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3.
—(1) Subject to the Act and these Regulations, where a member or his dependant has received —
(a)
any medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved treatment —
(i)
in any approved medical institution from an approved medical practitioner; or
(ii)
in any other centre, clinic, hospital or premises approved by the Minister for Health under paragraph (1A); or
(b)
any medical treatment (other than any approved vaccination) at home from an approved palliative care provider,
the Board may, on an application by the member within the period of 12 months commencing immediately after the relevant date or within such further period as may be specified by the Board, authorise the whole or part of the amount standing to the member’s credit in his medisave account to be withdrawn and used for the payment of the medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved treatment received by the member or his dependant, subject to the direction of the Minister for Health under paragraph (1A)(b) and such other terms and conditions as the Board may impose.
(1A) Where a member or his dependant has received any treatment on or after 1st June 2007 in any centre, clinic, hospital or other premises that is not an approved medical institution, the Minister for Health may, on the application of the member and subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks fit to impose —
(a)
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 his medisave account to pay for the treatment he or his dependent received; and
(b)
direct that, for the purposes of these Regulations, 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 as the Minister for Health may specify.
(2) Where a member has received treatment in any of the situations specified in paragraph (3), the Board may, on an application by a prescribed person within the period of 12 months commencing immediately after the relevant date or within such further period as may be specified by the Board, authorise the whole or part of the amount standing to the member’s credit in his medisave account to be withdrawn and used for the payment of the treatment received by the member, subject to such terms and conditions as the Board may impose.
(3) The situations mentioned in paragraph (2) are as follows:
(a)
where the member —
(i)
has received —
(A)
any medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved treatment in any approved medical institution; or
(B)
any medical treatment (other than any approved vaccination) at home from an approved palliative care provider;
(ii)
is unconscious or otherwise mentally incapacitated; and
(iii)
is unable to make an application under paragraph (1) himself;
(b)
where the member —
(i)
has received any medical or psychiatric treatment as an in-patient from an approved medical practitioner in —
(A)
any approved hospital;
(B)
any approved community hospital;
(C)
any approved convalescent hospital;
(D)
any approved hospice; or
(E)
any approved day hospital;
(ii)
has not made an application under paragraph (1) himself; and
(iii)
dies, on or after 1st July 2006, before he is discharged from the approved hospital or hospice referred to in sub-paragraph (i); and
(c)
where the member has received, before his death, any medical treatment, psychiatric treatment or approved treatment under such other circumstances as the Minister for Health may approve for the purposes of these Regulations, on such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health may impose.
(4) Every application for the withdrawal of moneys from a member’s medisave account under these Regulations shall be made in such form, and supported by such information and documents, as the Board may require.
(5) An application for the withdrawal of moneys from a member’s medisave account made by a prescribed person under paragraph (2) in relation to a situation specified in paragraph (3)(a) shall be signed by the prescribed person in the presence of an approved medical practitioner who shall confirm in writing that the member is unable to make the application due to his medical condition.
(6) In this regulation, unless the context otherwise requires, “relevant date” means —
(a)
in a case where the member or his dependant received any medical, psychiatric or approved treatment as an in-patient or received day surgical treatment in an approved medical institution, the date of discharge of the member or his dependant (as the case may be) from the approved medical institution;
(b)
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 his discharge therefrom, the date of his death;
(c)
in a case where the member or his dependant received as an out-patient any approved medical treatment comprising a course of such treatment, the date on which the member or his dependant (as the case may be) received the first treatment of the course; or
(d)
in any other case, the date on which the member or his dependant received any medical or approved treatment as an out-patient.
(7) For the purposes of this regulation and regulations 4, 9A, 13, 23, 24 and 25, unless the context otherwise requires, “medical treatment” includes home palliative care.
(8) For the purposes of this regulation and regulations 4, 13, 23 and 25, unless the context otherwise requires, “medical treatment” includes approved screening.