No. S 389
Central Provident Fund Act
(CHAPTER 36)
Central Provident Fund
(Medisave Account Withdrawals)
(Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2020
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1)(j) of the Central Provident Fund Act, the Minister for Manpower, after consulting with the Central Provident Fund Board, makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations are the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2020 and are deemed to have come into operation on 23 March 2020.
Amendment of regulation 2
2.  Regulation 2(1) of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (Rg 17) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after the definition of “approved rehabilitation treatment”, the following definition:
“ “approved remote consultation”, in relation to any approved chronic illness treatment provided on an out‑patient basis, means any treatment received by a patient from an approved medical practitioner as a patient of an approved CIT medical institution via —
(a)any video‑conferencing service;
(b)any website, web service or Internet application; or
(c)any other kind of electronic communication or other technology for facilitating communication,
that is approved for that treatment by the Minister charged with the responsibility for health;”.
Amendment of regulation 14
3.  Regulation 14(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “in an approved CIT medical institution”, the words “or by way of approved remote consultation”.
Amendment of regulation 24
4.  Regulation 24(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “at an approved CIT medical institution” in sub‑paragraph (f), the words “or by way of approved remote consultation”.
[G.N. Nos. S 224/2007; S 527/2007; S 731/2007; S 149/2008; S 456/2008; S 682/2008; S 86/2009; S 239/2009; S 523/2009; S 659/2009; S 88/2010; S 118/2010; S 289/2010; S 548/2010; S 367/2011; S 725/2011; S 107/2013; S 482/2013; S 623/2013; S 427/2014; S 872/2014; S 177/2015; S 625/2015; S 377/2016; S 530/2016; S 723/2016; S 340/2017; S 789/2017; S 145/2018; S 341/2018; S 730/2018; S 787/2018; S 397/2019; S 200/2020]
Made on 20 May 2020.
AUBECK KAM
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.
[Plg&Pol/CPFPol/Legis/CPFSL/2020; AG/LEGIS/SL/36/2020/3 Vol. 1]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 78(2) of the Central Provident Fund Act).