Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2008

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 30 Dec 2008

No. S 691

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Medishield Scheme) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2008

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 57 of the Central Provident Fund Act, Mr Gan Kim Yong, Senior Minister of State, charged with the responsibility of the Minister for Manpower, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2008 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st July 2008.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) Regulations (Rg 20, 2008 Ed.) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the definitions of “pro-rating factor”, “subsidised” and “unsubsidised”.

Amendment of regulation 10

3. Regulation 10 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “the total of the charges incurred for such medical treatment pro-rated against the applicable pro-rating factor” in paragraphs (10)(a), (12)(a) and (14)(a) and substituting in each case the words “the applicable charges”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (14), the following paragraph:

“(15) In this regulation, “applicable charges” —

(a)

in relation to paragraph (10), refers to the total of the charges a citizen of Singapore who was granted the maximum Government subsidy available for the same insured out-patient medical treatment would have incurred, after the grant of the subsidy;

(b)

in relation to paragraph (12), refers to the total of the charges a citizen of Singapore who was granted the maximum Government subsidy available for the same treatment of neoplasms by chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment for cancer would have incurred, after the grant of the subsidy; or

(c)

in relation to paragraph (14), refers to —

(i)

in the case of an insured person who was discharged from a Class “C” ward in an approved restructured hospital, the total of the charges a citizen of Singapore discharged from a Class “C” ward in an approved restructured hospital who was granted the maximum Government subsidy available for the same medical treatment would have incurred, after the grant of the subsidy; or

(ii)

in the case of an insured person who was discharged from a class of ward other than a Class “C” ward in an approved restructured hospital, the total of the charges a citizen of Singapore discharged from a Class “B2” ward in an approved restructured hospital who was granted the maximum Government subsidy available for the same medical treatment would have incurred, after the grant of the subsidy.”.

Deletion of Sixth Schedule

4. The Sixth Schedule to the principal Regulations is deleted.

[G.N. No. S 447/2008]

Made this 30th day of December 2008.

LEO YIP

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MMS 10.1/82 V14; AG/LEG/SL/36/2005/3 Vol. 3]

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

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