Mental Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2018

No. S 531

Mental Capacity Act

(CHAPTER 177A)

Mental Capacity
(Amendment) Regulations 2018

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 46 of the Mental Capacity Act, the Minister for Social and Family Development makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Regulations 2018 and come into operation on 1 September 2018.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Mental Capacity Regulations 2010 (G.N. No. S 105/2010) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the definition of “care facility” and substituting the following definition:

“ “care facility” means —

(a)	any day centre or home for the disabled or the aged; or
(b)	any welfare, nursing, rehabilitation or convalescent home;”.

Amendment of regulation 5

3. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “section 12(1)(b)” and substituting the words “paragraph (a) of the definition of “professional donee” in section 2(1)”.

Amendment of regulation 25

4. Regulation 25 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (1)(a);

(b)

by deleting the comma at the end of sub‑paragraph (b) of paragraph (1) and substituting the word “; and”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub‑paragraph:

“(c)	the register of professional deputies,”;

(c)

by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (2)(a); and

(d)

by deleting the full‑stop at the end of sub‑paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) and substituting the word “; and”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub‑paragraph:

“(c)	such information, as the Public Guardian considers appropriate, on professional deputies.”.

[G.N. No. S 524/2014]

Made on 31 August 2018.

CHEW HOCK YONG

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

[MSF 076-083-01G-1; AG/LEGIS/SL/177A/2015/4 Vol. 1]

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