Singapore legislation
Clause 24
Clause 24
Appointment of Principal Officer and Clinical Governance Officer by licensee
(1)
Every licensee must appoint a suitably qualified individual as the licensee’s Principal Officer.
(2)
Every licensee that is authorised by a licence to provide a prescribed licensable healthcare service must appoint one or more suitably qualified individuals as the licensee’s Clinical Governance Officer or Clinical Governance Officers to be responsible for the clinical and technical matters relating to the prescribed licensable healthcare service, and is or are to perform the functions in relation to the licensee, as may be prescribed.
(3)
For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), an individual is a suitably qualified individual if the individual —
is a suitable person to act as the licensee’s Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer, as the case may be; and
possesses the skills and competencies that are prescribed for the performance of the functions and duties of the licensee’s Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer, as the case may be.
(4)
For the purposes of subsection (3), different skills and competencies may be prescribed in respect of different licensable healthcare services.
(5)
Every licensee must, within the prescribed period, notify the Director of the appointments in subsections (1) and (2) (if applicable), and any change in any of the appointments.
(6)
A notification of any change in an appointment under subsection (5) must be made in the form and manner that the Director requires.
(7)
The licensee must ensure that —
the individual the licensee appoints as Principal Officer is suitably qualified to act as Principal Officer at all times during the term of the individual’s appointment and the term of the licensee’s licence; and
every individual the licensee appoints as Clinical Governance Officer is suitably qualified to act as Clinical Governance Officer at all times during the term of the individual’s appointment and the term of the licensee’s licence.
(8)
Where an individual appointed as the licensee’s Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer —
is not, or is no longer, suitable to act as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer (as the case may be), the licensee must remove the individual from that individual’s appointment as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer (as the case may be), and appoint another individual as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer, as the case may be; or
for any other reason stops acting, or is unable to act, as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer (as the case may be), the licensee must appoint another individual as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer, as the case may be.
(9)
Where an individual appointed by a licensee as the licensee’s Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer fails to perform any function of a Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer (as the case may be), the Director may, without affecting the Director’s power under section 20, issue a direction to the licensee to remove and replace that individual as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer (as the case may be), and the licensee must comply with that direction.
(10)
Different periods may be prescribed for the licensee —
to remove an individual from that individual’s appointment as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer (as the case may be), and to appoint another individual as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer, under subsection (8)(a); and
to appoint an individual as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer (as the case may be) under subsection (8)(b) where the individual previously appointed as Principal Officer or Clinical Governance Officer (as the case may be) stops acting, or is unable to act, in that capacity for any reason.