Regulation 3

any medical treatment (except any MIC@Home treatment or qualifying combined treatment) or psychiatric treatment —

in or provided by any approved medical institution;

at home provided by an approved medical practitioner of an approved medical institution; or

in any other centre, clinic, hospital or premises approved by the Minister for Health under paragraph (2);

any approved rehabilitation treatment —

in any approved medical institution from an approved medical practitioner or an approved allied health professional; or

in any other centre, clinic, hospital or premises approved by the Minister for Health under paragraph (2);

any MIC@Home treatment or qualifying combined treatment; or

any medical treatment (other than any approved vaccination) at home from an approved home palliative care provider,the Board may, on an application by the member, authorise the whole or part of the amount standing to the member’s credit in the member’s medisave account to be withdrawn and used for the payment of the medical treatment, psychiatric treatment, approved rehabilitation treatment, MIC@Home treatment or qualifying combined treatment received, or to be received as part of an approved treatment package, by the member or the member’s dependant, subject to the direction of the Minister for Health under paragraph (2)(b) and such other terms and conditions as the Board may impose.

approve such centre, clinic, hospital or other premises for the purpose of the member’s application to the Board under paragraph (1) for the withdrawal of moneys from the member’s medisave account to pay for the treatment received, or to be received as part of an approved treatment package, by the member or the member’s dependant; and

direct that, for the purposes of this Part, the withdrawal of moneys be made as if such centre, clinic, hospital or other premises were a type of approved medical institution as defined in regulation 2(1) as the Minister for Health may specify.

where the member —

has received, or will receive as part of an approved treatment package, on such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health may impose, any medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved rehabilitation treatment in the respective circumstances set out in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d); and

is —

unconscious; or

otherwise mentally incapacitated and unable to make the application under paragraph (1) himself or herself;

where the member —

has received any medical or psychiatric treatment as an in‑patient on such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health may impose, in —

any approved hospital;

any approved MIC@Home treatment provider, in the case of in‑patient treatment received as part of any qualifying combined treatment;

any approved community hospital;

any approved convalescent hospital;

any approved in‑patient hospice;

any approved IPC provider; or

any approved day hospital;

has not made an application under paragraph (1) himself or herself; and

dies on or after 1 July 2006 in the premises referred to in sub‑paragraph (i)(A), (C), (D), (E), (F) or (G), as the case may be;

where the member has received, before the member’s death, any medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved rehabilitation treatment under such other circumstances as the Minister for Health may approve for the purposes of this Part, on such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health may impose.

if the application is in respect of any medical treatment or psychiatric treatment (except any specified out‑patient treatment, or any treatment, scan, vaccination or screening, or approved out‑patient parenteral nutrition, mentioned in regulation 21C(1)), or approved rehabilitation treatment received, other than as part of an approved treatment package, by the member or the member’s dependant, be made within the period of 12 months, or within such further period as the Board may specify in any particular case, commencing immediately after the relevant date; or

if the application is in respect of any medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved rehabilitation treatment received, or to be received, as part of an approved treatment package, by the member or the member’s dependant —

be made within the period of 12 months, or within such further period as the Board may specify for a treatment of that type or in any particular case, commencing immediately after the date on which the first medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved rehabilitation treatment (as the case may be) of the approved treatment package is received; and

be subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health may impose.

any specified out‑patient treatment received by the member or the member’s spouse; or

any treatment, scan, vaccination or screening, or approved out‑patient parenteral nutrition, mentioned in regulation 21C(1) received by the member or the member’s spouse,must be made by the member within the period of 12 months, or within such further period as the Board may specify in any particular case, commencing immediately after the relevant date.

is unconscious; or

is otherwise mentally incapacitated and unable to make the application under paragraph (6) himself or herself.

if the Board is of the opinion that the conditions mentioned in regulation 21B(2) or 21C(2) (as the case may be) are satisfied, and has determined that such withdrawal does not exceed the withdrawal limit in regulation 21D; and

subject to the direction of the Minister for Health and such other terms and conditions as the Board may impose.

in a case where the member or the member’s dependant received any medical, psychiatric or approved rehabilitation treatment as an in‑patient or received day surgical treatment in an approved medical institution — the date of discharge of the member or the member’s dependant (as the case may be) from the approved medical institution;

in a case where the member received any medical or psychiatric treatment as an in‑patient in an approved medical institution and the member dies in the approved medical institution before the member’s discharge from the approved medical institution — the date of the member’s death;

in a case of an application under paragraph (6) — the date on which the member or the member’s spouse (as the case may be) received the specified out‑patient treatment, or the treatment, scan, vaccination or screening, or approved out‑patient parenteral nutrition, mentioned in regulation 21C(1); or

in any other case — the date on which the member or the member’s dependant received any medical or approved rehabilitation treatment as an out‑patient.

in a case where the member or the member’s dependant received any MIC@Home treatment — the date on which the member or the member’s dependant (as the case may be) ceases to receive the MIC@Home treatment; or

despite sub‑paragraph (a), in a case where the member or the member’s dependant received any qualifying combined treatment — the date on which the member or the member’s dependant (as the case may be) ceases to receive the qualifying combined treatment.