Application for Registration

(1) Every person intending to establish a new clinical establishment shall make an application for provisional registration, in such manner and form and with such fee, as may be prescribed, to the District Registering Authority, who on being satisfied about the information contained in such application, may issue a provisional registration which will remain valid for Six months, within which period the District Registering Authority shall require the District Supervising Team to make an inspection, who will then after necessary inspection, in such manner, as may be prescribed, submit its report to the District Registering Authority; (2) If the District Registering Authority is satisfied that all the required standards and conditions are fulfilled, it may take further action according the procedure prescribed for registration under this chapter: (3) But if the District Registering Authority, on the basis of the report of the District Supervising Team, is satisfied that all the required standards and conditions are not fulfilled, he may by order extend the period of validity of such provisional registration for a further period of Six months and direct the applicant to take necessary corrective measures within such date and time, as may be specified in that order; (4) If an applicant fails to make necessary corrections, within the extended period also, the applicant shall be treated as a defaulter for making any application for registration for a subsequent period of one year, which shall be communicated in writing to the applicant; (5) All applicant, who holds a valid provisional registration and is not declared as a defaulter according to sub-section (4), may make an application for registration, in such manner, form and shall be accompanied by such fee, as may be prescribed; (6) Registration of Clinical establishment issued once shall be valid for five years in respect of Hospitals and three years in respect of all other categories of Clinical Establishment on receipt of an application for registration or renewal of the same, the District Registering Authority may require the District Supervising Team to make an inspection, who will then after necessary inspection, in such manner, as may be prescribed, submit its report, to the District Registering Authority and the District Registering Authority, if satisfied that all the required standards and conditions are fulfilled, shall forward the same to the Director, Family Welfare & Preventive Medicine for approval; (7) After the approval of the Director, Family Welfare & Preventive Medicine, the District Registering Authority shall issue the registration; (8) If any application fails to fulfil the criteria during the time of inspection by the District Supervising Team, then the establishment may be given three months more time to fulfil the latches, after which the supervising team will inspect or examine the latches detected during the previous inspection and if any applicant fails in the subsequent inspection also, then his application will be treated as cancelled, but such cancellation will not be a bar for applying for a new provisional registration, with prescribed fee. (9) Notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter, a clinical establishment already holding a valid registration under the Tripura Clinical Establishment Act, 1976, hereby repealed, shall make an application for registration under this Act, on the due date of renewal of his registration under the Act, so repealed.