Benefits of self-employed eligible member under Scheme
6.—(1)  Subject to paragraph (1A), when a self-employed eligible member is entitled to receive any benefit, the Board shall —
(a)if the relevant year is 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012, credit, to his medisave account, a relevant contribution of an amount equal to the value of the benefit; or
(b)if the relevant year is 2013 or any subsequent year —
(i)make a cash payment to him of an amount (rounded up to the nearest dollar) equivalent to one-tenth of the value of all benefits which he is then entitled to receive; and
(ii)credit a relevant contribution, of an amount equivalent to the difference between the value of all benefits which he is then entitled to receive and the value of the cash payment under sub-paragraph (i), to his medisave account.
(1A)  Where the Board has attempted to make a cash payment to a self-employed eligible member under paragraph (1)(b)(i) by issuing a cheque to the member, the Board has notified the member of the issue of the cheque, and the member fails to encash the cheque before the cheque expires —
(a)the Board may, in lieu of making the cash payment, credit an additional relevant contribution, of an amount equivalent to the value of the cash payment, to such of the member’s ordinary account, special account and medisave account as the Minister may direct; and
(b)if the Board credits the additional relevant contribution in accordance with sub-paragraph (a), the member shall cease to be entitled under paragraph (1)(b)(i) to the cash payment.
(2)  The total value of all benefits which a self-employed eligible member is entitled to receive in any relevant year shall be as follows:
(a)where he is a category 1 self-employed eligible member, the total value of all benefits which he is entitled to receive is as set out in —
(i)the table under paragraph 1 of the Third Schedule, if the relevant year is 2007, 2008 or 2009;
(ii)the table under paragraph 2 of the Third Schedule, if the relevant year is 2010, 2011 or 2012; or
(iii)the table under paragraph 3 of the Third Schedule, if the relevant year is 2013 or any subsequent year;
(b)where he is a category 2 self-employed eligible member, the total value of all benefits which he is entitled to receive is as set out in —
(i)the table under paragraph 1 of the Fourth Schedule, if the relevant year is 2007, 2008 or 2009;
(ii)the table under paragraph 2 of the Fourth Schedule, if the relevant year is 2010, 2011 or 2012; or
(iii)the table under paragraph 2A of the Fourth Schedule, if the relevant year is 2013 or any subsequent year; or
(c)where he is a category 3 self-employed eligible member, the total value of all benefits which he is entitled to receive is as set out in —
(i)the table under paragraph 3 of the Fourth Schedule, if the relevant year is 2012; or
(ii)the table under paragraph 4 of the Fourth Schedule, if the relevant year is 2013 or any subsequent year.
(3)  Subject to paragraph (4), a self-employed eligible member shall receive the benefits to which he is entitled in any relevant year as soon as practicable after he has satisfied, for the relevant year, the requirement referred to in regulation 4(1)(f) and, where applicable, the requirement referred to in regulation 4(1)(g).
(4)  A self-employed eligible member may receive a provisional credit of part of the benefits to which he is entitled in any relevant year from 2007 to 2011 before the end of the relevant year, and the remainder of the benefits to which he is entitled in the relevant year as soon as practicable after he has satisfied, for the relevant year, the requirement referred to in regulation 4(1)(f) and, where applicable, the requirement referred to in regulation 4(1)(g), if he —
(a)is a Singapore citizen, or becomes a Singapore citizen on or before —
(i)1st July in the relevant year, if the relevant year is 2007, 2008 or 2009; or
(ii)30th June in the relevant year, if the relevant year is 2010 or 2011;
(b)has worked as a self-employed person for a period of at least 3 months in the first 6 months of the relevant year; and
(c)has, for the purposes of receiving the provisional credit, declared to the Board, in such form and manner as the Board may require, his income in the first 6 months of the relevant year, if the relevant year is 2010 or 2011.
(5)  The value of the benefits which a self-employed eligible member is entitled to receive provisionally in any relevant year from 2007 to 2011 shall be as set out in —
(a)the table under paragraph 1 of the Fifth Schedule, if the relevant year is 2007, 2008 or 2009; or
(b)the table under paragraph 2 of the Fifth Schedule, if the relevant year is 2010 or 2011.
(6)  Notwithstanding paragraph (2), where the value of the benefits which a self-employed eligible member has received provisionally in any relevant year (being 2010 or 2011) exceeds the total value of all benefits which he is entitled to receive in that relevant year, the Board shall not be required to recover, on behalf of the Government, the excess benefits from the member.
(7)  Notwithstanding paragraphs (1), (1A), (2), (4) and (5), where a self-employed eligible member is entitled in any relevant year to receive any benefit —
(a)where the relevant year is 2010, 2011 or 2012 —
(i)the Board may, in its discretion, credit a relevant contribution under paragraph (1), or make a provisional credit under paragraph (4), in favour of the member, of such amount as the Minister may direct (being an amount which exceeds the amount of the relevant contribution or provisional credit, as the case may be, which the member is otherwise entitled to receive in that relevant year); and
(ii)the member shall be entitled to retain the full amount of the relevant contribution or provisional credit, as the case may be, credited or made by the Board; and
(b)where the relevant year is 2013 or any subsequent year —
(i)the Board may, in its discretion, make a cash payment under paragraph (1)(b)(i), or credit a relevant contribution under paragraph (1)(b)(ii) or in accordance with paragraph (1A), in favour of the member, of such amount as the Minister may direct (being an amount which exceeds the amount of the cash payment or relevant contribution, as the case may be, which the member is otherwise entitled to receive in that relevant year); and
(ii)the member shall be entitled to retain the full amount of the cash payment or relevant contribution, as the case may be, made or credited by the Board.