Singapore legislation
Regulation 22
of Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations 2001
Regulation 22
Authorisation of withdrawal from future contributions
Subregulation 1
Where a member or the member’s dependant has received —
any medical or psychiatric treatment as an in‑patient in a Class C or B2 ward of an approved hospital, or in a ward of an approved community hospital, an approved convalescent hospital, an approved in‑patient hospice or an approved IPC provider which is equivalent to a Class C or B2 ward of an approved hospital and in respect of which the Government makes an annual grant in aid of recurrent expenditure incurred or to be incurred in operating or maintaining the ward;
any day surgical treatment at subsidised rates at an approved day surgery centre; or
any radiosurgery treatment at subsidised rates at an approved medical institution,and the amount standing to the member’s credit in the member’s medisave account is insufficient to pay for the charges incurred in respect of the treatment mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a), (b) or (c), the Board may, with the approval of the Minister for Health and subject to such terms and conditions as the Board may impose, authorise the member to withdraw the member’s future contributions to his or her medisave account to pay the outstanding balance.
Subregulation 2
Paragraph (1) does not apply to —
any surgical treatment to reverse any treatment for sexual sterilisation;
any medical treatment for conception; or
any approved vaccination received in a ward of an approved convalescent hospital, approved in‑patient hospice or approved IPC provider which is equivalent to a Class C or B2 ward of an approved hospital.