Singapore legislation

Regulation 3

of National Registry of Diseases (Single Kidney — Post Nephrectomy (Donor) Notification) Regulations 2009

Regulation 3

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 —

(a)

contain, in relation to that patient, the information specified in the First Schedule;

(b)

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;

(c)

be sent to the Registrar —

(i)

by hand (including by courier);

(ii)

by registered mail; or

(iii)

by using such secure electronic notification system as may be approved by the Registrar; and

(d)

be made within the following time:

(i)

where the patient has undergone nephrectomy, not later than 3 months after the nephrectomy; or

(ii)

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.