Renewal of registration of hospital or tissue bank.

(1) An application for the renewal of a certificate of registration shall be made to the Appropriate Authority at least three months prior to the date of expiry of the original certificate of registration and shall be accompanied by a fee as specified below, payable to the Appropriate Authority by means of a bank draft, which may be revised, if necessary by the Central or State Government, as the case may be,- (i) for Organ or Tissue or Cornea Transplant Centre: Rs. 5,000; (ii) for Tissue or Eye Bank: Rs. 5,000; (iii) for Non-Transplant Retrieval Centre: Nil. (2) A renewal certificate of registration shall be as specified in Form 17 and shall be valid for a period of five years. (3) If, after an inquiry including inspection of the hospital or tissue bank and scrutiny of its past performance and after giving an opportunity to the applicant, the Appropriate Authority is satisfied that the applicant, since grant of certificate of registration under sub-rule (2) of rule 24 has not complied with the requirements of the Act and these rules and the conditions subject to which the certificate of registration has been granted, shall, for reasons to be recorded in writing, refuse to grant renewal of the certificate of registration.