Singapore legislation
Regulation 64
of Healthcare Services (Assisted Reproduction Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 64
Continuity of operations
Subregulation 1
A licensee must establish a contingency plan to ensure the following in the event of any disruption to the licensee’s operations:
the continuity of care for each of the licensee’s patients;
the preservation of safety and quality of any reproductive cell or embryo in the licensee’s custody.
Subregulation 2
Without limiting paragraph (1), the contingency plan mentioned in that paragraph must include the following matters:
contracts or other arrangements for or in relation to the prompt restoration of the licensee’s operations or the transfer of the licensee’s patients or reproductive cells or embryos in the licensee’s custody to another licensee;
processes to obtain the written consent of a patient for the proposed transfer of the patient’s care to another licensee;
processes to obtain the written consent of a patient or donor for the proposed transfer of the patient’s or donor’s reproductive cells or embryos to another licensee.