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On 20/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 20/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 20/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 01/03/2013.
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Medical treatment provided to person other than dependant
24.
—(1)  The Minister for Health may, in his discretion and subject to such terms and conditions as he may impose, authorise a member to withdraw the whole or part of the amount standing to his credit in his medisave account for the payment of charges incurred in respect of —
(a)
any medical treatment (other than renal dialysis treatment or any approved vaccination) provided by an approved medical practitioner in a Class C or B2 ward of an approved hospital, or in a ward of an approved community hospital, an approved convalescent hospital or an approved hospice 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;
(b)
any day surgical treatment at subsidised rates provided by an approved medical practitioner in an approved day surgery centre;
(c)
any approved treatment in any approved day rehabilitation centre;
(d)
any radiosurgery treatment at subsidised rates at an approved medical institution;
(e)
any approved medical treatment provided on an out-patient basis at subsidised rates;
(f)
any approved chronic illness treatment provided on an out-patient basis by an approved medical practitioner at an approved CIT medical institution
(g)
any renal dialysis treatment received on or after 1st January 2009 at an approved centre or approved hospital, and the payment made on or after 1st January 2009 for any purchase of any approved consumables or any fees for outpatient training to administer dialysis;
(h)
any approved vaccination (other than against Hepatitis B) provided on an out-patient basis by an approved medical practitioner in an approved clinic, approved community hospital or approved CIT medical institution;
(i)
any medical treatment (other than any approved vaccination) provided by an approved palliative care provider; or
(j)
any approved screening provided on an out-patient basis in an approved clinic, approved hospital or approved clinical laboratory,
to a person other than a member’s dependant as if the person were the member’s dependant.
(1A)  Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Minister for Health may, upon a request by a member in any particular case, approve the withdrawal by the member of the whole or part of the amount standing to his credit in his medisave account for the payment of charges incurred in respect of any of the following treatments received on or after 1st May 2008 by a person other than the member’s dependant as if that person were the member’s dependant, subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister for Health may impose:
(a)
any medical treatment specified in paragraph (1)(a) in a ward of an approved hospital, approved community hospital, approved convalescent hospital or approved hospice, as the case may be, other than a ward of the type mentioned in that paragraph; or
(b)
any treatment specified in paragraph (1)(b), (d) or (e) at non-subsidised rates.
(2)  Where the Minister authorises a withdrawal under paragraph (1) or approves a withdrawal under paragraph (1A), the person referred to in the relevant paragraph shall for the purposes of these Regulations be deemed to be the dependant of such member.
(3)  In paragraph (1)(e), “approved medical treatment” means any of the following medical treatments:
(a)
radiotherapy treatment from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital;
(b)
treatment of neoplasms by chemotherapy from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital;
(c)
blood transfusions and desferrioxamine for the medical treatment of thalassaemia from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital;
(d)
intravenous antibiotic infusion from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital as designated by the Minister for Health;
(e)
rental of devices for long term oxygen therapy and infant continuous positive airway pressure therapy from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital;
(f)
immunosuppressants for organ transplant from an approved medical practitioner in an approved hospital.
(4)  In paragraph (1)(g), “approved consumables” has the same meaning as in regulation 19(5).