Singapore legislation
Clause 15
Clause 15
Amendment of licence
(1)
A licensee that intends to —
provide the licensable healthcare service to which the licence relates —
at any premises not specified in the licence; or
using any conveyance not specified in the licence;
stop providing the licensable healthcare service to which the licence relates at any premises, or stop using any conveyance, specified in the licence; or
amend any other particulars or information (except conditions) specified in the licence,must apply to the Director to amend the licence.
(2)
Despite subsection (1)(a), a licensee may, instead of applying for an amendment of a licence, apply for a fresh licence under section 10.
(3)
An application to amend a licence under subsection (1) must be —
in the form and manner that the Director requires;
made no later than the prescribed time before the licensee provides the licensable healthcare service at the new premises or uses the new conveyance, or before the amendment is to take effect, as the case may be; and
accompanied by an application fee (if prescribed).
(4)
Different application fees may be prescribed in respect of different types of amendments to a licence.
(5)
In deciding whether an application under subsection (1) should be granted, the Director must have regard to, and give such weight as the Director considers appropriate to, the matters mentioned in section 11(3).
(6)
The Director may, when granting approval for an application for an amendment of a licence, modify any of the conditions of the licence as the Director considers appropriate without compensating the licensee concerned, but section 14(2), (3) and (4) does not apply to or in relation to these modifications to the conditions of the licence.
(7)
Upon approval of an application for an amendment of a licence, the Director must issue to the licensee a duly amended licence which replaces the original licence.