Procedural priority of activity scope change over deregistration when violations relate only to new activity.

The Supreme Court set aside the lower court's decision to deregister a private hospital for violations occurring only in a newly declared activity scope. The hospital argued that the deregistration should take precedence over a pending scope change procedure, but the court found the violations did not affect the registered activity. Consequently, the court ruled that the procedure to change the activity scope must be handled first before any deregistration can occur. This decision established that administrative proceedings regarding activity modifications have priority when the alleged infractions pertain solely to unregistered activities.