No. S 361
Medical and Elderly Care
Endowment Schemes Act
(CHAPTER 173A)
Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes
(Medifund Committees)
Order 2015
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes Act, the Minister for Health makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1.  This Order may be cited as the Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes (Medifund Committees) Order 2015 and comes into operation on 18 June 2015.
Medifund committees
2.—(1)  The Minister appoints the Medifund committees named in the first column of Parts 1 and 2 of the Schedule for the purposes of Part II of the Act.
(2)  A Medifund committee named in the first column of Part 1 of the Schedule may —
(a)consider and approve applications under section 15 of the Act from all classes of eligible patients in one or more approved institutions designated in the second column of Part 1 of the Schedule corresponding to the Medifund committee; and
(b)exercise the powers and perform the duties under Part II of the Act in relation to such approved institutions and classes of eligible patients.
(3)  A Medifund committee named in the first column of Part 2 of the Schedule may —
(a)in one or more approved institutions designated in the second column of Part 2 of the Schedule corresponding to the Medifund committee, consider and approve applications under section 15 of the Act from the classes of eligible patients specified opposite to the approved institutions in the third column of Part 2 of the Schedule; and
(b)exercise the powers and perform the duties under Part II of the Act in relation to such approved institutions and classes of eligible patients.
Revocation
3.  The Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes (Medifund Committees) Order 2013 (G.N. No. S 336/2013) is revoked.
Made on 5 June 2015.
TAN CHING YEE
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.
[MH 24:10/13 Vol. 7; AG/LLRD/SL/173A/2010/2 Vol. 2]