Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes Act 2000 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Medifund Scheme
14. Medifund committees
Feedback & supportThe Minister may, by order in the Gazette, appoint one or more Medifund committees, comprising persons appointed by the Minister, to consider and approve applications from eligible patients in approved institutions and to administer payments out of their Medifund Accounts.
Medifund
“Medifund” means the Medical Endowment Fund established under the repealed Medical Endowment Scheme Act and reconstituted under this Act;
The order under subsection (1) must designate the approved institutions and the classes of eligible patients in relation to which a Medifund committee may approve applications under section 15 and exercise any other powers or duties under this Part.
Medifund committee
“Medifund committee” means any committee appointed under section 14;
A Medifund committee may sue or be sued in the name by which it is described in an order under subsection (1).