Central Provident Fund (Amendment) Regulations 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 28 Feb 2022

No. S 120

Central Provident Fund Act 1953

Central Provident Fund
(Amendment) Regulations 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1) 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 (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and come into operation on 1 March 2022.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Central Provident Fund Regulations (Rg 15) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “section 15(2) or (3) of the Act” in paragraph (3) and substituting the words “section 15(2)(a), (b) or (c) or (3) or 15AA(1) of the Act or a former provision”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (3), the following paragraph:

“(4) In this regulation, “former provision” means section 15(2)(d), (e), (f) or (g) of the Act as in force before 1 March 2022.”.

Amendment of regulation 7

3. Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “section 15,” in paragraphs (1)(a) and (2)(a), “15AA, 15AB,”.

New regulation 14A

4. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 14, the following regulation:

“Significant conditions and specified significant conditions in section 15AA of Act

14A.—(1) The following physical or mental conditions are prescribed as significant conditions defined in section 15AA(9) of the Act:

(a)

being physically or mentally incapacitated —

(i)	from ever continuing in any employment; or
(ii)	in a manner approved by the Minister that causes disability of a description or to an extent specified by the Minister;

(b)

lacking capacity within the meaning of section 4 of the Mental Capacity Act 2008;

(c)

a medical condition leading to a severely impaired life expectancy;

(d)

a terminal illness or disease.

(2) The significant conditions prescribed in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c) are specified significant conditions defined in section 15AA(9) of the Act.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 695/2002; S 367/2003; S 780/2004; S 718/2007; S 820/2010; S 724/2011; S 540/2012; S 201/2013; S 565/2014; S 30/2015; S 233/2015; S 191/2016; S 722/2016; S 884/2019; S 854/2020; S 1018/2021]

Made on 27 February 2022.

AUBECK KAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[Plg&Pol/CPFPol/Legis/CPFSL/2022; AG/LEGIS/SL/36/2020/7 Vol. 1]

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

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