Short title, extent, commencement and application

(1) This Act may be called the Orissa Clinical Establishments (Control and Regulation) Act, 1991. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Orissa. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint. (4) It shall not apply to— (a) a clinical establishment which owned, controlled, managed or maintained by Government or any authority or body established or constituted by an Act or Parliament or of the State Legislature; (b) Psychiatric Hospital or Psychiatric Nursing Home established and licensed under the Mental Health Act, 1987. (c) a clinical establishment established and maintained by a qualified Medical Practitioner only for treatment of outpatient care without any admission facility.