Healthcare Services (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2023

No. S 848

Healthcare Services Act 2020

Healthcare Services
(General) (Amendment No. 2)
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 (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2023 and come into operation on 18 December 2023.

Amendment of regulation 16A

2. In the Healthcare Services (General) Regulations 2021 (G.N. No. S 1035/2021) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 16A —

(a)

in paragraph (b), replace the full‑stop at the end with a semi‑colon; and

(b)

after paragraph (b), insert —

“(c)	a licensee authorised to provide a nursing home service.”.

Amendment of regulation 40

3. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 40(2), replace sub‑paragraph (b) with —

“(b)

if the patient is an adult who lacks capacity within the meaning of section 4 of the Mental Capacity Act 2008 — any of the following persons:

(i)	where there is a deputy appointed or deemed to be appointed for the patient by the court under that Act with power in relation to the patient for the purposes of these Regulations — the deputy;
(ii)	where there is a donee appointed under a lasting power of attorney registered under that Act with power in relation to the patient for the purposes of these Regulations — the donee;
(iii)	in any other case — any of the patient’s next of kin;”.

Amendment of Second Schedule

4. In the principal Regulations, in the Second Schedule, after item 15, insert —

“16.	Nursing home service”.

Amendment of Third Schedule

5. In the principal Regulations, in the Third Schedule, in Part 1, in item 1, in the first column, after paragraph (b), insert —

“(c)	a nursing home service”.

[G.N. No. S 414/2023]

Made on 13 December 2023.

CHAN YENG KIT

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

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

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