CareShield Life and Long‑Term Care (Supplement Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

No. S 809

CareShield Life and Long‑Term Care Act 2019

(ACT 26 OF 2019)

CareShield Life and Long‑Term Care
(Supplement Scheme)
(Amendment) Regulations 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 64 of the CareShield Life and Long‑Term Care Act 2019, the Minister for Health makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the CareShield Life and Long‑Term Care (Supplement Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 1 November 2021.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the CareShield Life and Long-Term Care (Supplement Scheme) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 850/2020) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definitions of “CareShield Life supplement premium” and “CareShield Life supplementary disability insurance policy”;

(b)

by deleting the words “CareShield Life” in the definition of “net premium”; and

(c)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “relevant insured person” and substituting a semi‑colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definitions:

“ “supplement premium” means any premium payable under a supplementary disability insurance policy;

“supplementary disability insurance policy” means any insurance policy provided by an approved insurer under a Supplement Scheme.”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “CareShield Life” (including the regulation heading); and
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the words “CSHL Scheme”, the words “or ESH Scheme”.

Amendment of regulation 4

4. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “CareShield Life supplementary” and substituting the word “supplementary”;

(b)

by deleting the words “CareShield Life supplement” and substituting the word “supplement”; and

(c)

by deleting the regulation heading and substituting the following regulation heading:

“Modes of payment for supplement premium”.

Amendment of regulation 11

5. Regulation 11(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting sub‑paragraph (d) and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:

“(d)

the CPF member, a dependant of the CPF member for whom the withdrawal is authorised or an approved insurer made a false or an inaccurate representation to the Board, or provided the Board with any inaccurate, incorrect or misleading information, in connection with the application for payment of a premium for the insurance cover of an insured person under any of the following disability insurance schemes to be deducted from the CPF member’s medisave account:

(i)	the CSHL Scheme;
(ii)	the ESH Scheme;
(iii)	a Supplement Scheme.”.

Miscellaneous amendments

6. The principal Regulations are amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “CareShield Life supplement premium” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “supplement premium”:

Regulation 5(1)

Regulation 6(1) and (2) and regulation heading

Regulation 8(2)

Regulation 9(1), (2), (3) and (4) and regulation heading

Regulation 11(1)(c)(i);

(b)

by deleting the words “CareShield Life supplement premiums” in regulation 5(3) and substituting the words “supplement premiums”; and

(c)

by deleting the words “CareShield Life supplementary” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “supplementary”:

Regulation 5(3)

Regulation 8(1) and regulation heading

Regulation 9(1) and (4)

Regulation 11(1)(c)(i).

Made on 27 October 2021.

CHAN YENG KIT

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[MH 111:08/11-6; AG/LEGIS/SL/31C/2020/2 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 64(4) of the CareShield Life and Long-Term Care Act 2019).

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