Singapore legislation
Section 26
Section 26
Confidential information
(1)
Where the Minister certifies, under the Minister’s hand, that a public officer, a public authority or any other organisation or person (called in this subsection the recipient organisation) requires any particular class of confidential information about a person (called in this subsection the person concerned), which is in the possession of a Government department or another public authority, for the administration or enforcement of the Scheme or in order to disburse or facilitate the disbursement of any grant, subsidy or benefit under a healthcare‑related public scheme, in relation to the person concerned —
the Minister charged with the responsibility for that Government department or other public authority may, in addition to any other power conferred by any written law, direct that Government department or other public authority to provide so much of the confidential information to the recipient organisation as the recipient organisation requires for that purpose; and
that Government department or other public authority is to comply with the direction under paragraph (a).
(2)
The Board may use so much of the confidential information about a person, obtained by the Board before, on or after 10 March 2015 in the course of performing the Board’s functions or duties under the CPF Act, to administer or enforce the Scheme in relation to that person as —
the Minister certifies, under the Minister’s hand, to be required by the Board for that purpose; and
the Minister charged with the responsibility for the Board approves to be used for that purpose.
(3)
The Board may use so much of the confidential information about a person obtained by the Board in the course of performing its functions or duties under this Act to perform the Board’s functions and duties under the CPF Act in relation to that person as the Minister approves to be used for that purpose.
(4)
A person who had consented, before 10 March 2015, to the Board disclosing information about that person in the Board’s possession to an insurer to administer or operate an insurance scheme referred to in section 77(1)(k) of the CPF Act in relation to that person, or that person’s dependant, is deemed to consent to the Board disclosing information, obtained by the Board on or after that date in the course of administering or enforcing the CPF Act or this Act, to that insurer to administer or operate that insurance scheme (whether pursuant to regulations made under section 77(1)(k) of the CPF Act or regulations made under section 34(2)(j)), until the deemed consent is withdrawn.
(5)
Subsections (1), (2) and (3) do not apply to —
confidential information about a person obtained directly or indirectly from a medical institution or a medical practitioner who attended to that person at that medical institution; and
means information.