Voluntary Sterilization (Amendment) Regulations 2023

No. S 401

Voluntary Sterilisation Act 1974

Voluntary Sterilization
(Amendment) Regulations 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of the Voluntary Sterilisation Act 1974, the Minister for Health makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations are the Voluntary Sterilization (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and, except for regulations 2 and 6, come into operation on 26 June 2023.

(2) Regulations 2 and 6 are deemed to have come into operation on 31 December 2021.

Amendment of regulation 1

2. In the Voluntary Sterilization Regulations 2012 (G.N. No. S 588/2012) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 1, replace “Sterilization” with “Sterilisation”.

New regulation 1A

3. In the principal Regulations, after regulation 1, insert —

“Definition

1A. In these Regulations, “specified website” means the Healthcare Application and Licensing Portal of the Ministry of Health at https://halp.moh.gov.sg.”.

Amendment of regulation 3

4. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 3 —

(a)	in paragraphs (1)(a) and (2), replace “Director of Medical Services” with “Director‑General of Health”;
(b)	in paragraph (1)(a), replace “in the electronic filing system of the Ministry of Health at https://elis.moh.gov.sg” with “at the specified website”; and
(c)	in paragraph (1)(c) and (d), replace “https://elis.moh.gov.sg” with “the specified website”.

Amendment of regulation 6

5. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 6(1)(a), replace “Director of Medical Services” with “Director‑General of Health”.

Miscellaneous amendments

6. In the principal Regulations —

(a)

in the following provisions, replace “sterilization” wherever it appears with “sterilisation”:

Regulation 3(1), (3) and (4)(f)

Regulation 4

Regulation 5

Regulation 6(1), (2) and (3)(a);

(b)

in the following provisions, in the regulation heading, replace “sterilization” with “sterilisation”:

Regulation 4

Regulation 5

Regulation 6;

(c)

in regulation 5, replace “(Cap. 174)” with “1997”;

(d)

in regulation 6(1)(e), replace “(Cap. 68)” with “2010”; and

(e)

in regulation 6(1)(f), replace “(Cap. 63A)” with “2010”.

[G.N. Nos. S 452/2013; S 665/2014]

Made on 19 June 2023.

CHAN YENG KIT

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[MH 78:44/1; AG/LEGIS/SL/347/2020/1 Vol. 1]

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