35BDetermining application for NEPT licence

35B Determining application for NEPT licence

[Section 35B Inserted by No. 73 of 2013, s. 25, Applied:01 Jul 2014]

(1)  The Secretary must not grant a licence to provide non-emergency patient transport services unless satisfied that –

(a) if the applicant is a natural person, the applicant is a fit and proper person; or

(b) if the applicant is a body corporate, the chief executive officer and each director of the body corporate is a fit and proper person.

(2)  In determining an application under section 35A , the Secretary may consider the suitability of the following:

(a) the equipment and vehicles intended to provide the non-emergency patient transport services;

(b) the intended operating arrangements for staff of the NEPT Service and whether such arrangements comply with this Act;

(c) the intended arrangements for maintaining or improving the quality of the non-emergency patient transport services to be provided;

(d) the evaluation and monitoring processes intended to be in place in respect of the NEPT Service;

(e) any other matter or information the Secretary thinks relevant.