The role of regulatory bodies under the Professional Governance Act (PGA) is set out in Section 22 [General duty and responsibilities of regulatory bodies] as follows:

• It is the general duty of a regulatory body at all times to serve and protect the public interest with respect to the exercise of a profession, professional governance and the conduct of registrants;
• A regulatory body has the following responsibilities:
  • to superintend the regulated practice;
  • to preserve and protect reserved titles or reserved practices, as applicable, in the public interest;
  • to govern the registrants of the regulatory body according to the PGA, the regulations and the bylaws;
  • to establish the conditions or requirements for registration with the regulatory body;
  • to establish, monitor and enforce standards of practice to enhance the quality of practice so that registrants avoid:
    1. professional misconduct,
    2. conduct unbecoming a registrant, and
    3. incompetent performance of duties;
  • to establish and maintain a continuing competency program to promote high practice standards amongst registrants;
  • to establish, monitor and enforce standards of professional ethics amongst registrants;
  • to establish and employ registration, investigation and discipline procedures that are transparent, objective, impartial and fair;
  • to administer the affairs of the regulatory body and exercise its powers and perform its duties under the PGA or other enactments;
  • in the course of exercising the powers and performing the duties of the regulatory body under the PGA or other enactments, to promote and enhance the following:
    1. collaborative relations with other regulatory bodies, post-secondary education institutions and the government;
    2. interprofessional collaborative practice between its registrants and persons practising another profession;
    3. the ability of its registrants to respond and adapt to changes in practice environments, advances in technology and other emerging issues.