Singapore legislation
Section 13B
Section 13B
Voluntary contributions
(1)
Despite anything in this Act but subject to any regulations made under section 77(1), and such terms and conditions as the Board may impose —
any person may —
if he or she is a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore in respect of whom no contribution is required to be paid under this Act, contribute voluntarily to the Fund in such manner and at such rate as the Minister may direct; or
on or after 1 January 2011, voluntarily pay to the Fund contributions for any other person (being a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore in respect of whom no contribution is required to be paid under this Act) in such manner and at such rate as the Minister may direct;
the Board must credit every contribution received under paragraph (a)(i) or (ii) into an ordinary account, a medisave account or a special account in such manner as the Minister may direct; and
the Minister may give different directions in respect of different classes of members.
(2)
Despite anything in this Act but subject to any regulations made under section 77(1), and such terms and conditions as the Board may impose —
any person may, on or after 1 January 2011, voluntarily pay to the Fund contributions for any other person (being a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore in respect of whom any contribution is required to be paid under this Act, but no contribution is required to be paid under this Act by the firstmentioned person) in such manner and at such rate as the Minister may direct;
the Board must credit every contribution received under paragraph (a) into an ordinary account, a medisave account or a special account in such manner as the Minister may direct; and
the Minister may give different directions in respect of different classes of members.
(3)
The aggregate of the following amounts which may be contributed by or for a person must not, in any year, exceed such sum as the Minister may prescribe by regulations made under section 77(1):
the amount which that person may contribute voluntarily in that year under subsection (1)(a)(i);
the amount which may be contributed for that person in that year under subsection (1)(a)(ii) or (2)(a); (c)such other amounts which may be contributed by or for that person in that year as the Minister may prescribe by regulations made under section 77(1).
(3A)
[Deleted by Act 6 of 2016]
(4)
Every amount voluntarily paid to the Fund on or after 1 January 2011, but before 30 December 2011, by a person as a contribution for any other person (being a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore in respect of whom no contribution is required to be paid under this Act, or being a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore in respect of whom any contribution is required to be paid under this Act, but no contribution is required to be paid under this Act by the firstmentioned person) is deemed to be and always to have been validly paid, and no legal proceedings shall lie or be instituted or maintained in any court of law on account of or in respect of any such payment.
(5)
Despite subsections (1) and (2), the Board may refuse to credit any voluntary contribution received under subsection (1)(a), (2)(a) or (3)(c) to a member’s account in the Fund under this section —
where the amount of the intended voluntary contribution for any year, if paid into the Fund to the person’s credit, will result in the prescribed sum under subsection (3) being exceeded for that year;
where the intended voluntary contribution is to be made only to the medisave account of the person and the amount of the intended voluntary contribution, if paid into the person’s medisave account, will result in —
the total amount in the person’s medisave account exceeding the amount that the Minister directs under section 13(6); or
the prescribed sum under subsection (3) being exceeded for that year; or
in such other circumstances as may be prescribed in regulations made under section 77(1).