(1)A certificate of registration shall not be heritable.
(2) Where the holder of a certificate of registration (hereinafter referred to as the certificate holder) is unable to function as such for any reason or where a certificate holder dies, the certificate holder, as the case may be, the legal representative of such certificate holder shall forthwith report the matter in the prescribed manner to the supervising authority and, notwithstanding anything contained sub-section (1), the clinical establishment concerned may continue to be maintained shall be deem to be a registered clinical establishment—
(a) for a period of three months from the date of such report or, in the case of the death of the certificate holder, from the date of his death, or
(b) if an application made in accordance with sub-section (3), for a certificate of registration, is pending of the expiry of the period specified in clause (a), till the disposal of such application.
(3) The legal representative of the certificate holder referred to in sub-section (2) shall, if he intends to continue the maintenance of the clinical establishment after the expiry of the period referred to in subsection (2), make, at least one moth before the expiry of such period, an application to the supervising authority for the grant of a fresh certificate of registration for the maintenance of such establishment and the provisions of Section 5 shall apply in relation to such application as they apply in relation to an application made under Section 4.
(4) Every certificate of registration shall, unless revoked earlier under Section 8 or deemed to be revoked under the first proviso to subsection (1) of Section 5 be valid for a period 1[of five years] with effect from the date on which it is granted.
1[ "Provided that the certificate holder who has been granted with certificate of registration before the commencement of the Odisha Clinical Establishments (Control and regulation) Amendment Act, 2016, irrespective of the fact whether validity period has expired or not shall apply within six months from the date of such commmencement for renewal of the certificate of registration for the remainder period on payment of such fee as may be prescribed."; and]
(5) A certificate of registration may be renewed from time to time, on an application made in that behalf to the supervising authority, in such form and accompanied by such fee, as may be prescribed, and every such application shall be made 2["not less than six months"] before the date on which the period of validity of the certificate of registration is due to expire :
Provided that the renewal of a certificate registration shall not be refused unless the supervising authority is satisfied that the certificate holder—
(i) is not in a position to comply the requirements envisaged in Section 5; or
(ii) has contravened any of the provisions of this Act or any rules made thereunder.