YMJG7ZAY1 | REVISION 4 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 14:14:46.172412 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_3AR69Y0YMJG7ZAY1 For the purposes of the sunset provisions of this Act and the regulations referring to them, completion of regional deployment is the date on which the last of the seventeen administrative regions is legally activated by the Government for mandatory documentary filing. Earlier voluntary filings remain valid. The administrative pre-registry closes on a date recorded in a published order of the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act, following completion of regional deployment and the period required to receive, reconcile and settle transitional declarations and charges. Closure does not destroy supporting documents, receivables or record-retention duties. Completion of the initial building-integration program is established by a published government order after certification of source quality, duplicate handling and assignment status for competent authorities. It does not end the continued creation of official building records or inventory maintenance. SECTION 76 | ART_VXRT30BGAMY6C0JK | REVISION 2 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 20:48:23.533754 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_VXRT30BGAMY6C0JK The initial board period ends when the regular board of directors actually takes office under the Professional Code. Initial terms then expire, subject to acts performed and rights lawfully created. The period for receiving new initial-admission applications ends upon formal closure of that period by the Order and final disposition of every application filed on time, including outstanding remedies. Existing permits and statuses, including their maintenance and renewal, are not extinguished by that event. The initial organizational-filing period ends after the six-month period provided in section 74 and final disposition of filings received during that period, including outstanding remedies; vested authorizations remain subject to their permanent conditions. SECTION 77 | ART_PQN19B2YDNX0F691 | REVISION 1 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-17 18:13:09.944061 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_PQN19B2YDNX0F691 When the regular board of directors takes office as defined in section 76, section 56 is repealed. Upon completion of the initial-admission intake and processing regime established by that section, section 59 is repealed. Upon final completion of initial organizational filings under that section, section 74 is repealed. SECTION 78 | ART_QKW34LWMLLH7TZ1A | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 20:10:45.704340 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_QKW34LWMLLH7TZ1A At closure of the administrative pre-registry as defined in section 75, sections 64 and 37 are repealed. Repeal occurs only after completion of regional deployment and the period required to receive, reconcile and settle transitional declarations and charges. Upon completion of the initial building-integration program under that section, section 62 is repealed. Upon completion of regional deployment, sections 63, 65, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 61 are repealed. SECTION 79 | ART_RNLWERPBZQE87H2Q | REVISION 3 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_RNLWERPBZQE87H2Q Section 81 is repealed only after all reports it requires have actually been submitted, including the five-year report and the supplementary assessments tied to regional activation. Filing only the five-year report extinguishes no supplementary obligation. A missed deadline does not end the duty to produce the relevant report. The date and official instrument establishing each event under sections 75 and 76 must be made public. A mere announcement, pilot test, activation of a single region or internal resolution of the Order does not constitute an event reserved to the Government or the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act. SECTION 80 | ART_FDHURX5EZR7BY13D | REVISION 3 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-19 14:14:46.172412 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_FDHURX5EZR7BY13D Repeal under sections 77, 78 and 79 has no retroactive effect. It does not extinguish acts lawfully performed, permits, statuses, limitations, authorizations, vested rights, remedies, elapsed periods, payments, declarations, filings or notices lawfully established. Retention, audit trails, refunds, corrections, investigations, decisions and safety duties continue under applicable permanent provisions. A previously paid report may not be charged again merely because it is transferred or a region is activated. A professional documentary filing officially accepted before mandatory activation of its region retains its proof of receipt, versions, permanent history and the links needed for its audit trail. Subsequent reconciliation with the building’s official record may be carried out without requiring another filing. Neither regional activation nor that reconciliation requires the same document to be filed again or permits a second charge where the applicable charge has already been paid. No mandatory regional filing deadline or missing-report alert takes effect retroactively for the period preceding activation. A regulatory provision reaching its sunset is not deleted from archival or historical consultation records. Current legal text and its sunset metadata are distinct from legal proof that the triggering event has occurred. SECTION 81 | ART_HHT87Z726YDCJ13N | REVISION 5 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 16:59:18.901531 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_HHT87Z726YDCJ13N Not later than five years after this Act comes into force, the Office des professions du Québec shall report to the Minister responsible for the administration of the Professional Code on its application. The report shall address, in particular: 1° protection of the public; 2° operation of the registry; 3° logging of access; 4° the non-compliance regime; 5° the operation of categories, internships and admission pathways; 6° interprofessional interactions; 7° accessibility of services. The report separately evaluates the Order’s establishment and professional oversight from gradual registry