7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (1AA) and unless otherwise provided in the Central Provident Fund (Retirement Sum Scheme) Regulations (Rg 16), the Central Provident Fund (Retirement Sum Topping-Up Scheme) Regulations (Rg 3), the Central Provident Fund (Revised Retirement Sum Scheme) Regulations (Rg 2) or the Central Provident Fund (New Retirement Sum Scheme) Regulations (Rg 31), where —(a) | any amount has been authorised, permitted or allowed to be paid out of the Fund to any person under section 15, 15AA, 15AB, 16B, 16C, 20, 25, 25A, 26A, 27 or 27B of the Act or section 26, 26C or 26D of the Act as in force before 1 April 2022; and [S 854/2020 wef 01/10/2020] [S 120/2022 wef 01/03/2022] [S 288/2022 wef 01/04/2022] [S 31/2025 wef 19/01/2025] | (b) | the amount has not been successfully paid to that person, or the instrument in respect of such payment has been returned to the Board or has expired, |
the Board is to restore the amount, or the value of the instrument, to the member’s account in the Fund or the general moneys of the Fund (as the case may be) as soon as practicable after the date the Board is notified of the unsuccessful payment of the amount or the instrument is returned to the Board or expires (as the case may be). |
[S 722/2016 wef 01/01/2017] [S 31/2025 wef 19/01/2025] (1AA) Where paragraph (1)(a) and (b) applies in relation to an amount authorised, permitted or allowed to be paid out of a member’s retirement account under section 15(2)(b), 20(1)(b) or (1A), 25(3) or (4A), 25A or 26A of the Act, the Board may, instead of restoring the amount, or the value of the instrument, to the member’s retirement account, pay that amount or value to —(a) | the member’s ordinary account, if any of the following applies:(i) | the member is not a specified applicable person; | (ii) | the amount is paid out from the member’s retirement account on or after the SAC Start Date; or |
| (b) | the member’s special account, in any other case, |
as soon as practicable after the date the Board is notified of the unsuccessful payment of the amount, or the instrument is returned to the Board or expires, as the case may be. |
[S 31/2025 wef 19/01/2025] |
(1AB) In paragraph (1AA) —“SAC Start Date” has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the Central Provident Fund (Closure of Special Account) Regulations 2025 (G.N. No. S 30/2025); |
“specified applicable person” means —(a) | a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore; or | (b) | a person prescribed in regulation 2(a) of the Central Provident Fund (Prescribed Applicable Person) Regulations 2024 (G.N. No. S 275/2024). |
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[S 31/2025 wef 19/01/2025] |
(1A) Where the amount, or the value of an instrument, is restored or paid to an account of the member in the Fund under paragraph (1) or (1AA), the Board may credit to that account (in any manner that the Board considers fit) any interest in respect of that amount or value in the following manner:(a) | where paragraph (1) applies — the whole or any part, as the Board may determine, of any interest that would have been payable on the amount or value so restored if that amount or value had not been debited from that account; | (b) | where paragraph (1AA)(a) applies — the whole or any part, as the Board may determine, of any interest payable on the amount or value so paid as if that amount or value were in the member’s ordinary account for the period starting on the date of withdrawal from the member’s retirement account and ending on the date immediately before the date that amount or value is paid to the member’s ordinary account; or | (c) | where paragraph (1AA)(b) applies or if (despite sub-paragraph (b)) the Board considers it reasonable to do so in the circumstances — the whole or any part, as the Board may determine, of any interest that would have been payable on the amount or value so paid if that amount or value had not been debited from the member’s retirement account. |
[S 31/2025 wef 19/01/2025] |
(1B) The Board may, before restoring the amount or value of an instrument to the member’s account or the general moneys of the Fund (as the case may be) under paragraph (1), make further reasonable attempts to pay the amount authorised to be paid out of the Fund as mentioned in paragraph (1)(a). [S 722/2016 wef 01/01/2017] |
