Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 · Updated to 1 Dec 2015 · Part II · Control of Private Healthcare Facilities and Services
5. Unlicensed and unregistered private healthcare facility or service
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
A person who contravenes section 3 or 4 commits an offence and shall be liable, on conviction—
in the case of an individual person—
to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six years or to both; and
for a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction;
and
in the case of a body corporate, partnership or society—
to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand ringgit; and
for a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.
Where an offence under section 3 or 4 is committed by a body corporate, a partnership or a society—
body corporate
“body corporate” means a body incorporated under the Companies Act 1965;
in the case of a body corporate, the person responsible for the body corporate;
in the case of a partnership, every partner in the partnership;
in the case of a society, its office bearers, shall also be guilty of the offence and shall be liable, on conviction—
to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six years or to both;
and
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for a continuing offence, to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.
Terms defined in s 2
body corporate
Defined · s 2“body corporate” means a body incorporated under the Companies Act 1965;
person responsible for the body corporate
Defined · s 2“person responsible for the body corporate” means any person who is a director or officer of the body corporate or who purports to act in any such capacity or who is in any manner or to any extent responsible for the management of the affairs of the body corporate, or was assisting in such management;
private healthcare facility
Defined · s 2“private healthcare facility” means any premises, other than a Government healthcare facility, used or intended to be used for the provision of healthcare services or health-related services, such as a private hospital, hospice, ambulatory care centre, nursing home, maternity home, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, community mental health centre, haemodialysis centre, medical clinic, dental clinic and such other healthcare or health-related premises as the Minister may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, specify;
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Registration of a Private Medical Clinic and a Private Dental Clinic
Part VI
Responsibilities of a Licensee, Holder of Certificate of Registration and Person in Charge
Part VII
General Provisions Relating to Approval, Licence and Registration
Part VIII
Part IX
Closure of Private Healthcare Facilities or Services
Part X
Blood Bank
Part XI
Blood Transfusion Services
Part XII
Mortality Assessment
Part XIII
Quality of Healthcare Facilities and Services
Part XIV
Board of Management and Advisory Committee
Part XV
Managed Care Organization
Part XVI
Enforcement
Part XVII
Power of Minister
Part XVIII
Miscellaneous
Part XIX