Authorisation of withdrawal from future contributions
22.—(1) Where a member or his dependant has received —
(a)
any medical or psychiatric treatment as an in-patient in a Class C or B2 ward of an approved hospital, or in a ward of an approved community hospital, an approved convalescent hospital, an approved in-patient hospice or an approved IPC provider which is equivalent to a Class C or B2 ward of an approved hospital and in respect of which the Government makes an annual grant in aid of recurrent expenditure incurred or to be incurred in operating or maintaining the ward;
(b)
any day surgical treatment at subsidised rates at an approved day surgery centre; or
(c)
any radiosurgery treatment at subsidised rates at an approved medical institution,
and the amount standing to the credit of the member in his medisave account is insufficient to pay for the charges incurred in respect of the treatment referred to in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c), the Board may, with the approval of the Minister for Health and subject to such terms and conditions as the Board may impose, authorise the member to withdraw his future contributions to his medisave account to pay the outstanding balance.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to —
(a)
any surgical treatment to reverse any treatment for sexual sterilization;
(b)
any medical treatment for conception; or
(c)
any approved vaccination received in a ward of an approved convalescent hospital, approved in-patient hospice or approved IPC provider which is equivalent to a Class C or B2 ward of an approved hospital.