Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 May 2007

No. S 224

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007

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 No. 2) Regulations 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st June 2007.

Amendment of regulation 3

2. Regulation 3 of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (Rg 17, 2007 Ed.) is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(1) Subject to the Act and these Regulations, where a member or his dependant has received any medical, psychiatric or approved treatment —

(a)	from an approved medical practitioner in any approved medical institution; or
(b)	in any other centre, clinic, hospital or premises approved by the Minister for Health under paragraph (1A),

the Board may, on an application by the member within the period of 12 months commencing immediately after the relevant date or within such further period as may be specified by the Board, authorise the whole or part of the amount standing to the member’s credit in his medisave account to be withdrawn and used for the payment of the medical, psychiatric or approved treatment received by the member or his dependant, subject to the direction of the Minister for Health under paragraph (1A)(b) and such other terms and conditions as the Board may impose.

(1A) Where a member or his dependant has received any treatment on or after 1st June 2007 in any centre, clinic, hospital or other premises that is not an approved medical institution, the Minister for Health may, on the application of the member and subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks fit to impose —

(a)	approve such centre, clinic, hospital or other premises for the purpose of the member’s application to the Board under paragraph (1) for the withdrawal of moneys from his medisave account to pay for the treatment he or his dependent received; and
(b)	direct that, for the purposes of these Regulations, the withdrawal of moneys be made as if such centre, clinic, hospital or other premises were a type of approved medical institution as defined in regulation 2 as the Minister for Health may specify.”.

Amendment of regulation 4

3. Regulation 4 of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (5), the following paragraph:

“(6) Notwithstanding the limits on the withdrawal of moneys from medisave accounts prescribed in these Regulations, the Minister for Health may, in a particular case and in the interest of the member, approve the withdrawal of the whole or part of the amount standing to the credit of the member in the medisave account in excess of the prescribed limits for the payment of the charges incurred in respect of any medical, psychiatric or approved treatment received by the member, subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health may impose.”.

Made this 29th day of May 2007.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MMS 10/82 V22; AG/LEG/SL/36/2005/18 Vol. 1]

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

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