Singapore legislation

Section 27

of Pioneer Generation and Merdeka Generation Funds Act 2014

Section 27

Regulations

Amended by16/20193/201616/2019

(1)

The Minister may make regulations for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.

(2)

Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations for or with respect to all or any of the following matters:

(a)

the financial assistance and grants referred to in section 16(1) and (2), respectively, including prescribing different amounts or proportions, or different maximum amounts or proportions, of financial assistance or grants for different classes of Pioneers and Merdeka Generation Seniors, for different relevant health services and prescribed healthcare providers;

(b)

the method and manner of disbursing the financial assistance and grants referred to in section 16(1) and (2), respectively, by persons appointed under section 19;

(c)

requiring returns to be made to an accounting officer —

(i)

by a person appointed under section 19 regarding the disbursement of financial assistance and grants referred to in section 16(1) and (2), respectively, by that person; and

(ii)

by a prescribed healthcare provider eligible to a reimbursement grant under section 16(2) regarding the cost and expenses of providing any relevant health service to a Pioneer or Merdeka Generation Senior;

(d)

the fees to be paid for any thing or matter done or to be done under this Act in respect of which it appears to the Minister to be expedient to charge fees;

(e)

the procedures of the Appeals Panel, including its decision‑making procedures, the number of members required to be at meetings of the Panel, who is to preside at these meetings, what happens when votes of the members are tied and when a member is not entitled to participate in decision‑making;

(f)

the offences under this Act that may be compounded;

(g)

anything that is required or permitted to be prescribed under this Act.

Amended by16/2019

(3)

However, the means of a Pioneer or Merdeka Generation Senior are irrelevant when prescribing in regulations —

(a)

any cash grant to Pioneers or Merdeka Generation Seniors (as the case may be) referred to in section 16(1)(a), (b) or (c);

(b)

the maximum proportion or maximum amount for any subsidy referred to in section 16(1)(d) or (f);

(c)

the amount for any subsidy referred to in section 16(1)(e); or

(d)

any reimbursement grant referred to in section 16(2).

Amended by3/201616/2019

(4)

The regulations made under this section may provide —

(a)

that healthcare providers be prescribed by reference to a particular register, list or other document that is specified in the regulations, provided that the register, list or document is available for inspection (on the Internet or otherwise) by members of the public; and

(b)

that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $2,500 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or with both.

(5)

All regulations made under this section are to be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.