Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2013

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Sep 2013

No. S 623

Central Provident Fund Act

(CHAPTER 36)

Central Provident Fund
(Medisave Account Withdrawals)
(Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2013

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1)(j) of the Central Provident Fund Act, Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, Senior Minister of State, charged with the responsibility of 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. 3) Regulations 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2013.

Amendment of regulation 18

2. Regulation 18 of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (Rg 17) is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(1) Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations but subject to this regulation, where a female member or spouse of a male member has received medical treatment for conception as part of a treatment cycle from an approved medical practitioner as an in‑patient or out‑patient from an approved hospital or an approved clinic designated by the Minister for Health, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member to pay for such treatment shall not exceed —

(a)

where the treatment cycle commenced before 1st August 2004, the lower of the following:

(i)	a sum of $4,000 per treatment cycle; or
(ii)	the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account;

(b)

where the treatment cycle commenced on or after 1st August 2004 and before 1st October 2013 —

(i)

for the first withdrawal for the treatment cycle received by a particular patient, the lower of the following:

(A)	a sum of $6,000; or
(B)	the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account;

(ii)

for the second withdrawal for the treatment cycle received by the same patient, the lower of the following:

(A)	a sum of $5,000; or
(B)	the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account; or

(iii)

for the third withdrawal for the treatment cycle received by the same patient, the lower of the following:

(A)	a sum of $4,000; or
(B)	the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account; or

(c)

where the treatment cycle commenced on or after 1st October 2013 —

(i)

for the first withdrawal for the treatment cycle received by a particular patient, the lower of the following:

(A)	a sum of $6,000; or
(B)	the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account;

(ii)

for the second withdrawal for the treatment cycle received by the same patient, the lower of the following:

(A)	a sum of $5,000; or
(B)	the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account; or

(iii)

for the third or subsequent withdrawal for the treatment cycle received by the same patient, the lower of the following:

(A)	a sum of $4,000; or
(B)	the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account.

(1A) The total amount withdrawn under paragraph (1) for all medical treatments for conception received by the same patient shall not exceed $15,000.”;

(b)

by deleting the words “1st August 2004” in paragraph (2) and substituting the words “1st October 2013”;

(c)

by deleting the words “paragraph (1)(b)” in paragraph (2) and substituting the words “paragraph (1)(c)”;

(d)

by deleting paragraph (4); and

(e)

by deleting paragraph (6) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(6) Where a cycle of medical treatment for conception has been discontinued and the sum withdrawn from the member’s medisave account for the treatment has been repaid to the account in full, the repaid withdrawal for the discontinued cycle of medical treatment for conception shall be disregarded in determining whether a subsequent withdrawal for a treatment cycle for conception is a first, second, third or subsequent withdrawal for the purposes of paragraph (1).”.

[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; S 548/2010; S 367/2011; S 725/2011; S 107/2013; S 482/2013]

Made this 27th day of September 2013.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MMS 10.1/82 V 14; AG/LLRD/SL/36/2010/1 Vol. 2]

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

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