Member and Permit Holder Changes
It is important for members and permit holders to keep their information up to date with APEGA and pay their annual dues on time.
Members
Contact information Name changes Changes to P.L. scope Voluntary cancellations Life membership Parental leave Member-in-training reinstatements
If you are a licensed professional looking to resume practice from a non-practising status or reinstate your lapsed or cancelled licence, visit the Return to Practice page.
Members
Contact information
If your contact information has changed, please update your member record in myAPEGA. You will need your APEGA ID or email on file with APEGA and your account password. If you have forgotten those, you can reset your password or contact APEGA.
Name changes
If you have legally changed your name, you can request to have your new name appear in our records by completing a name change form in myAPEGA. There is no charge for this service.
You will need the following:
- your APEGA ID number
- a copy of one of the following documents:
- marriage certificate
- divorce certificate
- legal name change certificate
- birth certificate (if returning to your birth name)
Your driver’s licence, passport, citizenship, or permanent resident card is not acceptable as proof of your current legal name.
Changes to professional licensee defined scope of practice
To apply for a new defined scope of practice (DSOP), you must be a current professional licensee registered with APEGA. You must also have a minimum two years of professional-level engineering or geoscience work experience in the new proposed scope under the direct supervision and control of a professional engineer or professional geoscientist.
Voluntary Cancellations
Members of APEGA may voluntarily cancel their licence if they no longer practise in Alberta. To cancel your licence, please submit a voluntary cancellation form through one of the following ways:
- email the form to [email protected]
- mail the form to APEGA
Please be advised that previous payments will not be refunded or pro-rated.
Download the Voluntary Cancellation of Membership Form (PDF)
If you would like to reactivate your membership in the future, you will need to go through APEGA's return to practice or reinstatement process:
Life membership
Retiring members may qualify for life membership with APEGA if they have held active membership within Canada for at least 25 years, with the last 10 years with APEGA. Life members pay a permanently reduced rate of 25 per cent of the full dues.
Life members are also exempt from Continuing Professional Development practice standard requirements and can keep their professional designation, although they will be non-practising in Alberta. They can also continue to use APEGA member benefits. Once their status is changed, they will be billed the reduced amount every year and must complete the annual declaration. They can request to resume practice if they decide to work again in Alberta. Should they decide to return to a practising status, their membership dues would then increase to professional membership dues.
The forms for life membership can be obtained by emailing [email protected].
Parental leave
If you are currently on maternity or parental leave or starting maternity or parental leave, your dues can be reduced for up to two consecutive years for the same child (or multiple children at the same time). At your next annual renewal, you can request a dues reduction.
While on maternity or parental leave, you do not need to declare yourself non-practising. If you retain your practising status, you must complete the mandatory online learning modules and can tailor your Personal Annual Competency Evaluation plan to suit your circumstances.
However, if you are unable to meet the minimum CPD requirements due to an extenuating circumstance, you can request a CPD exception. For more information, visit the CPD page.
Member-in-training reinstatement
If you have voluntarily cancelled your registration as a member-in-training or it has been cancelled by APEGA due to non-payment of annual dues, you may be eligible to reinstate your membership. You can request to reinstate your membership by submitting a member-in-training reinstatement form by email to [email protected].
There is an eight-year time limit (total) on being a member-in-training with APEGA. This date is calculated based on the original date of enrolment. Once eight years of membership has been reached, you are unable to reinstate or extend your status as a member-in-training and your status is thus expired.
If you feel that you have four years of acceptable work experience, you may be eligible to apply for professional membership. Please visit the membership application page to review APEGA's work experience requirements.
Download the Member-in-Training Reinstatement Form (PDF)
Permit Holders
Company changes
A permit holder can update its permit information with APEGA at any time by logging into myAPEGA. Login information for the company's myAPEGA account is available to the senior officer on file with APEGA, and additional individuals can be added as administrators.
Information that can be maintained in the myAPEGA company account includes:
- administrators for the company's myAPEGA account
- employees
- Responsible Members
- senior officer information
- company name information
- company contact information
- company activities
- human resources contact information
- voluntary cancellation of a permit
The myAPEGA portal also provides the total number of members on file with APEGA, used in the calculation of permit dues based on the permit dues model. This is for information purposes only. The finalized dues payment is not required until the annual invoice is issued.
Voluntary cancellations
A company can voluntarily cancel its Permit to Practice if it:
- is no longer engaging in the practice of engineering or geoscience in Alberta
- has merged or been acquired by another permit holder
- has been dissolved and no longer exists
Any company that does not hold an active Permit to Practice cannot use a reserved word within its company name, even if it is not engaging in engineering or geoscience work. Read more about the right to practise and using reserved titles.
To request voluntary cancellation, submit a cancellation request in your myAPEGA account. APEGA will notify you once the cancellation has been processed. Your company must return all permit certificates and stamps to APEGA.
Involuntary cancellations
APEGA will cancel a Permit to Practice if:
- a discipline order exists requiring that the Permit to Practice be cancelled
- the company has not paid its annual dues by the due date
- the company does not have a designated Responsible Member
- the company’s Responsible Members have not attended a Permit to Practice seminar within five years
- the company does not have a senior officer associated with the permit
Reinstatements
Any company requesting a permit reinstatement will have to submit a new permit application form and proceed through the application process. If approved, the company can use the previously assigned permit holder number.
Two payments will have to be made to APEGA. The first is a non-refundable permit reinstatement fee. Once the reinstatement is approved, the calculation for outstanding dues will be made, and these must be paid before the permit holder will be issued the permit certificate.
The permit reinstatement process can take up to one month for processing.