Professional Engineers Ontario Provisional Licence

The engineers who want to migrate to Ontario (Canada) must have heard of Professional Engineers Ontario Provision Licence. If you are one of such engineers and want to know more about this licence, then we have provided in this blog valuable information for you with the hope that it can assist you in reaching your goal.

Professional Engineers Ontario Provision Licence:

A provision licence is given to those applicants for a professional engineer (P.Eng) licence who fulfil all of PEO’s licensing requirements but the minimum 12 months of verifiable and acceptable engineering experience in a Canadian jurisdiction. This work experience must be under the supervision of a professional engineer who has a licence in the jurisdiction in which the work was taken on.

To be eligible for a provisional licence, a P.Eng. licence candidate must have:

·        Fulfilled PEO’s academic requirements for licence

·        Passed PEO’s National Professional Practice Examination

·        Showed to PEO’s satisfaction a minimum of 36 months of acceptable and verifiable engineering experience that is outside of Canada

Provisional licence conditions:

As per section 44.1(2) of Regulation 941/1990: The below-given conditions apply to every provisional licence:

·        The provisional licence is valid for 12 months from the issuance date. You can get it renewed once for up to 12 months if the Registrar has the opinion that renewal is a must to make the applicant capable of acquiring the experience needed by paragraph 4 of subsection 33 (1). 

·        The holder of the provisional licence is can work as a professional engineer only under the supervision of a professional engineer. They shall not issue a final drawing, plan, specification, report or another document unless the supervising professional engineer also signs and dates it and affixes their seal to it.

A provisional licence gives authority to its holder to work as a professional engineer in Ontario only under the supervision of a professional engineer who has a licence in the Ontario province.

How to achieve a provisional licence?

If you fulfil the eligibility requirements for a provisional licence and want to achieve one, you need to request one by writing to the PEO Ontario authority. Your written request must have your full name, your PEO file number and your signature.

You hold the responsibility to make sure that PEO has your current experience record on file and your referee response forms. If PEO doesn’t have a current and complete detailed engineering experience record, provide one with your request for a provisional licence. Professional Engineers Ontario may need you to attend an Experience Requirements Committee interview before issuing you a provisional licence.

After being approved for a provisional licence, you will get an invoice for the provisional licence registration fee of $339 ($300 + HST).

Professional Engineers Ontario may provide those applicants with provisional licences who have completed all the requirements for a licence as a professional engineer aside from the 12 months of acceptable engineering experience in a Canadian jurisdiction under the supervision of a professional engineer who is licensed.

This licence has 12-month validity from the date of issuance and may be renewed for an extra 12 months only under special circumstances as the Registrar determines.

The holder of this licence can practise professional engineering providing that they work under the supervision of a professional engineer and shall not issue a final drawing, report, plan, specification or another document unless the supervising professional engineer also signs and dates it and affixes their seal to it.