Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 29 Dec 2011

No. S 725

Central Provident Fund Act

(CHAPTER 36)

Central Provident Fund
(Medisave Account Withdrawals)
(Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2011

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. 2) Regulations 2011 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2012.

Amendment of regulation 14A

2. Regulation 14A of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations (Rg 17) is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) Subject to regulation 14C, where, on or after 1st November 2009, a member or his dependant has received any approved vaccination from an approved medical practitioner as an out‑patient in an approved clinic, approved hospital, approved community hospital or approved CIT medical institution, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment for all such vaccinations received in any calendar year shall not exceed the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account.”.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 14C

3. Regulation 14C of the Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:

“Additional limit on withdrawal under regulations 14, 14A and 14B

14C. The total amount which a member is entitled to withdraw under regulations 14, 14A and 14B for the payment for all approved chronic illness treatments, approved vaccinations and approved screenings received in any calendar year shall not exceed —

(a)	$300 for the years 2006 to 2011; and
(b)	$400 for the year 2012 and any subsequent year.”.

[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]

Made this 27th day of December 2011.

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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