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Care Centres Act 1993 s 7

Care Centres Act 1993 s 7

Text recovered by OCR from a scanned copy — section numbers and wording may be wrong. Check the official PDF on lom.agc.gov.my before citing.

s 7

The Director General, when registering a care centre, Conditions may impose such conditions as he thinks fit and proper, to be imposed. including conditions— (a) limiting the number of persons who may be received at the care centre at any time; (b) to ensure that any person employed at the care centre, whether in its management or otherwise, is a fit and proper person, whether as regards age or otherwise, to be employed at the care centre; (c) to ensure that the care centre will be adequately staffed by a sufficient number of persons with suitable qualifications or experience; (d) to ensure that the services for the care, control, custody, treatment, and training of the residents or the persons received for care at the care centre are well provided; (e) to ensure that adequate and balanced diets and sufficient rest and recreation are provided at the care centre; (f) to ensure that the care centre will be adequately and suitably equipped and maintained, particularly in the interests of health; (g) to ensure that adequate arrangements will be made for suitable and proper medical treatment, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, occupational therapy, or any other treatment, within a reasonable time, in respect of any ailment suffered by the residents or persons received for care at the care centre; (h) to ensure compliance at the care centre with any requirement of law orof any authority relating to the structure of the building, fire precautions, health, sanitation, and safety; (i) requiring the payment of such sum of money as may be determined by the Director General as a security deposit to ensure the compliance by the operator with the provisions of the Act, the regulations made under section 24, and the conditions imposed under this section, and for the protection and in the interests of the residents and persons received for care at the care centre. Register of 8. (1) The Director General shall cause to be kept, in care centres. such form as he may specify,- (a) a register of residential care centres; and (b) a register of day care centres, registered under this Act containing, in respect of each centre— (i) the name and address of the operator of the care centre; (ii) the name and address of the care centre; and (iii) such other particulars as the Director General thinks necessary. (2) A copy of or an extract from an entry in the register purporting to be certified under the hand of the Director General shall, until the contrary is proved, be admitted in evidence as proof of the facts stated therein as at the date of the certificate. Inspection of register.

Malay text (authoritative)

Ketua Pengarah, apabila mendaftar sesuatu pusat Syarat-syarat jagaan, boleh mengenakan apa-apa syarat sebagaimana untuk dikenakan. yang difikirkannya layak dan sesuai, termasuklah syaratsyarat— (a) yang menghadkan bilangan orang yang boleh diterima di pusat jagaan itu pada bila-bila masa; (b) untuk memastikan bahawa mana-mana orang yang diambil kerja di pusat jagaan itu, sama ada dalam pengurusannya atau selainnya, adalah orang yang layak dan sesuai, sama ada tentang umur atau selainnya, untuk diambil kerja di pusat jagaan itu; (c) untuk memastikan bahawa pusat jagaan itu akan dilengkapi secukupnya, dari segi kakitangan, dengan secukup bilangan orang yang mempunyai kelayakan atau pengalaman yang sesuai; Undang-undang Malaysia AktA 506 (d) untuk memastikan bahawa perkhidmatanperkhidmatan bagi jagaan, kawalan, penyeliaan, layanan, dan latıhan penghuni-penghuni atau orang-orang yang diterima untuk jagaan di pusat jagaan itu diberi dengan baik; (e) untuk memastikan bahawa diet yang cukup dan seimbang dan rehat dan rekreasi yang cukup disediakan di pusat jagaan itu; (f) untuk memastikan bahawa pusat jagaan itu akan dilengkapkan dan disenggarakan dengan cukup sesuai khususnya demi kepentingan kesihatan; (g) untuk memastikan bahawa perkiraan-perkiraan yang cukup akan dibuat untuk rawatan perubatan, fisioterapi, psikoterapi, terapi pekerjaan atau apa-apa rawatan lain yang sesuai wajar, dalam masa yang munasabah, berkenaan dengan apa-apa penyakit yang dihidapi oleh penghuni-penghuni atau orangorang yang diterima untuk jagaan di pusat jagaan; (h) untuk memastikan pematuhan di pusat jagaan itu akan àpa-apa kehendak undang-undang atau mana-mana pihak berkuasa berhubungan dengan binaan bangunan, langkah-langkah berjaga-jaga kebakaran, kesihatan, sanitasi, dan keselamatan; (i) yang menghendaki pembayaran sejumlah wang sebagaimana yang ditentukan oleh Ketua Pengarah sebagai deposit jaminan untuk memastikan pematuhan oleh pengendali akan peruntukan-peruntukan Akta, peraturanperaturan yang dibuat di bawah seksyen 24, dan syarat-syarat yang dikenakan di bawah seksyen ini, dan untuk perlindungan dan demi kepentingan penghuni-penghuni dan orangorang yang diterima untuk jagaan di pusat jagaan.

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Find Act 506 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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