(1) This Act applies
to any private hospital howsoever founded or maintained (whether wholly or
partly by or under governmental authority or otherwise), but does not apply to
a hospital used exclusively in connection with a prison.
[(2) deleted]
(3) The Minister may
by notice published in the Gazette declare that any institution is not a
nursing home for the purposes of this Act.
[Section 3 inserted: No. 33 of 1972 s. 6; amended:
No. 28 of 1984 s. 50; No. 53 of 1985 s. 16; No. 49 of 1994 s. 4; No. 69 of
1996 s. 42; No. 11 of 2016 s. 263.]