Central Provident Fund Act 1953 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Offences, Penalties and Proceedings
59. Publication of information to unauthorised person, etc.
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Any person employed by the Board who, without lawful authority, publishes or communicates to any person, otherwise than in the ordinary course of his or her duty or employment, any information acquired by him or her in the course of his or her duty or employment shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $4,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
employed
“employed” means engaged under a contract of service or apprenticeship or in an employment in respect of which contributions are payable under regulations made under section 77(1);
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On the request of an insurer administering or operating an insurance scheme referred to in section 34(2)(j) of the MediShield Life Scheme Act 2015 or section 77(1)(k) or a Supplement Scheme for information about a person or the person’s dependant, which the insurer requires to administer or operate the insurance scheme in relation to the person, or the person’s dependant, the Board may disclose to the insurer such information (including any medical information and information relating to the amount standing to the credit of the person in the person’s medisave account) obtained by the Board, in the course of performing the Board’s functions or duties under this Act, for such purpose as the Minister may approve.
Scheme
“Scheme” means the Lifelong Income Scheme established and maintained by the Board under section 27K.
The insurer may use the information about the person or the person’s dependant obtained under subsection (6) only for the purpose approved by the Minister under that subsection.
An insurer who knowingly contravenes subsection (7) shall be guilty of an offence.
Despite any provision of the National Registration Act 1965 or the Registration of Births and Deaths Act 2021, where a member has died in Singapore, and the Board has received information on the member’s death from any officer appointed to perform duties under either or both of those Acts, the Board may, in the course of authorising the payment of any amount under section 20(1)(b) or (1A) to a person nominated by the member in accordance with section 25(1), performing its functions under section 25 or 25A in relation to any amount payable on the death of the member, or performing its functions under section 26 or 26A in relation to any vested shares or designated shares payments, disclose to any person —
member
“member of the Fund” or “member” means any person to whose credit any amount is standing in the Fund, or for whom any account in the Fund is maintained for any of the purposes of this Act;
the name and identity card number of the member;
the date of the member’s death; and
the source of the Board’s information on the member’s death.
Where the Board has been notified of a member’s death, the Board may, in the course of performing its functions under section 25 or 25A in relation to any amount payable on the member’s death, or performing its functions under section 26 or 26A in relation to any vested shares or designated shares payments, disclose the information relating to the deceased member as set out in subsection (11) to any of the following persons, as the case may be:
Board
“Board” means the Central Provident Fund Board constituted under section 3;
any person the Board has reason to believe is entitled to receive an amount payable out of the Fund on the deceased member’s death under a memorandum executed under section 25(1);
any person who may be entitled to receive an amount payable on the deceased member’s death in accordance with section 25A(1), on the assumption that no person has been nominated by the deceased member under section 25(1);
any other persons as may be prescribed in regulations made under section 77(1).
The Board may disclose the information relating to the following under subsection (10):
the member’s accounts in the Fund;
the memorandum executed under section 25(1);
any other information as may be prescribed in regulations made under section 77(1).