Clause 15
Amendment of Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act
of Statutes (Miscellaneous Amendments and Repeal) Bill
The Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act (Cap. 248, 1999 Ed.) is amended —
by deleting the definition of “private hospital” in section 2 and substituting the following definition:“ “private hospital” means any premises used or intended to be used for the reception, lodging and treatment and care of persons who require medical treatment or suffer from any disease, and includes a maternity home and a nursing home.”; and
by inserting, immediately after the word “premises” wherever it appears in the following provisions, the words “or conveyance”:sections 2 (definition of “licence”), 5(1) (1st line), 6(3)(c) and (d), (4)(a) and (b)(i).