Grant or refusal of registration

(1) Subject to this Act, the Council may, on the receipt of an application for registration, approve of the registration of the applicant in respect of the nursing home named in the (2) The Council may, by order, refuse to approve of the registration of the applicant, if they are satisfied, (a) that he or any person employed, or proposed to be employed, by him at the nursing home is not a fit person, whether by reason of age, or otherwise, to carry on or to be employed at a nursing home of such a description as the nursing home named in the application; (b) that for reasons connected with situation, construction, state of repair, accommodation, staffing or equipment, the home or any premises used in connection therewith are not fit to be used for a nursing home of such a description as the nursing home named in the application, or that the home or premises are used or proposed to be used for purposes which are in any way improper, or undesirable in the case of such a nursing home; (c) in the case of a nursing home not being a maternity home, that the home is not, or will not be, under the charge of a person who is either a medical practitioner or a registered nurse and is or will be resident in the home, 7 or that there is not, or will not be, a proper proportion of registered nurses among the persons having the superintendence of, or employed in the nursing of, the patients in the home; or (d) in the case of a maternity home, that the person who has, or will have, the superintendence of the nursing of the patients in the home is not either a registered nurse or a registered midwife, or that any person employed, or proposed to be employed, in attending any woman in the home in childbirth, or in nursing any patient in the home, is not either a medical practitioner, a registered midwife, a pupil midwife, or a registered nurse. (3) An Application for registration of nursing home under this Act shall not be refused on the ground that the applicant is a national of a CARICOM Member State.