JUDGEMENT
ADARSH KUMAR GOEL,J. -
(1.) THIS petition seeks declaration that the Clinical Establishments
(Registration and Regulation) Act, 2010 is ultra vires the Constitution.
(2.) CASE of the petitioners is that they are medical practitioners having their clinics. The Act lays down the requirement of seeking registration,
providing for penal consequences in absence of registration. Registration
can be granted only on fulfillment of conditions lays down under the Act.
Section 12 (2) of the Act requiring facilities to stablise the emergency
medical condition of any individual who is brought to clinical
establishment.
According to the learned counsel for the petitioners requirement of providing for facilities for stablisation of emergency medical condition
of an individual is arbitrary and interference with the right of the
petitioners to carry on their profession. The petitioners are only
running their clinics and they may not be able to provide for facilities
for stablising the emergency medical condition of individuals who are
brought to such clinics. Those who cannot provide such facilities cannot
be debarred from carrying on their medical profession.
(3.) CLINICAL establishment as defined under Section 2(c) covers various types of clinical establishment. Facilities for stablising, expected to
be provided in each such establishment, will obviously mean facilities
expected from the type of clinical establishment run, by an institution
or an individual. An individual medical practitioner may not be expected
to do something impossible by providing facilities at par with a big
hospital. Interpretation of a statutory provision depends upon situation
which may arise. The provisions of the Act do not create any impossible
situation so as to affect the right of the petitioners to practice the
medical profession. There is, thus, no ground to interfere at this stage.
The individual fact situation can be considered as and when the same
arises.
The writ petition is dismissed.
Petition dismissed.;
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