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PD Policy & Enforcement
Certified Members who are deemed not to have met their professional obligation with respect to their PD activities will be contacted, in writing. Such Certified Member will be required to provide CMA Canada – British Columbia with appropriate written plans that will result in those members complying with their obligations regarding professional competency. Members will be required to submit such remedial plans within thirty days from the date of the notification from CMA Canada – British Columbia requesting a written plan. CMA Canada – British Columbia will then follow up with these members to ensure they have complied with their professional obligations.
Mandatory PD will operate effectively and in the public interest only if Certified Members who willfully fail to comply with the requirement are brought into compliance on a timely basis. All members are required to report their CPLD credits no later than July 31st of each year for the prior 12-month period. Members who have not filed their annual PD report by September 30th will be assessed a late filing penalty of $150. Effective July 1st, 2010, all members who remain PD non-compliant on January 1st of the following year will be fined $10 per deficient credit on the 3 year reporting minimum and an additional $10 per deficient credit on the 20 credit annual reporting minimum (unless they have submitted a written plan to the Society confirmation their compliance by June 30th of the following year).
Certified Members who willfully evade their professional obligations regarding competency will be referred to the Board for consideration and disposition in accordance with Section 10.06(b) and 7.03(b) of our Bylaws.
As a self-regulating body it is the obligation of CMA Canada – British Columbia to protect the public interest. It is also unfair to the majority of members who participate in required CPLD programs, at a cost of time and money, to allow others who do not do so to escape sanctions.