No. S 88
Central Provident Fund Act
(Chapter 36)
Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
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, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 and shall come into operation on 17th February 2010.
Amendment of regulation 2
2.  Regulation 2 of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (Rg 17) is amended —
(a)by inserting, immediately after the definition of “last medical bill” in paragraph (1), the following definition:
“ “living donor organ transplant” has the same meaning as in the Human Organ Transplant Act (Cap. 131A);”;
(b)by deleting the definition of “organ procurement costs” in paragraph (1) and substituting the following definition:
“ “organ transplantation costs” means —
(a)any costs arising in relation or incidental to the removal of any organ from a non-living organ donor for organ transplant and includes the costs of —
(i)the donor’s extended stay, before his death, in a hospital as necessitated by the donation of his organ;
(ii)any surgical operation to remove the organ from the donor’s body;
(iii)any pre-harvesting laboratory test and investigation;
(iv)any counselling provided to the donor’s family in connection with the donation of his organ;
(v)the storage and transport of the organ; and
(vi)such other procedure as may be approved by the Minister for Health; or
(b)any costs so far as are reasonably or directly attributable to the removal of any specified organ from a living organ donor for organ transplant and includes the costs of —
(i)the donor’s stay in a hospital as necessitated by the donation of his specified organ until he is discharged;
(ii)any surgical operation to remove the specified organ from the donor’s body;
(iii)the storage and transport of the specified organ; and
(iv)such other procedure as may be approved by the Minister for Health,
but does not include —
(A)any costs arising in relation or incidental to complications suffered by the donor due to the donation of his specified organ after his discharge from the hospital under sub-paragraph (i);
(B)any pre-harvesting laboratory test and investigation; and
(C)any counselling provided to the donor’s family in connection with the donation of his specified organ;”; and
(c)by inserting, immediately after the definition of “Singapore Gamma Knife Centre” in paragraph (1), the following definition:
“ “specified organ” has the same meaning as in the Human Organ Transplant Act (Cap. 131A);”.
Deletion and substitution of regulation 21A
3.  Regulation 21A of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
Organ transplantation costs
21A.—(1)  Subject to paragraph (3), where a member or his dependant —
(a)is admitted to an approved hospital and receives any medical treatment as an in-patient from an approved medical practitioner therein in connection with an organ transplant; and
(b)has incurred any organ transplantation costs in connection with the organ transplant,
such organ transplantation costs may, if the circumstances so require —
(i)be considered as part of the charges incurred by the member or his dependant for the medical treatment so received; and
(ii)be met out of the amount that the member is entitled to withdraw under these Regulations for the payment of such medical treatment, subject to the limits prescribed in regulation 5 and such other terms and conditions as the Board may impose.
(2)  Subject to paragraph (3), where a member or his dependant —
(a)receives any day surgical treatment from an approved medical practitioner in an approved day surgery centre in connection with an organ transplant; and
(b)has incurred any organ transplantation costs in connection with the organ transplant,
such organ transplantation costs may, if the circumstances so require —
(i)be considered as part of the charges incurred by the member or his dependant for the day surgical treatment so received; and
(ii)be met out of the amount that the member is entitled to withdraw under these Regulations for the payment of such day surgical treatment, subject to the limits prescribed in regulation 21 and such other terms and conditions as the Board may impose.
(3)  Unless the Minister for Health otherwise directs —
(a)paragraph (1) shall apply only in the case where the member or his dependant is admitted to an approved hospital for medical treatment as an in-patient; and
(b)paragraph (2) shall apply only in the case where the member or his dependant receives day surgical treatment in an approved day surgery centre,
on or after —
(i)1st October 2007 in connection with an organ transplant other than a living donor organ transplant; or
(ii)17th February 2010 in connection with a living donor organ transplant.
(4)  For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), where the organ transplantation costs are incurred in connection with a living donor organ transplant of which the member or his dependent is the recipient of the specified organ, the limits prescribed in regulation 5 or 21 (as the case may be) shall, notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, apply separately in relation to —
(a)the medical treatment received by the member or his dependent; and
(b)the medical treatment received by the living organ donor.”.
[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]

Made this 11th day of February 2010.

LOH KHUM YEAN
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.
[MMS 10/82 V23; AG/LLRD/SL/36/2010/1 Vol. 1]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 78(2) of the Central Provident Fund Act).