Regulation 15

Where a female member, or a female dependant of a member, has received medical treatment as an in‑patient from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital in respect of her confinement for the delivery of a child, no withdrawal is to be made under regulation 5 for the payment of any charges relating to the medical treatment, except with the approval of the Minister for Health, if —

Despite paragraph (1)(b)(ii), where the total of the amounts standing to the credit of the parents of the child in their respective medisave accounts is less than $15,000, but will be increased to $15,000 within such period after the date of the delivery of the child as the Board may determine, the Board may, on the application of a member, in its discretion and subject to such terms and conditions as it may impose, allow the member to make the withdrawal without the approval of the Minister for Health under paragraph (1).

In this regulation and regulation 16, “living children” includes any living children who have been adopted by the female member or female dependant in accordance with any written law relating to the adoption of children, but excludes any living children of the female member or female dependant who have been adopted by a person other than the female member or female dependant or the spouse of the female member or female dependant, in accordance with any written law relating to the adoption of children.