Central Provident Fund (Division of Fund-Related Assets in Matrimonial Proceedings) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 28 Feb 2022

No. S 123

Central Provident Fund Act 1953

Central Provident Fund
(Division of Fund-Related Assets in
Matrimonial Proceedings)
(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 (Division of Fund-Related Assets in Matrimonial Proceedings) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and come into operation on 1 March 2022.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Central Provident Fund (Division of Fund‑Related Assets in Matrimonial Proceedings) Regulations (Rg 35) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the words “section 15(9), (9A), (10), (10A), (11D), (11E) or (11EB),” in the definition of “specified charge or undertaking” and substituting the words “section 15AB(1), (2), (3), (4), (10), (11) or (13) of the Act or a former provision, or section”.

New regulation 2A

3. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 2, the following regulation:

“Former provisions

2A. In a regulation specified in the first column of the Schedule, a reference to a former provision means any provision of the Act specified in the second column of the Schedule opposite that regulation.”.

Amendment of regulation 3

4. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “section 15(2) or 27 of the Act” in paragraph (1)(c) and (d) and substituting in each case the words “section 15(2)(a), (b) or (c), 15AA(1) or 27 of the Act or a former provision (as the case may be)”;

(b)

by deleting the words “section 15(8)(d), (e) or (f) of the Act applies to the spouse” in paragraph (1)(d)(i) and substituting the words “section 15AA(3)(a) of the Act applies to the spouse because the spouse is suffering from a terminal illness or disease, or section 15AA(3)(b) or (c) of the Act or a former provision applies to the spouse (as the case may be)”; and

(c)

by deleting sub‑paragraph (AA) of paragraph (1)(d)(ii)(A) and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:

“(AA)

where section 15AA(5) of the Act or section 15(2A), (7B) or (8A) of the Act as in force before 1 March 2022 applies to the spouse, the amount specified by the Minister under section 15AA(5)(a) of the Act or section 15(2A)(a), (7B)(a) or (8A)(a) of the Act as in force before 1 March 2022, as the case may be; or”.

New Schedule

5. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 7, the following Schedule:

“THE SCHEDULE

Regulation 2A

Former provisions

First column

Second column

Regulation containing
reference to a
former provision

Former provisions

1.	Regulation 2 (definition of “specified charge or undertaking”)

Section 15(9), (9A), (10), (10A), (11D), (11E) or (11EB) of the Act as in force before 1 March 2022

2.	Regulation 3(1)(c) and (d)

Section 15(2)(d), (e), (f) or (g) of the Act as in force before 1 March 2022

3.	Regulation 3(1)(d)(i)

Section 15(8)(d), (e) or (f) of the Act as in force before 1 March 2022

”.

[G.N. Nos. S 88/2009; S 710/2012; S 234/2015; S 787/2015; S 658/2016; S 600/2018; S 225/2021; S 558/2021]

Made on 27 February 2022.

AUBECK KAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[Plg&Pol/CPFPol/Legis/CPFSL/2022; AG/LEGIS/SL/36/2020/19 Vol. 1]

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

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