Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
No person shall keep or carry on a clinical establish- ment without being registered in respect thereof and except under and in accordance with the terms of a license granted therefor, y 4, (2) Every application for registration in respect of auy clinical establishment and for ‘the grant of a license therefor shall be made to such authority (hereinafter referred to as the prescribed authority), shall contain such particulars and shall be accompanied by such fee as may be prescribed, (2) The prescribed authority, if satished that the applicant and the clinical establishment fulfil such conditions as may be prescribed, shall register the applicant in respect of such clinieal establishment and shall grant him a license therefor and the registration and the license shall be valid for such period as may be prescribed. (3) The prescribed authority may reject an application if he is satisfied— (a) that the applicant or the clinical establishment does not fulfil the conditions preseribed under sub- section (2); ° (6) that the real object of the applicant is to use or allow the clinical establishment to be used for immoral purposes; (c) in the case of a nursing home other than a maternity home that such nursing home is not or will not be under the charge of a registered medical practi- tioner resident therein and that the nursing of persons received aud accommodated therein is "not or will not be under the superintendence of a registered nurse resident therein; or (d) in the ease of a maternity home that such maternity home is not or will not be under the charge of a registered midwife and that the attendance on every womau before, at, or after child-birth or on any child born is not or will not be under the superintendence of a registered midwife resident therein ; and shall in every case where the application is tejected record the grounds for rejection. Bon. Act VI of 1914. Ben. Act XK of 1984, Ge ne eRe ns Seen re ae mee ST Ee emanate oaBigr The West Bengal Clinical Establishments Act, 1950. 8 LVI of 1850.] . (Sections 5—7.) (4) An appeal shall le to such authority as may- be specitied in this behalf, against the rejection of an applica- tion under sub-section (3) and any order passed: on such appeal shall be final and shall not be questioned in any Court. ‘ (6) Every license granted under sub-section (2) shall be upon such terms as may be prescribed and such terms may, imer alia, require— (a) such precautions to be observed for safeguarding that the clinical establishment is not used for immoral purposes, such sanitary and hygienic meastres to be taken and such accommodation to be provided, as may be specified; (b) in the case of nursing homes, records to be kept of persons received and accommodated and intima- tion to be given to specified authorities of births, deaths and miscarriages therein; (c) in the case of physical therapy establishments, records to be kept of persons treated therein. & If at any time after any person has been registered in respect of any clinical establishment and granted a license therefor, the prescribed authority is satisfied that the terms of the license are not being complied with, he may cancel such registration and license.