Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2010

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 01 Oct 2010

No. S 548

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations 2010

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. 4) Regulations 2010 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2010.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2(1) of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (Rg 17) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the word “Schedule” in the definitions of “approved medical treatment” and “radiotherapy treatment” and substituting in each case the words “First Schedule”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. Regulation 3(3) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “medical treatment” in sub-paragraph (c) and substituting the words “medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved treatment”.

Amendment of regulation 4

4. Regulation 4(4) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “medical treatment” and substituting the words “medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved treatment”.

Amendment of regulation 12

5. Regulation 12 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “and 21” and substituting the words “, 13 and 21”.

Amendment of regulation 13

6. Regulation 13 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “Schedule” in paragraphs (2), (3) and (6) and substituting in each case the words “First Schedule”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (7), the following paragraph:

“(8) Notwithstanding any restrictions on the withdrawal for the payment of charges incurred in respect of any medical treatment afforded to a member or his dependant as an out-patient prescribed in these Regulations, the Minister for Health or such other person as he may appoint may, in a particular case, approve the withdrawal of the whole or part of the amount standing to the credit of the member in his medisave account for the payment of the whole or part of the charges incurred in respect of any treatment, except any treatment referred to in regulation 12 and in the Second Schedule, received by the member or his dependant as an out-patient at any approved medical institution, subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health, or such person as he may appoint, may impose.”.

Renaming of Schedule and new Second Schedule

7. The principal Regulations are amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “THE SCHEDULE” in the heading and substituting the words “FIRST SCHEDULE”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the First Schedule, the following Schedule:

“SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 13(8)

Excluded Treatments

1. Experimental treatments, including treatments given as part of a clinical trial.

2. Traditional or alternative medicine (e.g. Traditional Chinese Medicines, Aryuvedic treatments).

3. Optional items such as television, telephone, special requested meals, medical reports and other items which are not necessary for the treatment of any illness, condition or any injury or disability.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 224/2007; S 527/2007; S 731/2007; S 149/2008; S 456/2008; S 682/2008; S 86/2009; S 239/2009; S 523/2009; S 659/2009; S 88/2010; S 118/2010; S 289/2010]

Made this 27th day of September 2010.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MMS 10/82 V23; AG/LLRD/SL/36/2010/1 Vol. 1]

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

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