Mental Capacity Act |
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2019 |
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Citation and commencement |
1. These Regulations are the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into operation on 1 August 2019. |
Amendment of regulation 2 |
2. Regulation 2 of the Mental Capacity Regulations 2010 (G.N. No. S 105/2010) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended —
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Deletion and substitution of regulation 3 |
Amendment of regulation 4 |
4. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
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Amendment of regulation 7 |
5. Regulation 7(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “Subject to paragraph (2), the following persons” and substituting the words “For the purposes of paragraph 2(1)(e) of the First Schedule to the Act and subject to paragraph (2), the following persons are persons of a prescribed description who”. |
Amendment of regulation 8 |
6. Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (7A) and (7B) and substituting the following paragraphs:
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Amendment of regulation 10 |
7. Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations is amended —
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Amendment of regulation 11 |
8. Regulation 11 of the principal Regulations is amended —
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Amendment of regulation 13 |
9. Regulation 13(3) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “the donee” in sub‑paragraph (c) and substituting the words “the other donee”. |
Amendment of regulation 15 |
10. Regulation 15(2) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “paragraph (a) or (b) of” in sub‑paragraph (c). |
Deletion and substitution of regulation 17 |
11. Regulation 17 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
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Amendment of regulation 18 |
12. Regulation 18 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) and substituting the following paragraphs:
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Amendment of regulation 19 |
13. Regulation 19(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting sub‑paragraph (ii) of sub‑paragraph (a). |
Amendment of regulation 25 |
14. Regulation 25 of the principal Regulations is amended —
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New regulation 25A |
15. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 25, the following regulation:
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Amendment of regulation 26 |
16. Regulation 26(2) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “appropriate fee” in sub‑paragraph (b), the words “specified in the Mental Capacity (Public Guardian Fees) Regulations 2010”. |
Deletion of Schedule |
17. The Schedule to the principal Regulations is deleted. |
Miscellaneous amendments |
18. The principal Regulations are amended by deleting the words “set out” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “provided”:
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Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social and Family Development, Singapore. |
[MSF 076-083-01S; AG/LEGIS/SL/177A/2015/4 Vol. 1] |