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Continuing Care Assistants Registry Regulations

made under

Section 13 of the

Continuing Care Assistants Registry Act

S.N.S. 2021, c. 4

O.I.C. 2022-35 (effective February 1, 2022), N.S. Reg. 15/2022

Table of Contents

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Citation

Definitions

Information in Registry

Persons required to apply for registration in Registry

Application for registration in Registry

Expiry and renewal of registration

Change to information in Registry

Removal from Registry

Reasons for Administrator’s decision

Fines

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Continuing Care Assistants Registry Regulations .

Definitions

2 In these regulations,

“Act” means the Continuing Care Assistants Registry Act ;

“care team assistant” means a person employed in a collaborative acute care team

within a health authority to support patients’ activities of daily living and

instrumental activities of daily living;

“certified continuing care assistant” is further defined to include any of the

following:

(

i) care team assistants,

(ii) persons employed in a role requiring designation as a certified

continuing care assistant;

“conditional registration” means registration in the Registry of a person hired by an

employer on a conditional basis in accordance with the Educational Requirements

for Entry to Practice of Non-Licensed Care Staff Policy;

“continuing care assistant in training” means a person employed as a continuing

care assistant who is

(

i) completing requirements to become a certified continuing care

assistant, and

(ii) hired on a conditional basis in accordance with the Educational

Requirements for Entry to Practice of Non-Licensed Care Staff

Policy;

“registrant” means a person who is registered in the Registry;

“renewal date” means, in any given year,

(

i) March 31, and

(ii) the date by which a registrant must renew their registration in the

Registry.

Information in Registry

(1) The Registry must include all of the following information about each registrant in

accordance with clause 5(2)(

c) of the Act:

(

a) contact information, including address, telephone number and email

address;

(

b) date of birth;

(

c) verification of identification;

(

d) gender and preferred pronouns;

(

e) citizenship status;

(

f) languages spoken;

(

g) highest level of education obtained outside the continuing care assistant

profession;

(

h) name of continuing care assistant educational program completed and year

of graduation from program;

(

i) verification of completion of continuing care assistant educational program;

(

j) year of certification as a continuing care assistant in Nova Scotia;

(

k) employment status;

(

l) information about the registrant’s current employment, including name of

employer, start date, hours worked and duties;

(

m) location of initial registration as a continuing care assistant or equivalent;

(

n) all locations of past employment as a continuing care assistant or equivalent;

(

o) expected retirement date;

(

p) whether the registrant is a continuing care assistant in training;

(

q) such other information that the Minister determines may be useful to have

for the purpose of continuing care assistant workforce planning.

(2) The information included in the Registry under clause (1)(

p) must be made

available to the public.

Persons required to apply for registration in Registry

(1) A person who is employed as a continuing care assistant in training must apply for

registration in the Registry.

(2) A person who is a student actively enrolled in a health discipline and hired in the

role of a continuing care assistant in accordance with the Educational

Requirements for Entry to Practice of Non-Licensed Care Staff Policy must apply

for conditional registration in the Registry.

Application for registration in Registry

(1) An application for registration in the Registry must include the information

described in subsection 3(1).

(2) For the year 2022 only, applications for registration in the Registry must be filed by

June 30, 2022.

(3) The Administrator must register every person who has applied for registration

under

Section 4 in the Registry.

Expiry and renewal of registration

(1) A registrant’s registration in the Registry expires each year on December 31.

(2) A registrant who wishes to renew their registration in the Registry for the following

year must submit a completed application for renewal of registration to the

Administrator by the renewal date.

(3) A registrant who is on leave from their employment must maintain their

registration.

Change to information in Registry

(1) A registrant with conditional registration must notify the Administrator if they no

longer meet the requirements for conditional registration.

(2) The Administrator must annotate a registrant’s information in the Registry in any

of the following circumstances:

(

a) there is an error in the Registry;

(

b) the registrant’s name has changed;

(

c) the registrant’s contact information has changed.

(3) The registrant must provide verification of a name change as described in clause

(2)(

b) at the request of the Administrator.

Removal from Registry

8 The Administrator may remove any of the following from the Registry:

(

a) a registrant who has

(

i) made a written request to be removed from the Registry, and

(ii) confirmed they do not intend to use the title “Certified Continuing

Care Assistant” or “continuing care assistant” or any derivative of

either title as described in

Section 11 of the Act;

(

b) a registrant with conditional registration who no longer meets the criteria for

conditional registration;

(

c) a registrant who no longer meets the criteria for employment as a continuing

care assistant in training in accordance with the Educational Requirements

for Entry to Practice of Non-Licensed Care Staff Policy;

(

d) a registrant who has been determined by the Administrator to be

non-compliant with the Act or these regulations for at least 12 months.

Reasons for Administrator’s decision

(1) The Administrator must provide an applicant or registrant with written reasons

explaining why the Administrator has done any of the following:

(

a) declined to register an applicant in the Registry;

(

b) declined a registrant’s application for renewal of registration in the Registry;

(

c) removed a registrant from the Registry.

(2) The Administrator must include with the written reasons described in subsection

(1) information on how the applicant or registrant may have the Administrator’s

decision reviewed.

Fines

(1) If the Administrator has issued a fine to a person under subsection 12(3) of the Act,

the Administrator must provide the person with all of the following in writing:

(

a) notice of the fine;

(

b) information on how the fine may be resolved.

(2) The Administrator must forgive a fine issued to a person under subsection 12(3) of

the Act if the offence that precipitated the fine is resolved within 90 days of the

person receiving notice of the fine.

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Continuing Care Assistants Registry Regulations

N.S. Reg.

15/2022

Continuing Care Assistants Registry Act

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Continuing Care Assistants Registry Regulations made

under the Continuing Care Assistants Registry Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

15/2022

Feb 1, 2022

date specified

Feb 25, 2022

The following regulations are not yet in force and

are not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

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Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections

Note

Effective

date

Repealed and Superseded

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this

table. It may not reflect the entire

history of regulations on this subject matter.