Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2015

No. S 625

Central Provident Fund Act

(CHAPTER 36)

Central Provident Fund
(Medisave Account Withdrawals)
(Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2015

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, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2015 and come into operation on 1 November 2015.

Amendment of regulation 5

2. Regulation 5(1) of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (Rg 17) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)	by inserting the word “or” at the end of paragraph (a)(ii)(B)(BB); and
(b)	by deleting sub‑paragraph (iii) of sub‑paragraph (a).

Amendment of regulation 21

3. Regulation 21(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting sub‑paragraph (d).

Deletion and substitution of regulation 23

4. Regulation 23 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Reimbursement by another person

23. Where —

(a)

a member has withdrawn moneys from the member’s medisave account under these Regulations to pay charges incurred for medical treatment or psychiatric treatment (including any specified out‑patient treatment), or approved treatment, received by the member or member’s dependant; and

(b)

another person, who is under an obligation (contractual or otherwise) to pay or reimburse the member for such charges incurred for the treatment referred to in paragraph (a), has made the payment or reimbursement,

an amount, computed in accordance with the following formula, becomes due and payable to the member’s medisave account by the member on the date such payment or reimbursement is made by that other person:

A + B – C,

where A

is the total amount of the payment or reimbursement made by that other person;

is the total amount withdrawn from the member’s medisave account referred to in paragraph (a); and

is the total sum of the charges incurred for the treatment referred to in paragraph (a).

”.

Amendment of First Schedule

5. Item 3 of the First Schedule to the principal Regulations is deleted and the following item substituted therefor:

“3.	Treatment of neoplasms by chemotherapy

With effect from 1 November 2015

$1,200 per month or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.”.

Savings and transitional

6.—(1) Despite regulation 2 of these Regulations, regulation 5(1)(a)(iii) of the principal Regulations as in force immediately before 1 November 2015 applies to any stereotactic radiotherapy treatment for cancer received by a member or the member’s dependant, who was admitted as an in‑patient in an approved hospital before that date, during that stay in the approved hospital.

(2) Despite regulation 5 of these Regulations and regulation 2(2) and (3) of the principal Regulations, item 3 of the First Schedule to the principal Regulations as in force immediately before 1 November 2015 applies to any treatment of neoplasms by chemotherapy received, on or after that date, as part of an approved treatment package under which the first treatment of neoplasms was received before that date.

[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; S 623/2013; S 427/2014; S 872/2014; S 177/2015]

Made on 28 October 2015.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MMS 10.1/82 V15; AG/LEGIS/SL/36/2015/1 Vol. 2]

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

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