Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) Regulations 2005

No. S 427

Central Provident Fund Act

(Chapter 36)

Central Provident Fund (Medishield Scheme) Regulations 2005

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 57 of the Central Provident Fund Act, the Minister for Manpower hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) Regulations 2005 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2005.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“assured amount”, in relation to any medical treatment received by an insured person, means the amount specified in the Third Schedule in respect of that medical treatment;

“dependant” means a member’s spouse, child, parent or grandparent who is below the age of 70 years;

“excluded medical treatment” means any medical treatment specified in the First Schedule;

“incapacitated” has the same meaning as in section 29 of the Act;

“insured out-patient medical treatment” means any of the following medical treatment as an out-patient of any approved hospital:

(a)	renal dialysis;
(b)	chemotherapy for cancer;
(c)	radiotherapy for cancer;
(d)	administration of cyclosporin for organ transplant;
(e)	administration of erythropoietin for dialysis;

“medical treatment” means any medical, surgical, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or renal dialysis treatment and includes investigations, medicines, curative materials and surgical implants, and where such treatment has been received by a person as an in-patient in an approved hospital, includes the maintenance of that person in the hospital, but shall not include any excluded medical treatment;

“member” includes a member who is an undischarged bankrupt;

“Plan” means Plan A or Plan B, as the case may be, of the Scheme in Division 3 of Part II;

“policy year” means a period of 12 months from the date of the commencement of an insured person’s insurance cover under the Scheme;

“premium” means the premium payable by an insured person in each policy year under the Scheme;

“Saint Andrew’s Mission Hospital” means the Saint Andrew’s Mission Hospital incorporated under the Saint Andrew’s Mission Hospital Ordinance (Cap. 376);

“Scheme” means the MediShield Scheme in Division 2 or 3, as the case may be, of Part II.

Persons not covered under Scheme

3.—(1) Except as expressly provided otherwise in these Regulations, these Regulations shall not apply to —

(a)	any person who has attained the age of 80 years ;
(b)	any person who is neither a citizen nor a permanent resident of Singapore;
(c)	any person who is physically or mentally incapacitated from ever continuing in any employment;
(d)	any person who is of unsound mind;
(e)	any person who is suffering from a terminal illness or disease; and
(f)	any person or class of persons whom the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, specify.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1)(a), these Regulations shall apply to an insured person whose policy year under the Scheme had commenced within the 12-month period immediately preceding his attaining 80 years of age, until the end of that policy year.

Made this 29th day of June 2005.

YONG YING-I

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

[MMS 10.1/82 V12; AG/LEG/SL/36/2005/3 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 78(2) of the Central Provident Fund Act).

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