Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

No. S 466

Central Provident Fund Act 1953

Central Provident Fund
(Medisave Account Withdrawals)
(Amendment) Regulations 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1)(j) of the Central Provident Fund Act 1953, 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) Regulations 2023 and come into operation on 1 July 2023.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. In the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (Rg 17) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 2(1) —

(a)

replace the definition of “approved remote consultation” with —

“ “approved remote consultation”, in relation to any type of medical treatment, means any treatment received by a patient by remote provision approved under section 11B of the Healthcare Services Act 2020 as an approved mode of service delivery for that type of medical treatment;”;

(b)

replace the definition of “out-patient scan” with —

“ “out-patient scan” means any scan (including any magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerised tomography (CT) scans, positron emission tomography (PET) scans, ultrasound imaging and mammograms) instructed by an approved medical practitioner and performed on an out‑patient for the purpose of providing —

(a)	diagnostic imaging to investigate any medical condition of the out‑patient; or
(b)	clinical information for any non‑qualifying medical treatment or specified out‑patient treatment received by the out‑patient,

but does not include the following:

(c)

any cancer scan or diagnostic test;

(d)

any scan for health screening purposes;

(e)

any scan performed at a specified emergency department of an approved medical institution, except —

(i)	a computerised tomography (CT) scan performed for traumatic brain injury at a specified emergency department of an approved medical institution; and
(ii)	any scan approved by the Minister charged with the responsibility for health for a clinical indication approved by that Minister and performed at a specified emergency department of an approved medical institution;”;

(c)

after the definition of “radiotherapy treatment”, insert —

“ “remote provision” has the meaning given by the Healthcare Services Act 2020;”; and

(d)

after the definition of “Singapore Gamma Knife Centre”, insert —

“ “specified emergency department” means any premises that provide emergency medicine services and are specified by the Minister charged with the responsibility for health for the purposes of this Part;”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 3(1)(b) and (3)(a)(i)(B), after “at home”, insert “, or by way of approved remote consultation,”.

Amendment of regulation 9A

4. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 9A(1) —

(a)

replace “both” with “more”; and

(b)

after sub-paragraph (a), insert —

“(aa)

medical treatment (other than any approved vaccination) received by way of approved remote consultation, on or after 1 July 2023, from an approved home palliative care provider;”.

Amendment of regulation 14

5. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 14(1), replace “in an approved CIT medical institution or by way of approved remote consultation” with “either in an approved CIT medical institution or by way of approved remote consultation as a patient of an approved CIT medical institution”.

Amendment of regulation 24

6. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 24(1) —

(a)	in sub-paragraph (f), replace “at an approved CIT medical institution or by way of approved remote consultation” with “either in an approved CIT medical institution or by way of approved remote consultation as a patient of an approved CIT medical institution”; and
(b)	in sub-paragraph (i), after “provided”, insert “at home, 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; S 389/2020; S 855/2020; S 899/2020; S 1089/2020; S 131/2021; S 157/2021; S 315/2021; S 3/2022; S 285/2022; S 716/2022; S 770/2022]

Made on 8 June 2023.

NG CHEE KHERN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[Plg&Pol/CPFPol/Legis/CPFSL/2023; AG/LEGIS/SL/36/2020/3 Vol. 5]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 78(2) of the Central Provident Fund Act 1953).

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