OBJECTS AND REASONS

This Bill would amend the Health Services Act, Cap. 44, to enable the Minister to make regulations, with respect to facilities for the treatment of persons with an addiction to or a dependency on drugs or other substances.

Arrangement of Sections

Short title

Amendment of section 10 of Cap. 44

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BARBADOS

A Bill entitled

An Act to amend the Health Services Act, Cap. 44, to enable the Minister to make regulations with respect to facilities for the treatment of persons with an addiction to or a dependency on drugs or other substances.

ENACTED by the Parliament of Barbados as follows:

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Health Services (Amendment) Act, 2015.

Amendment of section 10 of Cap. 44

Section 10 of the Health Services Act is amended in subsection (1), by deleting paragraph (w) and substituting the following:

providing for the licensing, management, operation, control and inspection of

private hospitals;

nursing homes;

senior citizens’ homes;

maternity homes; and

facilities for the treatment of persons with an addiction to or a dependency on drugs or other substances; ”.

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Read three times and passed the House of Assembly this day of , 2015.

Speaker

Read three times and passed the Senate this day of , 2015.

President

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