Silver Support Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 14 Dec 2022

No. S 957

Silver Support Scheme Act 2015

Silver Support Scheme
(Amendment) Regulations 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 20(1) of the Silver Support Scheme Act 2015, the Minister for Manpower makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Silver Support Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and come into operation on 14 December 2022.

Replacement of regulation 8

2. In the Silver Support Scheme Regulations 2016 (G.N. No. S 350/2016), replace regulation 8 with —

“Method of disbursing cash grants

8.—(1) The Board may disburse a cash grant to an eligible individual —

(a)	by paying the amount of the cash grant into the individual’s bank account;
(b)	by paying the amount of the cash grant into the individual’s electronic wallet maintained by the Government known as GovCash;
(c)	subject to any directions of the Commissioner given to the Board under the Act — by any other electronic means; or
(d)	by issuing a cheque to the individual for the amount of the cash grant, and sending the cheque to the individual’s correspondence address determined in accordance with rule 24 of the Central Provident Fund Rules (R 3).

(2) A cash grant which an eligible individual is eligible to receive will be credited into the individual’s account in the Fund in accordance with section 14(1) or (1A) (as the case may be) of the Central Provident Fund Act 1953 —

(a)

if —

(i)	the individual fails to withdraw the cash grant disbursed under paragraph (1)(b) before the individual dies; or
(ii)	the individual fails to encash a cheque issued to the individual under paragraph (1)(d) before the cheque expires; and

(b)

if the Commissioner so directs.

(3) Despite paragraphs (1) and (2) —

(a)	where an eligible individual is a prisoner as defined in section 2 of the Prisons Act 1933, a cash grant which the individual is eligible to receive may be credited to the Inmate Property Account maintained for the individual by the Commissioner of Prisons, at the request of the prisoner;
(b)	where an eligible individual resides in a nursing home licensed under the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Act 1980, a cash grant which the individual is eligible to receive may be credited to the bank account of the nursing home maintained for the individual, at the request of the person determined in accordance with paragraph (4); or
(c)	where a trust account has been set up with the Special Needs Trust Company Limited for an eligible individual, a cash grant which the individual is eligible to receive may be credited to the trust account of the individual, at the request of the person determined in accordance with paragraph (4).

(4) If the eligible individual mentioned in paragraph (3)(b) or (c) —

(a)

lacks capacity within the meaning of section 4 of the Mental Capacity Act 2008 — the request must be made by —

(i)	a deputy appointed or deemed to be appointed for the individual by the court under that Act with power in relation to the individual for the purposes of these Regulations; or
(ii)	a donee under a lasting power of attorney registered under that Act with power in relation to the individual for the purposes of these Regulations; or

(b)

has capacity — the request must be made by the eligible individual.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 679/2017; S 967/2020; S 733/2021]

Made on 7 December 2022.

NG CHEE KHERN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[HQ/PlnPol/CPFPol/SS/P&C/2022; AG/LEGIS/SL/294C/2020/1 Vol. 2]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 20(4) of the Silver Support Scheme Act 2015).

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