16. Regulations

The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for carrying out the purposes of this Act, and in particular, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, for the following matters:

to regulate the formation, entries and maintenance of the register and the roll which may respectively consist of such parts as the Board may determine from time to time;

to regulate the courses of training and the conduct of examinations, and to prescribe the places and times of nursing and midwifery examinations;

to appoint examiners;

to regulate the method of application for admission to the register or the roll for persons trained both in and outside Singapore;

to prescribe the issue and form of certificates;

to regulate the practice, conduct and discipline of nurses and midwives;

to prescribe the procedure by which the names of nurses and midwives may be removed from and restored to the register or the roll, cautioned, censured or suspended;

to define the emergencies in which a midwife shall call in a registered medical practitioner to her assistance;

to prescribe fees for examinations and for registration in, retention in and restoration of name to the register or the roll and for the issue of certificates; and

to regulate, supervise and restrict the practice of midwifery and nursing.