10. (1) Any person intending to establish a private clinic shall apply in the prescribed form to the Director-General for a licence. (2) The owner of a private clinic already in existence shall, on or before the 30th June, 1982, apply in the prescribed form to the Director-General for a licence. (3) The Director-General may, on receipt of an application under sub-section (1) or (2), make such enquiries as he considers necessary, and shall grant the application, if he is satisfied that the conditions for running a clinic as mentioned in section 9 have been fulfilled, or, by order, reject it, if he is not so satisfied. (4) If the Director-General grants the application, he shall issue, in the prescribed form, a licence to the applicant. (5) A private clinic already in existence shall close down after the 30th June, 1982, unless an application for a licence has been made under sub-section (2). (6) Where an application for a licence made under sub-section (2) is rejected, the clinic shall close down after the expiry of thirty days from the date of receipt of the order of such rejection and if an appeal against such order is preferred under section 12, and such appeal is rejected, the clinic shall close down on the date of receipt of the order of such rejection.