Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes (Medifund Committees) Order 2012

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 15 Oct 2012

No. S 514

Medical and Elderly Care
Endowment Schemes Act

(CHAPTER 173A)

Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes
(Medifund Committees)
Order 2012

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes Act, the Minister for Health hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes (Medifund Committees) Order 2012 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st April 2009.

Medifund committees

2.—(1) The Minister hereby appoints the Medifund committees named in the first column of the Schedule for the purposes of Part II of the Act.

(2) A Medifund committee named in the first column of the Schedule may —

(a)	consider and approve applications under section 15 of the Act from all classes of eligible patients in one or more approved institutions designated in the second column of the Schedule corresponding to the Medifund committee; and
(b)	exercise the powers and perform the duties under Part II of the Act in relation to such approved institutions and classes of eligible patients.

(3) The members, including the Chairperson, of a Medifund committee named in the first column of the Schedule shall hold office for such term as is specified in the fifth column of the Schedule corresponding to the Medifund committee.

Made this 5th day of October 2012.

TAN CHING YEE

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[MH (CF) 24:10/11 Vol. 13, MH (CF) 24:10/13 Vol. 7; AG/LLRD/SL/173A/2010/2 Vol. 1]

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