Parliament of Singapore

“ Every licensee that is authorised by a licence to provide a prescribed licensable healthcare service must appoint one or more suitably qualified individuals as the licensee’s Clinical Governance Officer or Clinical Governance Officers to be responsible for the clinical and technical matters relating to the prescribed licensable healthcare service, and is or are to perform the functions in relation to the licensee, as may be prescribed. ”

“ A licensee that provides a licensable healthcare service at any premises that is not licensed premises, or uses any conveyance that is not a licensed conveyance, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction—
(a) in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both; but (b) if the person has a previous qualifying conviction, to a fine not exceeding $100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both. ”

“ A licensee must keep and maintain records, for the prescribed period and in the prescribed manner, where the records are relevant to the monitoring or evaluation of any aspect of any licensable healthcare service or the provision of any licensable healthcare service. ”

“ In addition, every licence granted to a licensee to provide a special licensable healthcare service is subject to the condition that the licensee must at all times also be granted a licence for at least one of the licensable healthcare services prescribed as underlying to that special licensable healthcare service. ”

“ A transfer or an assignment, or a purported transfer or assignment, of a licence, or of any rights, benefits or privileges under the licence, is void and of no effect—
(a) if the licence is not capable of transfer or assignment; (b) if the transfer or assignment, or purported transfer or assignment, is in breach of a condition of the licence; or (c) if there has, before the transfer or assignment or purported transfer or assignment, been a contravention of a condition subject to compliance with which the consent required by subsection (1) is given. ”

“ No liability shall lie personally against—
(a) the Director; (b) any authorised officer; (c) any individual appointed under section 7 (5) to assist the Director in the administration of this Act; (d) any member of any quality assurance committee appointed by a section 25 licensee or any person acting under the direction of such a member; or (e) any member of an Appeal Advisory Board appointed by the Minister under section 49, who, acting in good faith and with reasonable care, does or omits to do anything in the execution or purported execution of this Act. ”

“ In subsection (1) , “clinical procedure”—
(a) means any procedure that only a medical practitioner, a dentist or an oral health therapist is authorised under any written law to perform and which involves any of the following: (i) puncture of the skin to inject, deliver, implant or anchor any substance or object into the human body, or to withdraw or remove blood, fluid or tissue from the human body; (ii) penetration of any human body orifice to deliver into or remove any substance from the body ”

“ Service of a document under this section takes effect—
(a) if the document is sent by fax and a notification of successful transmission is received, on the day of transmission; (b) if the document is sent by email, at the time that the email becomes capable of being retrieved by the person to whom the document is sent; and (c) if the document is sent by prepaid registered post, 2 days after the day the document was posted (even if it is returned undelivered) . ”

“ The Director may—
(a) issue one or more codes of practice applicable to all licensees or the licensees providing specified licensable healthcare services; (b) approve as a code of practice applicable to all licensees or the licensees providing specified licensable healthcare services any document prepared by a person other than the Director if the Director considers the document suitable for this purpose; or (c) amend or revoke any code of practice issued under paragraph (a) or approved under paragraph (b) , with respect to all or any of the matters in subsection (2) . ”

“ The Director or an authorised officer may seize from any premises or conveyance—
(a) any blood sample, blood product, human tissue or fluid, any product of the human body, dialysate, chemical, pharmaceutical or any other substance; (b) any container, article or other thing that the Director or authorised officer reasonably believes to contain or to have contained blood, blood product, human tissue or fluid, any product of the human body, dialysate, chemical, pharmaceutical or any other substance ”

“ Subsection (3) does not apply to a requirement made by any court, tribunal, board or person for the production of any document or the disclosure of any information in proceedings in respect of any act or omission by a quality assurance committee or by an individual as a member of a quality assurance committee, unless the Director directs otherwise. ”

“ In this section—
“medical information” means information about an individual that relates to the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, prevention or alleviation of an ailment, a condition, disability, disease or disorder or an injury affecting any part of the human body or mind; “representative”— (a) in relation to a deceased person, means his or her executor, administrator or next-of-kin; (b) in relation to an infant, means one of his or her parents or his or her guardian ”

“ The Director may appoint, subject to any restrictions specified in the appointment, a suitably qualified individual who is neither a public officer nor an officer of a public authority to assist the Director in the administration of this Act. ”

“ A document permitted or required by this Act to be served on a partnership (other than a limited liability partnership) may be served—
(a) by giving it to any partner or other similar officer of the partnership; (b) by leaving it at, or by sending it by prepaid registered post to, the partnership’s business address; (c) by sending it by fax to the fax number used at the partnership’s business address; or (d) by sending it by email to the partnership’s last email address. ”

“ Section 2 of the National Registry of Diseases Act (Cap. 201B, 2008 Ed.) is amended—
(a) by deleting the word “or” at the end of paragraph (a) of the definition of “healthcare institution”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph: “ (aa) any premises or conveyance specified in a licence granted under the Healthcare Services Act 2020; or”; and (b) by deleting the word “person” in the definition of “manager” and substituting the word “individual”. ”

“ To avoid doubt, this section does not affect the application of—
(a) Chapters V and VA of the Penal Code; or (b) the Evidence Act (Cap. 97) or any other law or practice regarding the admissibility of evidence. (5) To avoid doubt, subsection (2) also does not affect the liability of the corporation for an offence under this Act, and applies whether or not the corporation is convicted of the offence.
(6) In this section—
“corporation” includes a limited liability partnership within the meaning of section 2 (1) of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act (Cap. 163A) ”