Singapore legislation

Regulation 25

of Central Provident Fund (Medisave Account Withdrawals) Regulations 2001

Regulation 25

Payment by Board

Subregulation 1

All moneys authorised by the Board to be withdrawn from a member’s medisave account under this Part are to be paid —

(a)

by the Board to a member or a specified payee; and

(b)

in such manner as the Board may determine.

Subregulation 2

In this regulation, “specified payee” means —

(a)

an approved medical institution or approved home palliative care provider —

(i)

from which the member or the member’s dependant received, or is to receive, any medical, psychiatric or approved rehabilitation treatment;

(ii)

that has submitted the application for withdrawal of moneys from the member’s medisave account on behalf of the member, in respect of any out‑patient scan, pre‑delivery medical treatment or specified out‑patient treatment mentioned in regulation 13A, 16 or 21B, respectively; or

(iii)

that is affiliated to a hospital outside Singapore from which the member, or an individual who may or may not be the member’s dependant, received or is to receive any qualifying overseas medical treatment; or

(b)

the prescribed person who made the application under regulation 3(3) or (7) or 17(2), or a person specified by that prescribed person, whom the Board verifies has paid for the treatment for which the moneys are authorised by the Board to be withdrawn.