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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:- 17. Application procedure for licenses of existing health facilities.---(1) The existing healthcare establishment shall be awarded license on the production of a certificate issued by Pakistan Medical Commission. (2) For meeting the mutually agreed standards for issuance of license, an appropriate and reasonable period of time shall be allowed to the applicant, keeping in view the ground realities regarding the availability of trained human recourse, improvement of the existing human resource and all other allied factors according to the minimum delivery standards as notified by the Commission: Provided that the period allowed may vary, considering the nature of the establishment and availability of appropriate human resource that is to say tertiary to primary and big city to small town.