Voluntary cessation of licensable healthcare service or surrender of licence
8.—(1) For the purposes of section 17(2) of the Act, the prescribed time for giving of the notice to the Director-General is one month.
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(2) Before a licensee wholly and permanently stops providing any licensable healthcare service or surrenders the licence, the licensee must do all the following:
(a)
ensure that every patient of the licensee continues to receive adequate and proper care or accommodation by another licensee;
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(b)
ensure that the measures in regulation 39(1)(a), (b) and (c) are taken;
(c)
comply with every direction given by the Director-General in relation to the accommodation, care and medical information of the patients until the cessation of the licensable healthcare service or surrender of the licence, as the case may be.