Amendment
of Short
Title.
Repeal and replacement of section 2.
Amendment
of section 3.
4.
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Section 1 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of "Nursing" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"Hospitals, Nursing Homes".
5. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following—
"Interpreta tion.
(G.N.A. 143/60).
(57 of 1960).
(27 of 1961).
6.
2, (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- "hospital" means any establishment for the care of the sick, injured or infirm or those who require medical treat- ment, including a nursing home, but does not include any hospital maintained by the Crowns "maternity home' means any premises used or intended to be used for the reception of pregnant women or of women immediately after childbirth, but does not in- clude any matemity home maintained by the Crown; "pupil midwife" means a woman whose name is registered with the Midwives Board under regulation 8 of the Midwives (Registration and Disciplinary Procedure) Regulations 1960:
"register" and "registration” mean register and registration
under this Ordinance:
"registered midwife” means a woman who is registered or doomed to have been registered as a midwife under or in accordance with section 8 of the Midwives Registra- tion Ordinance 1960;
"registered nurse" means a nurse whose name appears in Part I of the register of ourses maintained in accord- ance with section 5 of the Nurses Registration Ordinance 1961.
(2) In relation to any premises used or intended to be used solely for the reception of, and the provision of nursing for, a class of patients in whose case the requisite nursing can be suitably and adequately provided by ourses of a class whose names are contained in some part of the register of nurses maintained in accordance with section 5 of the Nurses Registration Ordinance 1961 other than Part 1 of that register, references in the definition "registered ourse" to Part I of the register of nurses shall be construed as including references to that other part of the register.”.
Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(d) in subsection (2)-
(i) by the deletion of “, and shall be accompanied by a fee of five dollars"; and
(i) by the deletion of "and separate fees shall be paid in respect of each";
(b) by the insertion, after subsection (2), of the following new
subsection-
"(2A) Every application for registration shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty dollars, whether a hospital or a maternity home or both a hospital and a maternity home will be carried on in the premises to which the application refers.”;
(c) in subsection (3)——
(i) by the deletion of "the nursing home or maternity home named in the application and issue him a certificate of regis- tration" and the substitution therefor of the following—
"the hospital or maternity home named in the application, subject to such conditions relating to the accommodation, staffing or equipment thereof as he thinks fit, and issue to the applicant a certificate of registration, in which such conditions shall be set forth":
(i) by the deletion of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the proviso thereto and the substitution therefor of the following- "(a) that the applicant or any person employed by him at the hospital or maternity home is not a fit person to carry on or to be employed at a hospital or malemnity home of such a description as the hospital or maternity home named in the application: or
(b) that for reasons connected with situation, construc- tion, accommodation, staffing or equipment the bos- pital or maternity home, or any premises used io connexion therewith, is or are not fit to be used for or in connexion with a hospital or maternity home of such a description as the hospital or maternity home named in the application, or that the hospital or maternity home, or any premises used in connexion therewith, is or are used or to be used for purposes which are in any way improper or undesirable in the case of such a hospital or maternity home; or (c) in the case of a hospital, that the hospital is not under the charge of a person who is either a duly qualified medical practitioner or a registered nurse and who is resident in the hospital, or that there is not a proper proportion of registered nurses among the persons having the superintendence of or employ- ed in the nursing of the patients in the hospital; or": and
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