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Employer's responsibility to ensure registration
66(1)    No person shall knowingly employ or continue to employ a person to perform the practice of psychiatric nursing unless the person is a registered psychiatric nurse or a graduate psychiatric nurse registered under this Act.

Annual review
66(2)    Every person who employs registered psychiatric nurses shall review their registration status annually.

Responsibility to report misconduct
66(3)    An employer who suspends or terminates the employment of a registered psychiatric nurse or graduate psychiatric nurse for alleged professional incompetence or professional misconduct shall promptly report the suspension or termination to the executive director, in writing, setting out the grounds of the alleged incompetence or misconduct.

Referral to investigation committee
66(4)    On receiving a report from an employer, the executive director may refer the matter to the investigation committee.

The Registered Psychiatric Nurses Act (C.C.S.M. C. R45).