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), where on or before 1st January 2003 —(a) | any amount has been authorised to be paid out of the Fund to any person entitled thereto under section 15, 15AA, 15AB, 20, 26 or 27 of the Act; [S 120/2022 wef 01/03/2022] | (b) | the amount has not been successfully paid to that person or the instrument in respect of such payment has been returned to the Board or has expired; and [S 540/2012 wef 01/11/2012] [S 722/2016 wef 01/01/2017] | (c) | the amount or the value of the instrument has been subsequently transferred to the Reserve Account of the Fund, |
the Board shall, if satisfied that any person is entitled to the whole or part of the amount, restore to the member’s account the amount as if such amount had been restored — |
(i) | from the date of the unsuccessful payment of the amount to the person entitled to the payment; or [S 540/2012 wef 01/11/2012] | (ii) | where the instrument has been returned to the Board or has expired, from the date of return of the instrument or date of expiry of the instrument, whichever is the earlier, [S 722/2016 wef 01/01/2017] |
and the Board shall credit the whole or such part, as the Board may determine, of the interest that would have been payable on the amount restored if that amount had not been debited from the member’s account, in such manner as the Board considers fit. |
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(2AA) Paragraph (2AB) applies where —(a) | any amount has been authorised before, on or after 1 September 2014 to be paid from any member’s living expenses account to that member under section 27 of the Act; and | (b) | that amount has not been successfully paid to that member or the instrument in respect of such payment has been returned to the Board or has expired. [S 565/2014 wef 01/09/2014] [S 722/2016 wef 01/01/2017] |
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(2AB) Where this paragraph applies by virtue of paragraph (2AA), instead of complying with paragraph (1) or (2) (if applicable), the Board may credit to the member’s ordinary account —(a) | the amount of the unsuccessful payment or value of the instrument referred to in paragraph (2AA)(b); and | (b) | the whole or such part, as the Board may determine, of any interest —(i) | payable on the amount of the unsuccessful payment referred to in paragraph (2AA)(b), where that amount was retained in the living expenses account; or | (ii) | that would have been payable on the amount of the unsuccessful payment or value of the instrument referred to in paragraph (2AA)(b), as if that amount or value had not been deducted from the living expenses account, where that amount was deducted from the living expenses account. [S 565/2014 wef 01/09/2014] |
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(2A) Where —(a) | any amount has been authorised to be paid out of the Fund to any person under section 74, 75, 75A, 75B, 75C or 75D of the Act (as in force before 1 January 2020) or section 71 of the Act; and [S 191/2016 wef 01/05/2016] [S 884/2019 wef 01/01/2020] | (b) | the amount has not been successfully paid to that person or the instrument in respect of such payment has been returned to the Board or has expired, [S 722/2016 wef 01/01/2017] |
the Board shall credit the amount, or the value of the instrument, to the general moneys of the Fund as soon as practicable after the date the Board is notified of the unsuccessful payment of the amount or the instrument is returned to the Board or expires, as the case may be. |
[S 540/2012 wef 01/11/2012] [S 722/2016 wef 01/01/2017] |
(2B) Where any amount referred to in paragraph (2A) has been credited to the general moneys of the Fund under that paragraph, the Board may authorise the payment of that amount from the general moneys of the Fund to any person who satisfies the Board that he is entitled under the Act to the whole or part of that amount. [S 540/2012 wef 01/11/2012] |
(3) [Deleted by S 565/2014 wef 01/09/2014] |
(4) For the purposes of this regulation —(a) | any amount paid out of the Fund includes an amount paid out by the inter-bank GIRO or telegraphic transfer; and | (b) | where any amount is or was paid out of the Fund in any foreign currency, the amount or the value of the instrument restored to the member’s account or to the general moneys of the Fund, as the case may be, may be more or less than the amount paid out of the Fund. [S 820/2010 wef 01/01/2011] |
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