4.—(1) An applicant may apply for the grant or renewal of one or more licences in a single application, which must be accompanied by an application fee for each licence as determined in accordance with the Healthcare Services (Fees) Regulations 2021 (G.N. No. S 1032/2021).
(2) An application for the grant of one or more licences must be made no later than 2 months before the licensable healthcare service to which the licence or each of the licences (as the case may be) relates is provided to the public.
(3) An application to renew any licence must be made no later than 2 months before the date the licence expires (called in this regulation the renewal deadline).
(4) Where an application to renew a licence is made after the renewal deadline, the applicant must, at the time of making the application for renewal, pay a late renewal application fee of an amount specified in the Healthcare Services (Fees) Regulations 2021.
Special licensable healthcare services and underlying licensable healthcare services
5.—(1) For the purposes of the definition of “special licensable healthcare service” in section 2(1) of the Act, the licensable healthcare services set out in Part 1 of the First Schedule are special licensable healthcare services.
(2) For the purposes of sections 11(3)(c) and 13(3) of the Act, each licensable healthcare service specified in the second column of Part 2 of the First Schedule is prescribed as an underlying licensable healthcare service to the special licensable healthcare service set out in the first column of that Schedule corresponding thereto.
Amendment of licence
6.—(1) An application to amend the name of a licensee must be made by the licensee concerned no later than one month before the amendment is to take effect.
(2) An application to amend the particulars of a licence, other than the licence conditions and the particulars mentioned in paragraph (1), must be made by the licensee concerned no later than 10 calendar days before the amendment is to take effect.
Transfer of licence
7. Where there is a change of the licensee because of a transfer or an assignment of a licence, or of any rights, benefits or privileges under a licence, under section 16(1) of the Act, the original licensee must apply to the Director to amend the name of the licensee in the licence no later than one month before the transfer or assignment is to take effect.
Voluntary cessation of licensable healthcare service or surrender of licence
8.—(1) For the purposes of section 17(2) of the Act, the prescribed time for giving of the notice to the Director is one month.
(2) Before a licensee wholly and permanently stops providing any licensable healthcare service, or stops using any licensed premises or licensed conveyance specified in the licence, or surrenders the licence, the licensee must do all the following:
(a)
ensure that every patient of the licensee continues to receive adequate and proper care or accommodation, whether by the licensee in another licensed premises or conveyance, or by another licensee;
(b)
ensure that the measures in regulation 39(1)(a), (b) and (c) are taken;
(c)
comply with every direction given by the Director in relation to the accommodation, care and medical information of the patients until the cessation of the licensable healthcare service, licensed premises or licensed conveyance, or surrender of the licence, as the case may be.
