Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Jan 2024

No. S 59

Central Provident Fund Act 1953

Central Provident Fund
(Medisave Account Withdrawals)
(Amendment) Regulations 2024

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 2024 and come into operation on 1 February 2024.

Amendment of regulation 14

2. In the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (Rg 17), in regulation 14(1) —

(a)

in sub-paragraph (a)(ii), delete “and” at the end;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (b), after “subject to”, insert “sub‑paragraph (c) and”;

(c)

in sub-paragraph (b)(ii), replace the full‑stop at the end with “; and”; and

(d)

after sub‑paragraph (b), insert —

“(c)

subject to regulations 14C, 21C and 21D, in respect of any such treatment received (not as part of any approved treatment package) on or after 1 February 2024 from an approved CIT medical institution, if —

(i)	the patient is enrolled in the Healthier SG initiative, or any other health programme approved by the Minister charged with the responsibility for health for the purposes of this provision; and
(ii)	under the terms of the health programme published on the website of the Ministry of Health at https://www.moh.gov.sg, the patient is not liable to co-payment,

an amount not exceeding the lower of —

(iii)	the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account; or
(iv)	the charge imposed by the approved CIT medical institution for such treatment.”.

[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; S 466/2023; S 652/2023; S 773/2023]

Made on 23 January 2024.

NG CHEE KHERN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[Plg&Pol/CPFPol/Legis/CPFSL/2024; AG/LEGIS/SL/36/2020/3 Vol. 6]

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

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