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Medical Radiation Technology Act, 1991
Loi de 1991 sur les technologues en radiation médicale

ONTARIO REGULATION 855/93

PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT

Historical version for the period May 8, 1998 to October 18, 2012.

Last amendment: O. Reg. 199/98.

This Regulation is made in English only.

1. The following are acts of professional misconduct for the purposes of clause 51 (1) (c) of the Health Professions Procedural Code:

1. Failing to comply with the conditions or limitations in the member’s certificate of registration.

2. Holding out that the member has special qualifications not possessed by the member.

3. Inappropriately using a term, title or designation in respect of the member’s practice.

4. Inappropriately using a term, title or designation indicating a specialization in the profession.

5. Contravening the regulations respecting conflicts of interest.

6. Practising the profession while the member’s ability to do so is impaired by any substance.

7. Giving information about a patient to any person except as required or allowed by law or except to facilitate diagnosis or treatment of a patient.

8. Using a name, other than the member’s name as set out in the register, in the course of providing or offering to provide services within the scope of practice of the profession.

9. Falsifying a record relating to the member’s practice.

10. Abusing any person with whom the member comes into contact in the course of practising the profession.

11. Carelessly, negligently or unskillfully using ionizing radiation.

12. Failing to maintain the standards of practice of the profession.

12.1 Failing to co-operate with the Quality Assurance Committee or with an assessor appointed under section 81 of the Health Professions Procedural Code.

12.2 Failing to participate in a practice assessment.

12.3 Failing to carry out a requirement or order of the Quality Assurance Committee.

12.4 Refusing to carry out a remedial activity required by the Quality Assurance Committee or failing to complete the activity within the time period required by the Committee.

13. Failing to keep records as required by the regulations.

14. Contravening the Act, the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 or the regulations under either of those Acts.

15. Contravening a federal, provincial or territorial law, a municipal by-law, or a by-law or rule of a hospital within the meaning of the Public Hospitals Act if,

i. the purpose of the law, by-law or rule is to protect public health, or

ii. the contravention is relevant to the member’s suitability to practice.

16. Influencing a patient to change a will or other testamentary instrument.

17. Engaging in conduct or performing an act in the course of practising the profession that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.

18. Doing anything to a patient for a therapeutic, preventative, palliative, diagnostic, cosmetic or other health-related purpose in a situation in which a consent is required by law, without such a consent.

19. Failing to reveal the nature of a procedure or treatment used by the member following a patient’s request to do so to the extent required and permitted by the standards of practice of the profession.

20. Signing or issuing, in the member’s professional capacity, a document that the member knows contains a false or misleading statement. O. Reg. 855/93, s. 1; O. Reg. 199/98, s. 1.

2. Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Regulation). O. Reg. 855/93, s. 2.