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ACT XII OF 2019 ACT XII OF 2019 BALOCHISTAN HEALTHCARE COMMISSION ACT, 2019 An Act to improve quality of healthcare services and ban quackery in all its forms and manifestations in Balochistan [Gazette of Balochistan Extraordinary, 16th December, 2019] No. PAB / Legis; V(10) / 2019, dated 16.12.2019.---The Balochistan Health Care Commission Bill 2019 Bill No. 10 of 2019 having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on 18th November, 2019 and assented to by the Governor Balochistan, on 10th December, 2019 is hereby published as an Act of the Balochitsan Provincial Assembly. Preamble.---WHEREAS, it is expedient to make provisions for the improvement of quality of healthcare services, clinical governance and to ban medical or health quackery in all its forms and manifestations and to provide for establishment of the Balochistan Healthcare Commission and the matters connected or ancillary thereto; It is hereby enacted as follows:- 15. Registration.---(1) No healthcare service provider or healthcare establishment shall not provide healthcare services without being registered under this Act. (2) A person seeking to be registered as a healthcare service provider shall make an application to the Commission through the Chief Executive Officer in the prescribed proforma/form and accompanied by such particulars, documents as the Commission may prescribe. (3) If a person fulfils the requirements of this section, the Commission shall issue a certificate of registration to the person within thirty days, otherwise the applicant shall be considered as having provisionally registered. (4) The Commission may impose a fine as prescribed, upon a healthcare service provider or who pretends to be a healthcare service provider without registration. (5) Any practitioner in possession of a medical qualification that allows him to practice medicine and surgery in the European Union, Canada, UK, Australia, USA, or other competent country shall be eligible to do the same in the province of Balochistan without hindrance but will be responsible to provide good medical care with ethics under this Act. He shall be answerable to the authority for any quarries arising from the care provided to him under this Act. He will follow the regulation of this Act in the same manner as other applicable to other doctors working in the province, subject to registration with the Pakistan Medical Commission.