Regulation 1
Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the National Registry of Diseases (Single Kidney — Post Nephrectomy (Donor) Notification) Regulations 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2009.
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National Registry of Diseases (Single Kidney — Post Nephrectomy (Donor) Notification) Regulations 2009 is Singapore Subsidiary Legislation, cited as Subsidiary Legislation NRDA-S531-2009 2007, currently marked in force and first recorded in 2007.
Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the National Registry of Diseases (Single Kidney — Post Nephrectomy (Donor) Notification) Regulations 2009 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2009.
Definitions
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —“nephrectomy” means the surgical removal of a kidney;“patient” means a person to whom a notification referred to in regulation 3 relates;“recipient” means the person into whose body a patient’s kidney is or will be transplanted;“single kidney — post nephrectomy (donor)” refers to the absence of a kidney in a person due to having undergone nephrectomy for the purpose of transplantation of his kidney into the body of another living person.
“patient” means a person to whom a notification referred to in regulation 3 relates;
“recipient” means the person into whose body a patient’s kidney is or will be transplanted;
“single kidney — post nephrectomy (donor)” refers to the absence of a kidney in a person due to having undergone nephrectomy for the purpose of transplantation of his kidney into the body of another living person.
Form, time and manner of notification for single kidney — post nephrectomy (donor)
For the purposes of section 6(1) of the Act, a notification by the manager of a healthcare institution to the Registrar that a person has undergone nephrectomy for the purpose of transplantation into the body of another living person or is undergoing any treatment for single kidney — post nephrectomy (donor), at the healthcare institution shall —
contain, in relation to that patient, the information specified in the First Schedule;
be made in any of the Forms set out in the Second Schedule or at the Registry’s Internet website at http://www.nrdo.gov.sg;
be sent to the Registrar —
by hand (including by courier);
by registered mail; or
by using such secure electronic notification system as may be approved by the Registrar; and
be made within the following time:
where the patient has undergone nephrectomy, not later than 3 months after the nephrectomy; or
where the patient is undergoing treatment for single kidney — post nephrectomy (donor) in the healthcare institution, not later than 3 months after the first of such treatments received by the patient at that healthcare institution on or after 1st November 2009.
Collection of additional information under section 7 of Act
Upon receiving a notification referred to in regulation 3, the Registrar or an authorised Registry officer may, for the purposes of section 7(1) of the Act, require the manager of the healthcare institution who made the notification to provide all or any of the additional information specified in the Third and Fourth Schedules concerning the patient.