Mental Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2023

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Mar 2023

No. S 162

Mental Capacity Act 2008

Mental Capacity
(Amendment) Regulations 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 46 of the Mental Capacity Act 2008, the Minister for Social and Family Development makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and come into operation on 1 April 2023.

New regulation 25A

2. In the Mental Capacity Regulations 2010 (G.N. No. S 105/2010), after regulation 25, insert —

“Rectification or updating on Public Guardian’s initiative

25A.—(1) For the purposes of section 33A(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, the prescribed Singapore public sector agencies are as follows:

(a)	the Ministry of Home Affairs;
(b)	the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office;
(c)	the Family Justice Courts constituted by the Family Justice Act 2014;
(d)	the Supreme Court constituted by the Constitution.

(2) For the purposes of section 33A(2) of the Act, the Public Guardian need not give written notice to the person whose particulars or document is to be rectified or updated by the Public Guardian if that person has died.

(3) A written objection to the Public Guardian under section 33A(3) of the Act must be sent to the Public Guardian’s postal address or Public Guardian’s email address.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 524/2014; S 531/2018; S 501/2019; S 870/2022]

Made on 27 March 2023.

AUBECK KAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Social and Family Development,
Singapore.

[MSF 132-20-814; AG/LEGIS/SL/177A/2020/3 Vol. 1]

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