Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Subject to such regulations as may be prescribed, any officer of the State Government duly authorised in this behalf may enter any establishment which is being used or which such officer has reason to believe is being used as a clinical establishment and inspect any documents kept in such establishment ; Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise any person to inspect any medical record relating to a person undergoing medical treatment. (2) No person shall refuse to allow any officer as aforesaid to enter any establishment or to spect any documents which he is entitled to enter or to inspect and mo person shall obstruct any such officer in the exercise of his powers under sub-section (2). 7; (2) Any person— (a) who contravenes the provisions of section 3, or (b) who contravenes the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 6, or (c) being the holder of a license granted under this Act in respect of any clinical establishment, uses or allows such establishment to be used for immoral purposes, shall be guilty of an offence and shail— ‘Z) on conviction for a first offence be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or with both, and Cancel- lation of registretion and licome. Entry and inspection. Offences and ponsl- ties. oT 4 The West Bengal Clinical Establishments Act,