PRELIM: REPUBLIC ACT No. 4688 Flashcards
An act Regulating the Operation and
Maintenance of Clinical Laboratories and Requiring the Registration of the Same
with the Department of Health, Providing
Penalty for the Violation Thereof, and for
Other Purposes
REPUBLIC ACT No. 4688
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4688 contains _____ sections
8
Date of approval of RA 4688
June 18, 1966
RA 4688 Implementing Rules and Regulations?
o Administrative Order (A.O.) 201 series of 1973 (October 26, 1973)
o A.O. 49-B series of 1988 (October 25, 1988)
o A.O. 59 series of 2001 (November 19, 2001)
o A.O. 2007-0027 (August 22, 2007)
o Any person, firm or corporation operating and maintaining a clinical laboratory in which body fluids, tissues, secretions, excretions and radioactivity from beings or animals are analyzed for the determination of the presence of pathologic organisms, processes and/or conditions in the persons or animals from which they were obtained, SHALL REGISTER and SECURE A LICENSE ANNUALLY at the office of the SECRETARY OF HEALTH:
o Provided, That government hospital laboratories doing routine or minimum laboratory examinations shall be exempt from the provisions of this section if their services are extensions government regional or central laboratories
What section of RA 4688?
Section 1
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.
o No license shall be granted or renewed by the Secretary of Health for the operation and maintenance of a clinical laboratory unless such laboratory is under the administration, direction and supervision of an authorized physician, as provided for in the preceding paragraph.
What section of RA 4688?
SECTION 2
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 provisions.
What section of RA 4688?
SECTION 3
Section 4
o Any person, firm or corporation who violates any provisions of this Act or the rules and regulations issued thereunder by the Secretary of Health shall be punished with _____________________ such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court
IMPRISONMENT for not LESS THAN <1
MONTH BUT NOT MORE THAN > 1 year or by a fine of not <
1.000.00 pesos nor > 5,000.00 pesos, or
both
o If any section or part of this Act SHALL BE ADJUDGED OF ANY COURT of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,THE JUDGEMENT SHALL NOT AFFECT, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof.
What section of RA 4688?
SECTION 5
Section 6
o The sum of____________ , or so much 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.
50, 000 pesos
All Acts or parts of Acts which are INCONSISTENT with the provisions of this Act are hereby REPEALED.
What section of RA 4688?
SECTION 7
