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Register of

clinics.

Registration of clinics.

4. (1) The Registrar shall cause a register of clinics to be kept in such form as shall be prescribed containing names and addresses and such other particulars as may be prescribed of applicants who have been registered.

(2) The Registrar shall be responsible for the maintenance and custody of the register of clinic.

(3) The Registrar shall cause to be published in the Gazette- (4) as soon as may be after the first day of January of every year a list of clinics registered under section 5 and of clinica exempted under section 8; and

(6) notification of any exemption granted or cancellation thereof under section 8 or of any cancellation of registration under section 9.

(4) A certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Registrar that a clinic is registered or is not registered or is exempted or is not exempted shall be evidence of the facts set out therein until the contrary is proved.

5. (1) Application for registration as a clinic shall be made to the Registrer in such form as he may prescribe, and such form shall require a statement of the objects of the clinic to be included.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the Registrar shall on receipt of an application for registration, register the applicant in respect of the clinic named in the application, subject to such coo- ditions, if any, as he may impose, and issue to the applicant a certificate of registration in the prescribed form:

Provided that the Registrar may refuse to register the applicant if be is satisfied-

(2) that the applicant or any person employed by him at the clinic is not a fit person, whether by reason of age or otherwise, to carry on or to be employed at a clinics or

(b) that for reasons connected with situation, construction, accom- modation, staffing or equipment, the premises to be used in connexion with the clinic are not fit to be used for the purposes of a clinic or that such premises are used or to be used for purposes which are in any way improper or undesir able in the case of a clinics or

(c) that the clinic will not be under the continuous personal super-

vision of a registered medical practitioner; or

(d) that-

(1) the income derived or to be derived from the establish- ment or operation of the clinic is not, or will not be, applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the clinic; or

(i) any portion of such income, except payment in good faith of remuneration to any such properly employed registered medical practitioners, persons employed pursuant to an exemption granted under section 8, nurses and menial servants working in the clinic, is, or will be, paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise howsoever by way of profit to the applicant himself, or to any persons properly so employed, or to any other persons howsoever.

(3) In the case of a clinic run by a registered trade union ex- clusively for its members and the families of such members, the Registrar shall not refuse registration solely on the grounds set out in paragraph (d) of subsection (2) where the income derived or to be derived from the establishment or operation of the clinic and remaining after expenditure for the purposes permitted in such paragraph (4) is or will be applied solely for the purposes authorized in paragraph (

of section 33 of the Trade Unions Registration Ordinance, 1961 and (32 of 1960).

so applied in such a manner that no part thereof shall be paid to or

for the benefit of any person employed in such clinic.

(4) The current certificate of registration issued in respect of a clinic shall be kept affixed in a conspicuous place at the clinic,

6. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 9, a registration shall, Period of as indicated by the Registrar on the certificate of registration, be valid registration.

(a) until the end of the year in which it is made, and any person registered in respect of a clinic who desires to continue to be so registered for any subsequent year shall make application for re-registration during the first week of the month of December, or, for good reason shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar, at such later date as the Registrar may allow; or

(b) for such months in any one year and such extended periods thereof, if any, as the Registrar in his absolute discretion may allow.

(2) The Registrar may, in his absolute discretion-

(c) when granting re-registration under paragraph (a) of sub-

section ()); or

(b) when extending the period of validity under paragraph (5)

of subsection (1).

impose conditions or amend conditions already imposed.