Healthcare Services (Advertisement) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

No. S 404

Healthcare Services Act 2020

Healthcare Services
(Advertisement) (Amendment)
Regulations 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 57 of the Healthcare Services Act 2020, the Minister for Health makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Healthcare Services (Advertisement) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and come into operation on 26 June 2023.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. In the Healthcare Services (Advertisement) Regulations 2021 (G.N. No. S 1033/2021) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 2 —

(a)

in the definition of “contact information”, in paragraph (b), replace “licensed premises of or licensed conveyance used by” with “approved permanent premises or approved conveyance of, or temporary premises used by,”;

(b)

in the definition of “review”, replace the full‑stop at the end with a semi‑colon; and

(c)

after the definition of “review”, insert —

“ “temporary premises” means any premises other than permanent premises.”.

Amendment of regulation 6

3. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 6 —

(a)

in paragraphs (1) and (3), replace “licensed premises of or licensed conveyance used by” with “approved permanent premises or approved conveyance of, or any temporary premises used by,”; and

(b)

replace paragraph (2) with —

“(2) However, paragraph (1) does not prohibit a licensee from affixing any advertisement to any door, fence, grille, partition, wall or window of any approved permanent premises or approved conveyance of, or any temporary premises used by, the licensee, even if the advertisement is visible to any individual from outside the approved permanent premises, approved conveyance or temporary premises, as the case may be.”.

Amendment of regulation 8

4. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 8(1) and (4) —

(a)	replace “Director” with “Director‑General”; and
(b)	replace “licensed premises of or licensed conveyance used by” with “approved permanent premises or approved conveyance of”.

Amendment of regulation 11

5. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 11 —

(a)	in the regulation heading, replace “licensed premises or licensed conveyance” with “approved permanent premises, approved conveyance or temporary premises”; and
(b)	in paragraphs (1) and (2), replace “licensed premises of or licensed conveyance used by” with “approved permanent premises or approved conveyance of, or any temporary premises used by,”.

Amendment of regulation 14

6. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 14 —

(a)

after paragraph (2), insert —

“(2A) Paragraph (2) does not apply in relation to an applicable review or testimonial, or an endorsement, about an assisted reproduction service provided by a licensee who holds a licence under the Act to provide that service.”;

(b)

after paragraph (4), insert —

“(4A) Paragraph (4) does not apply in relation to an applicable review or testimonial, or an endorsement, about an assisted reproduction service provided by a charitable healthcare service provider who holds a licence under the Act to provide that service.”; and

(c)

after paragraph (5), insert —

“(6) In this regulation, “assisted reproduction service” has the meaning given by paragraph 2 of the First Schedule to the Act.”.

Miscellaneous amendments

7. In the principal Regulations —

(a)

in the following provisions, replace “licensed premises of or licensed conveyance used by” with “approved permanent premises or approved conveyance of, or any temporary premises used by,”:

Regulation 13(3)(a)

Regulation 14(2)(a); and

(b)

in the following provisions, replace “Director” wherever it appears with “Director‑General”:

Regulation 17(8)

Regulation 18(5)(b), (6)(b) and (7)(b).

Made on 19 June 2023.

CHAN YENG KIT

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[MH 78:44/1; AG/LEGIS/SL/122E/2020/2 Vol. 4]

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