Singapore legislation
Clause 6
Clause 6
Recovery of amounts paid in excess and short payments
(1)
If, on account of any material change in the information available to the Board or the correction of any error, or in any other circumstances prescribed in the relevant regulations, the Board finds that there is any shortfall in any premium paid in respect of any insurance period by or for any person insured or to be insured under the Scheme, the amount of the shortfall is payable, by all or any of the following persons, and in such proportion, as the Board may require:
a person by whom the premium is payable under section 4(1)(c)(i) or (ii); (b)a person by whom the premium is payable under section 4(2)(b).
(2)
If, on account of any material change in the information available to the Board or the correction of any error, or in any other circumstances prescribed in the relevant regulations, the Board finds that any benefit under the Scheme has been paid in excess of the amount that ought to have been paid under the Scheme, the excess payment is to be repaid to the Fund in accordance with the relevant regulations —
by the insured person; or
if the excess payment has been paid by the Board directly to the credit of an approved medical institution, by that approved medical institution.
(3)
The Board may charge an insured person, a person by whom the premium is payable or an approved medical institution an administrative fee prescribed in the relevant regulations, if any material change, error or prescribed circumstances referred to in subsection (1) or (2) arises from incorrect information which is —
provided by the insured person, the person by whom the premium is payable or the approved medical institution, as the case may be; and
included in a health declaration, means declaration or claim application made under the Scheme.
(4)
Sections 4(2), 7(2), 32(2) and 34(2)(e) and Part 3 apply, with such modifications as may be prescribed in the relevant regulations, to any amount payable under this section as they apply to a premium.