Health Products (Oral Dental Gums) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 23 Jun 2023

No. S 432

Health Products Act 2007

Health Products
(Oral Dental Gums)
(Amendment) Regulations 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 72 of the Health Products Act 2007, the Health Sciences Authority, with the approval of the Minister for Health, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations are the Health Products (Oral Dental Gums) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and, except for regulation 4, come into operation on 26 June 2023.

(2) Regulation 4 is deemed to have come into operation on 31 December 2021.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. In the Health Products (Oral Dental Gums) Regulations 2016 (G.N. No. S 539/2016) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 2 —

(a)

after the definition of “Fees Regulations”, insert —

“ “healthcare service licensee” means a person who holds a licence under the Healthcare Services Act 2020 to provide a licensable healthcare service;”;

(b)

replace the definition of “licensed healthcare institution” with —

“ “licensable healthcare service” has the meaning given by section 3(1) of the Healthcare Services Act 2020;”;

(c)

after the definition of “licensee”, insert —

“ “nursing home” means a nursing home within the meaning of the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act 1980 that is licensed under that Act;

“nursing home licensee” means a person who holds a licence under the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act 1980 to operate a nursing home;”; and

(d)

after the definition of “oral dental gum”, insert —

“ “personnel” means —

(a)	in relation to a healthcare service licensee providing a licensable healthcare service — any individual employed or engaged by the healthcare service licensee to assist the licensee in providing the licensable healthcare service; and
(b)	in relation to a nursing home licensee operating a nursing home — any individual employed or engaged by the nursing home licensee to assist in the operation of the nursing home;”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 3(1), replace sub‑paragraph (b) with —

“(b)	the supply is made at or from a nursing home to a patient at the nursing home, and in accordance with the written instructions of a qualified practitioner who is a personnel of the nursing home licensee;
(ba)	the supply is made by a healthcare service licensee to a patient of that healthcare service licensee, and in accordance with the written instructions of a qualified practitioner who is a personnel of the healthcare service licensee; or”.

Miscellaneous amendments

4. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 2 —

(a)	in the definition of “qualified pharmacist”, in paragraph (a), replace “(Cap. 230)” with “2007”;
(b)	in the definition of “qualified practitioner”, in paragraph (a), replace “(Cap. 174)” with “1997”; and
(c)	in the definition of “qualified practitioner”, in paragraph (b), replace “(Cap. 76)” with “1999”.

[G.N. Nos. S 95/2019; S 457/2022]

Made on 21 June 2023.

BENJAMIN ONG

Chairperson,
Health Sciences Authority,
Singapore.

[401:04/01-000; MH 78:44/1; AG/LEGIS/SL/122D/2020/16 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 72(5) of the Health Products Act 2007).

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