Central Provident Fund (MediSave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 08 Aug 1996

No. S 350

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1)(j) of the Central Provident Fund Act, the Minister for Labour, after consultation with the Central Provident Fund Board, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall, with the exception of regulation 2, come into operation on 8th August 1996.

(2) Regulation 2 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 27th November 1995.

2. Regulation 2(1) of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “eye treatment”, the following definition:

“ “gamma knife treatment” means the treatment of neurosurgical and neurological disorders by way of radiotherapeutic procedure as specified in the Schedule;”.

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the word “radiotherapy” in the first line of the definition of “medical treatment”, the word “, gamma knife treatment”.

[Rg 17.]

[G.N. Nos.]

[S 357/93]

[S 62/94]

[S 330/94]

[S 117/95]

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

“Senior Citizens Health Care Centres

4E.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, where a member or his dependant has received, on or after 1st April 1996, any approved treatment as a day-care patient in any Senior Citizens Health Care Centre maintained by the Home Nursing Foundation, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of such treatment, including the payment of attendance fees, shall not exceed $20 per day subject to a maximum of $1,500 per year and shall not exceed the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account.

(2) In this regulation, “approved treatment” means any form of treatment approved by the Minister for Health for the purposes of these Regulations.”; and

4. Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “and (4)” in paragraph (1) and substituting the words “, (4) and (5)”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (4), the following paragraphs:

“(5) Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, where a member or his dependant has received gamma knife treatment from an approved medical practitioner at the Singapore Gamma Knife Centre on or after 27th November 1995, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of such treatment shall not exceed $150 per day for hospital charges, and $7,500 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.”.

(6) In this regulation, “Singapore Gamma Knife Centre” means any premises which provides gamma knife treatment for the care of in-patients and which is approved by the Minister for Health for the purposes of these Regulations.”.

5. The Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph 5, the following paragraph:

“

Gamma knife treatment

With effect from 27th November 1995

$150 per day for hospital charges, and $7,500 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.

”.

Made this 6th day of August 1996.

MOSES LEE KIM POO

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Labour,
Singapore.

[ML S10/82 V12; AG/SL/19/95/1]

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

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