Central Provident Fund (Private Medical Insurance Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

No. S 631

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Private Medical Insurance Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1)(k) 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 (Private Medical Insurance Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2005.

Amendment of regulation 4

2. Regulation 4(1) of the Central Provident Fund (Private Medical Insurance Scheme) Regulations 2005 (G.N. No. S 428/2005) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “upon the application of a member,”, the words “or upon the transfer of liabilities relating to the insurance cover of a member or his dependant under the Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme — Transfer of MediShield Plus Liabilities) Regulations 2005 (G.N. No. S 629/2005),”.

Amendment of regulation 5

3. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(2) The Board shall, pursuant to a member’s application under regulation 4 (1)(b) or upon a transfer of liabilities relating to the insurance cover of a member or his dependant under the Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme — Transfer of MediShield Plus Liabilities) Regulations 2005 (G.N. S 629/2005), forward to the insurer such part of the amount withdrawn from the member’s medisave account that does not pertain to the premiums payable for his or his dependant’s MediShield Component, as the case may be.”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 7

4. Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Period of insurance cover

7.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations but subject to paragraph (2), a person shall, upon the payment of the premium payable for his private medical insurance plan or integrated medical insurance plan, be insured under such plan for a period of 12 months from the date the premium was due.

(2) Where a person is insured under an integrated medical insurance plan pursuant to regulation 11(1) of the Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) Regulations 2005 (G.N. No. S 427/2005), his initial period of insurance cover under the integrated medical insurance plan shall be a period of 12 months less the period calculated from the most recent date before 1st October 2005 of the renewal of his insurance cover under the Scheme in Division 3 of Part II of those Regulations to 1st October 2005.”.

Made this 27th day of September 2005.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MMS 7/68 V49; AG/LEG/SL/36/2005/4 Vol. 1]

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

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