Pioneer Generation Fund (Pioneer Generation Benefits) Regulations 2015

No. S 195

Pioneer Generation Fund Act 2014

(ACT 43 OF 2014)

Pioneer Generation Fund
(Pioneer Generation Benefits) Regulations 2015

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 27 of the Pioneer Generation Fund Act 2014, the Minister for Finance makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Pioneer Generation Fund (Pioneer Generation Benefits) Regulations 2015 and are deemed to have come into operation on 9 March 2015.

Cash grant to be credited to Medisave account

2. For the purposes of section 16(1)(a) of the Act, the amount of cash grant to be credited each year to a Pioneer’s Medisave account is the amount specified in the Schedule opposite the year in which the Pioneer was born.

Cash grant for disability

3.—(1) For the purposes of section 16(1)(b) of the Act, the amount of cash grant to be payable to a Pioneer with disability is $100 every month, if the Pioneer satisfies the condition in paragraph (2).

(2) The Pioneer may be paid the cash grant under paragraph (1) if, in relation to the Pioneer’s substantial need for continuing support in activities of daily living, the Pioneer requires permanent support from any person in carrying out at least 3 of the following activities of daily living:

(a)	walking or moving on any level surface;
(b)	dressing;
(c)	washing or bathing;
(d)	feeding oneself food;
(e)	transferring from a chair to a bed, or vice versa;
(f)	toileting.

Maximum subsidy of cost of relevant health service

4.—(1) For the purposes of section 16(1)(d) of the Act, the maximum subsidy of the cost of any relevant health service, rendered or provided to a Pioneer by any prescribed healthcare provider, is 50% of that cost.

(2) Every prescribed healthcare provider must determine the cost of any relevant health service under paragraph (1) after deducting all or any other subsidies available to citizens of Singapore for that relevant health service.

List of prescribed healthcare providers

5. For the purposes of section 16(1)(d) and (2) of the Act, the prescribed healthcare providers are specified in the Pioneer Generation Package section of the Ministry of Health’s official website at http://www.moh.gov.sg.

Made on 1 April 2015.

LIM SOO HOON

Permanent Secretary
(Finance) (Performance),
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[B061.090.2914.V1; AG/LLRD/SL/230A/2013/2 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 27(4) of the Pioneer Generation Fund Act 2014).

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