Healthcare Services (Crawfurd Hospital) (Exemption) Order 2023

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 23 Jun 2023

No. S 426

Healthcare Services Act 2020

Healthcare Services
(Crawfurd Hospital) (Exemption)
Order 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 53 of the Healthcare Services Act 2020, the Minister for Health makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Healthcare Services (Crawfurd Hospital) (Exemption) Order 2023 and comes into operation on 26 June 2023.

Definitions

2. In this Order —

“acute hospital service” and “clinical laboratory service” have the meanings given by paragraph 2 of the First Schedule to the Act;

“clinical laboratory service licensee” means a person who holds a licence under the Act to provide a clinical laboratory service;

“Crawfurd Hospital Pte. Ltd.” means the person who is authorised by a licence under the Act to provide an acute hospital service at the specified premises;

“patient” means a patient of Crawfurd Hospital Pte. Ltd. who receives care and treatment at the specified premises;

“specified premises” means the approved permanent premises known as “Crawfurd Hospital” that is located at 19 Adam Road, Singapore 289891.

Exemption

3.—(1) Subject to the condition in paragraph (2), Crawfurd Hospital Pte. Ltd. is exempt from regulation 40(1) and (2) of the Healthcare Services (Acute Hospital Service) Regulations 2023 (G.N. No. S 424/2023) in respect of the provision of a clinical laboratory service at the specified premises for the period from 26 June 2023 to 15 December 2023, both dates inclusive.

(2) Crawfurd Hospital Pte. Ltd. must appoint, and make arrangements with, a clinical laboratory service licensee to provide a clinical laboratory service to every patient who requires the service, whether at the specified premises or any approved permanent premises of the clinical laboratory service licensee.

Made on 22 June 2023.

CHAN YENG KIT

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[MH 78:44/1; AG/LEGIS/SL/122E/2020/38 Vol. 1]

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