MediShield Life Scheme Regulations 2015 - Singapore Statutes Online

No. S 622

MediShield Life Scheme Act 2015

(ACT 4 OF 2015)

MediShield Life Scheme Regulations 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 34 of the MediShield Life Scheme Act 2015, the Minister for Health makes the following Regulations:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the MediShield Life Scheme Regulations 2015 and come into operation on 1 November 2015.

Definitions

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

“additional private insurance coverage” means any private insurance cover provided under an integrated shield plan that is additional to the insurance cover provided by the MediShield Life Component of that integrated shield plan;

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

“dependant”, in relation to a CPF member, means —

(a)	a CPF member’s spouse, child, parent or grandparent; or
(b)	any other person whom the Board approves as a dependant for the purpose of these Regulations;

“insured person” —

(a)	in relation to an insurance cover under the MediShield Scheme or an integrated medical insurance plan, means a person who was insured under the MediShield Scheme or integrated medical insurance plan, as the case may be, before 1 November 2015; or
(b)	in relation to an integrated shield plan, a medisave‑approved plan or a non-integrated shield plan, means a person who is insured under the integrated shield plan, medisave‑approved plan or non‑integrated shield plan, as the case may be;

“insurer” means an insurer which is licensed under the Insurance Act (Cap. 142);

“integrated medical insurance plan” means any plan, under which a person was insured before 1 November 2015, under a medical insurance policy approved by the Minister for the purposes of regulation 4(1)(b) of the revoked PMIS Regulations, with or without a MediShield Component;

“integrated shield plan” means a medisave-approved plan that comprises a MediShield Life Component and additional private insurance coverage;

“medisave-approved plan” means a medical insurance plan that provides insurance under a medical insurance policy approved by the Minister, in relation to any class of persons, for the purposes of regulation 4;

“MediShield Component”, in relation to a person insured under an integrated medical insurance plan, means the person’s insurance cover under the MediShield Scheme which formed part of the person’s integrated medical insurance plan;

“MediShield Life Component” means insurance cover provided by the Scheme which forms part of an integrated shield plan;

“MediShield Life cover” means insurance cover under the Scheme;

“non-integrated shield plan” means a medisave-approved plan that does not include a MediShield Life Component;

“policy year” has the same meaning as in the MediShield Life Scheme Regulations 2015 (G.N. No. S 622/2015);

“revoked MediShield Regulations” means the Central Provident Fund (MediShield Scheme) Regulations (Cap. 36, Rg 20) as in force immediately before 1 November 2015;

“revoked PMIS Regulations” means the Central Provident Fund (Private Medical Insurance Scheme) Regulations (Cap. 36, Rg 26) as in force immediately before 1 November 2015.

(2) For the purposes of these Regulations —

(a)	if the day of the month on which a person was born cannot be ascertained, the person is taken to be born on the first day of the month in which the person was born; and
(b)	if the month in which the person was born cannot be ascertained, the person is taken to be born in January.

Applications and notices

3. An application made or a notice given to the Board under these Regulations must be made or given in such form and supported by such evidence as the Board may require.

Made on 28 October 2015.

TAN CHING YEE

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[MH 96:27/12; AG/LEGIS/SL/176A/2015/2 Vol. 6]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 34(4) of the MediShield Life Scheme Act 2015).

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