Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2000

No. S 256

Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act

(Chapter 248)

Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act, the Minister for Health hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2000.

Amendment of regulation 4

2. Regulation 4 of the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Regulations (Rg 1) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” in the 1st and 2nd lines and in the last line and substituting in each case the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”.

Amendment of regulation 5

3. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraphs (2) and (3) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(2) Every application for a licence shall be an application for a licence for a period of 24 months.

(3) Where an application for a licence or renewal thereof has been approved, the fee paid for such licence or renewal thereof shall not be refunded.

(4) Where an application for a licence is withdrawn before the application has been approved, the applicant shall pay an administrative fee of 20% of the licence fee payable for the licence or $100, whichever is the greater, and such administrative fee may be deducted from any licence fee already paid for the licence.

(5) An applicant for a licence may, at any time before the licence is issued, apply to the Director to —

(a)	amend the name of the private hospital, medical clinic, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment which appears on the application form he has submitted; or
(b)	include another person as a proposed licensee.

(6) Where an application for any amendment under paragraph (5) is made after the application for a licence has been approved by the Director, the Director may, on payment of an administrative fee of $100, approve the application for the amendment and issue a licence incorporating such amendment.

(7) An application for any amendment to a licence which has been issued shall be made by way of an application for a fresh licence and shall be accompanied by the appropriate fee specified in the Fourth Schedule.

(8) Where a licence is lost, damaged or destroyed, the Director may, on the application of the licensee and on payment of a fee of $100, issue a duplicate licence.”.

Amendment of regulation 7

4. Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” and substituting the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”.

Amendment of regulation 9

5. Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” in the 2nd and 3rd lines of paragraph (1) and substituting the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”;
(b)	by deleting the words “or laboratory” in the 5th line of paragraph (1) and substituting the words “, laboratory or healthcare establishment”;
(c)	by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” in paragraph (2) and substituting the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”; and
(d)	by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” in the regulation heading and substituting the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”.

Amendment of regulation 10

6. Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” in the 2nd line of paragraph (1) and substituting the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”;

(b)

by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (1)(d);

(c)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of sub-paragraph (e) of paragraph (1) and substituting the word “; and”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub-paragraph:

“(f)	in the case of a healthcare establishment, a suitably qualified person approved by the Director.”;

(d)

by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” in the 2nd and 3rd lines and in the 5th line of paragraph (3) and substituting in each case the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”; and

(e)

by deleting the words “or laboratory” in the last line of paragraph (3) and substituting the words “, laboratory or healthcare establishment”.

Amendment of regulation 12

7. Regulation 12 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “or medical clinic” in the 1st line of paragraph (1) and substituting the words “, medical clinic or healthcare establishment”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” in paragraph (3) and substituting the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”.

Amendment of regulation 52

8. Regulation 52 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “and clinical laboratories” and substituting the words “, clinical laboratories and healthcare establishments”.

Amendment of regulation 53

9. Regulation 53 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” and substituting the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”.

Amendment of regulation 54

10. Regulation 54 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the words “ “medical laboratory” ”in the 4th and 5th lines, the words “, “healthcare establishment” ”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “or clinical laboratory” in the penultimate and last lines and substituting the words “, clinical laboratory or healthcare establishment”.

Deletion and substitution of First Schedule

11. The First Schedule to the principal Regulations is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:

“THE SCHEDULE

First Schedule