Singapore legislation
Clause 32
Clause 32
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 a recipient organisation) requires any particular class of confidential information about a person (called in this section a data subject), which is in the possession of a Government department, another public authority or the Administrator, for the administration or enforcement of the CSHL Scheme, ESH Scheme or any prescribed social or healthcare‑related public scheme (as the case may be), or in order to disburse or facilitate the disbursement of any grant, subsidy or benefit under a prescribed social or healthcare‑related public scheme, in relation to the data subject —
the Minister charged with the responsibility for that Government department or other public authority, or the Minister charged with the responsibility for health in the case of the Administrator, may, in addition to any other power conferred by any written law, direct that Government department or other public authority or the Administrator (as the case may be) to provide so much of the class of confidential information about the data subject to the recipient organisation as the recipient organisation requires for that purpose; and
that Government department or other public authority or the Administrator (as the case may be) must comply with the direction under paragraph (a).
(2)
The Board may use so much of the confidential information about a data subject obtained by the Board before, on or after the date of commencement of this section in the course of performing the Board’s functions or duties under the CPF Act, to administer or enforce the CSHL Scheme or ESH Scheme in relation to that data subject 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 data subject 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 data subject as the Minister approves to be used for that purpose.
(4)
An Administrator may use so much of the confidential information about a data subject obtained by the Administrator in the course of performing its functions or duties under this Act to administer or enforce the CSHL Scheme, ESH Scheme or any prescribed social or healthcare‑related public scheme in relation to that data subject as the Minister approves to be used for that purpose.
(5)
A person who had consented, before the date of commencement of section 64(2)(l), to the Board disclosing information about that person in the Board’s possession to an insurer to administer or operate an insurance scheme mentioned 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 64(2)(l)), until such deemed consent is withdrawn.
(6)
IRAS may, if it is prescribed as a recovery body, use to enforce the CSHL Scheme or ESH Scheme so much of the means information and confidential information obtained by it (whether before, on or after the date of commencement of this section) in the course of performing its functions under section 6 of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Act as the Minister charged with the responsibility for finance approves to be used for such purpose.
(7)
This section does not apply to —
confidential information about a person obtained directly or indirectly from a healthcare institution or a healthcare practitioner who attended to that person; and
means information, except means information obtained by IRAS (if any) under subsection (6).