Clinical Laboratory Act of 1966

Clinical Laboratory Act of 1966

• it is known as RA 4688

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• How many sections does RA 4688 have?

June 18, 1966

• When was RA 4688 approved?

Section 1

• Any person, firm or corporation, operating and maintaining clinical laboratory shall register and secure a license annually at the office of the Secretary of Health.

• Government hospital laboratories doing routine or minimum laboratory examinations shall be exempt from the provisions of this section if their services are extensions of government regional or central laboratories.

Section 2

• It shall be unlawful for any person to be professionally in-charge of a registered clinical laboratory unless he is a licensed physician duly qualified in laboratory medicine and authorized by the Secretary of Health, such authorization to be renewed annually.

Section 3

• The Secretary of Health, through the Bureau of Research and Laboratories shall be charged with the responsibility of strictly enforcing the provisions of this Act and shall be authorized to issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out its provision.

Section 4

• Any person, firm or corporation who violates any provision of this Act or the rules and regulations issued thereunder by the Secretary of Health shall be punished with imprisonment for not less than 1 month but not more than 1 year, or by a fine of not less than 1 thousand pesos nor more than 5 thousand pesos, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.

Section 5

• If any section or part of this Act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof.

Section 6

• The sum of fifty thousand pesos, or so must thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this Act.

Section 7

• All Acts or parts of Acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Section 8

• This Act shall take upon its approval.