Healthcare Services Act 2020 (Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023

No. S 835

Healthcare Services Act 2020

Healthcare Services Act 2020
(Saving and Transitional Provisions)
Regulations 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 60(2) of the Healthcare Services Act 2020, the Minister for Health makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations are the Healthcare Services Act 2020 (Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2023 and come into operation on 18 December 2023.

Reference in relation to nursing homes licensed under repealed Act, etc.

2.  Any reference in any written law to —

(a) a nursing home licensed under the repealed Act; or

(b) any premises that are —

(i) licensed as a private hospital under the repealed Act; and

(ii) used or intended to be used for the reception of, and the provision of nursing for, persons suffering or convalescing from any sickness, injury or infirmity,

is to be read as a reference to any permanent premises approved under a licence deemed granted under the Act (in accordance with paragraph 1(1) of the Third Schedule to the Act) authorising the provision of a nursing home service at those approved permanent premises.

Composition of offences under repealed Act

3.—(1)  Despite section 58 of the Act, section 20 of the repealed Act continues to apply to or in relation to any compoundable offence reasonably suspected to have been committed before 18 December 2023.

(2)  In paragraph (1), “compoundable offence” means an offence prescribed as a compoundable offence under the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics (Composition of Offences) Regulations (Rg 2) as in force immediately before 18 December 2023.

Made on 13 December 2023.

CHAN YENG KIT

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[MOH 78:44/1; AG/LEGIS/SL/122E/2020/46 Vol. 1]