Private Health Facilities Act 1999 (Qld)

Private Health Facilities Act 1999

An Act to provide for the regulation of private health facilities and for other purposes

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Private Health Facilities Act 1999.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3 Main object of Act and its achievement (1) The main object of this Act is to provide a framework for protecting the health and wellbeing of patients receiving health services at private health facilities. (2) The object is to be achieved mainly by— (a) enabling standards to be made for the provision of health services at private health facilities; and (b) requiring persons proposing to operate private health facilities to first hold approvals; and (c) requiring persons to hold licences for the operation of the facilities; and (d) providing for compliance with this Act to be monitored and enforced.

4 Outline of approval and licensing requirements (1) Only a licensee may operate a private health facility. Editor's note— See section 39 (Licences required to operate private health facilities). (2) Only the person operating the facility is required to be licensed (not, for example, another person who merely owns the facility). (3) A person may become the licensee of a private health facility only if— (a) the person first holds an approval for the facility; or (b) the person is the transferee of the licence for the facility; or Editor's note— See part 6 (Licences), division 7 (Dealings affecting licences), subdivision 3 (Transfers of licences). (c) the person is the personal representative of a deceased licensee's estate and is taken to be a licensee under section 75.