Mental Capacity (Registration of Professional Deputies) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Mar 2023

No. S 164

Mental Capacity Act 2008

Mental Capacity
(Registration of Professional Deputies)
(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.—(1) These Regulations are the Mental Capacity (Registration of Professional Deputies) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and, except for regulation 3, come into operation on 1 April 2023.

(2) Regulation 3 is deemed to have come into operation on 31 December 2021.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. In the Mental Capacity (Registration of Professional Deputies) Regulations 2018 (G.N. No. S 529/2018), in regulation 2, in the definition of “eligible professional”, in paragraph (c), replace “Singapore Accountancy Commission Act 2013” with “Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004”.

Miscellaneous amendments

3. In the Mental Capacity (Registration of Professional Deputies) Regulations 2018 —

(a)

in regulation 2, in the definition of “eligible professional”, in paragraph (a), replace “(Cap. 161)” with “1966”;

(b)

in regulation 2, in the definition of “eligible professional”, in paragraph (b), replace “(Cap. 2)” with “2004”;

(c)

in regulation 2, in the definition of “eligible professional”, in paragraph (c), replace “(Cap. 294B)” with “2013”;

(d)

in regulation 2, in the definition of “eligible professional”, in paragraph (d), replace “(Cap. 174)” with “1997”;

(e)

in regulation 2, in the definition of “eligible professional”, in paragraph (e), replace “(Cap. 6B)” with “2011”;

(f)

in regulation 2, in the definition of “eligible professional”, in paragraph (f), replace “(Cap. 209)” with “1999”;

(g)

in regulation 2, in the definition of “specified offence”, replace paragraphs (b) and (c) with —

“(b)	any offence specified in Chapter 8, 14 or 16 of the Penal Code 1871;
(c)	any offence specified in Part 3 of the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act 1906, or in the Public Order Act 2009.”; and

(h)

in regulation 5, in paragraph (a), replace “(Cap. 336)” with “2005”.

Made on 27 March 2023.

AUBECK KAM

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

[MSF 132-20-814; AG/LEGIS/SL/177A/2020/5 Vol. 1]

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