Singapore legislation

Section 12

of Nursing Homes and Maternity Homes Registration Act

Section 12

Regulations

(1)

The Minister may make regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act and without prejudice to such general powers may make regulations —

(a)

prescribing anything which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act;

(b)

prescribing the records to be kept of patients received into and of persons employed in a home, and, in the case of a maternity home, of any miscarriages or still-births occurring in the home, and of the children born therein and of the children so born who are removed from the home otherwise than to the custody or care of any parent, guardian or relative;

(c)

requiring notification to be given of any birth or death occurring in a home;

(d)

requiring minimum standards of siting, construction, accommodation, sanitation, water supply, lighting, staffing and equipment which minimum standards shall in no case be less than those prescribed by or under the Environmental Public Health Act [Cap. 95];

(e)

prescribing fees for registration; and

(f)

requiring any person by or to whom the business of maintaining or managing any home is transferred, sold or otherwise disposed of to furnish such particulars to the Director, and in such manner as may be laid down in such regulations.

(2)

Any person who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with the provisions of any regulations made under this Act shall be guilty of an offence.

(3)

All regulations made under this Act shall be published in the Gazette and shall be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication and if a resolution is passed pursuant to a motion notice whereof has been given for a sitting day not later than the first available sitting day of Parliament next after the expiry of one month from the date when the regulations are so presented annulling the regulations or any part thereof as from a specified date, the regulations or such part thereof, as the case may be, shall thereupon become void as from that date but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.

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