rollout, transitional declaration volumes, startup costs, regional dates, privacy, avoidance of double billing and access services actually in operation. The Office also produces a supplementary report within six months after the third anniversary of the first mandatory regional activation of the documentary registry under section 63. It distinguishes regions by their actual operating duration and explains the interpretive limitations for newly activated regions. A review covering at least three complete years of operation in every region is produced within six months after the third anniversary of the last mandatory regional activation. If these two deadlines coincide, one report may satisfy both obligations. These reports use registry-generated data including correction times, days since opening, reclassifications and their reasons, professional disagreements, access, costs and service availability. They distinguish verified corrections from closures because a requirement ceased to apply, and the Order’s effects from the registry’s effects. The absence of pre-creation data does not dispense with measuring observable post-activation results; published data comply with confidentiality and anonymization requirements. SECTION 82 | ART_RMW3DRG7A92YYAJM | REVISION 11 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 21:49:09.174490 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_RMW3DRG7A92YYAJM The Minister responsible for the administration of the Professional Code is responsible for administering this Act, except for functions expressly entrusted to the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act. The latter exclusively exercises the central-registry and pre-registry fee-setting authority under section 35, the external-access powers under section 42 and the power to determine a challenge following a refusal by the Régie under section 31, without affecting the board of directors’ power to set professional dues under the Professional Code. Where responsibilities under the Professional Code, the Fire Safety Act and the Building Act fall to different ministers, the Ministers designated in this section coordinate their actions within the powers respectively granted by this Act and the Professional Code. That coordination neither delegates fee-setting authority nor creates any additional power. The Minister responsible for the administration of the Building Act (chapter B-1.1) exercises the power to add grounds for supplementary routing of notices to the Régie by regulation under section 20, without altering the separate responsibilities of the Ministers designated in this section. SECTION 83 | ART_5GVT58ME64JVGAME | REVISION 10 | FIRST_EFFECTIVE_DB 2026-10-24 23:49:53.082409 ARTICLE_URL: https://opsi.info/index.php?page=proposition&language=en&doc=loi&article=ART_5GVT58ME64JVGAME This Act comes into force on dates set by Government order duly published according to law. Provisions constituting the Order and the transitional regulation designating its first board take effect on its coordinated constitution date. Before admitting members entitled to practise, the essential admission, roll, professional conduct, insurance, professional inspection, professional records and governance provisions must actually be in force. The Government may make necessary initial regulations in advance only under the particular express authority in section 57 and following required consultation and approval, to prevent a regulatory gap at constitution. Regulations within the Order’s jurisdiction are subsequently made or amended by its board under the actual enabling rules: section 95.0.1 for the matters it lists; section 95.1 for regulations under sections 63.1, 65 and 90, paragraphs a, b, e and f of section 93 and paragraphs a, j and o of the first paragraph of section 94; section 95.2 for the matters it lists; and section 95 in other cases. Section 95.1 requires consideration of applicable guidelines, transmission to the Office and publication on the Order’s website, with commencement on the fifteenth day following publication or a specified later date. Prior communication under section 95.3 remains required for the matters it covers. Each provision follows the enabling power and procedure applicable to its subject matter, even when a text combines several enabling powers. Regulations belonging to the Government, the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fire Safety Act, the Minister responsible for the administration of the Professional Code, the Minister responsible for the administration of the Building Act (chapter B-1.1) or the Office, according to the statutory authority of each remain within their jurisdiction. Nothing dispenses with publication or turns initial subordinate regulations into ordinary statutory provisions. Permission to receive trust advances is deferred until the safeguards in section 40 and the trust-accounting and compensation regulations are met. The administrative pre-registry and establishment fee may commence separately from full documentary filings; no region may be made subject to mandatory activation before the minimum twenty-four-month period in section 63 has elapsed and the prescribed government activation measure is made. The transitional registry establishment fee provisions in section 37 may not take effect before the Order has been legally constituted, the applicable statutory and regulatory authority has commenced and the administrative means necessary to implement them are operational. Provisions on the ordinary filing fee in section 36 apply in each region as of its duly established and published mandatory documentary activation date. Such activation ends the creation of new transitional charges in that region only. The general repeal of section 37 then occurs at the official closure of the administrative pre-registry under section 78. Pre-existing obligations and the permanent protections against retroactive charges and double billing, and for free non-compliance reporting, survive. The annual base-dues exemption for retired members under section 35 applies to members who have lawfully acquired that status from the commencement of that provision. It does not depend on mandatory documentary activation in a region or the closure of the administrative pre-registry. DOCUMENT_COUNT: 1 ARTICLE_COUNT: 83