Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Registration (1) subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules, the supervising authority shall on the receipt of an application for registration, register the applicant in respect of the nursing home named in the application and issue to him a certificate of registration the prescribed form; Provided that the supervising authority may refuse to register the applicant if it is satisfied:- (a) That the applicant, or any person employed by him at the nursing home, is not a fit person to carry in or to be employed at a nursing home of such a description as the nursing home named in the application; or (b) That the nursing home is not under the supervision of a person who is a qualified medical practitioner and he or a qualified nurse is not resident in the home, or that there is not a proper proportion of qualified nurses among the persons having the superintendence of or employed in the nursing of the patients in the home; or (c) That in the case of a maternity home it has not got its staff a qualified midwife and a qualified medical practitioner; or (d) That for reasons connected with the situation, construction, accommodation, staff of equipment, the nursing home or any premises used in connection therewith is or are not fit to be used for a nursing home of such a description as the nursing home mentioned in the application or that the nursing home or premises is or are used or to be used for purposes which are in any way improper or undesirable in the case of such nursing home. {2) A certificate of registration issued under the section shall, subject to the provisions of section 7, is in force and shall be valid until the 31st day of March next following the date on which such certificate was issued. 3 (3) The certificate of registration issued in respect of "a nursing home” shall be kept affixed in a conspicuous place in the nursing home.