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On 26/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 26/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 26/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 01/01/1998.
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Approved out-patient medical treatment
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—(1)  Except as provided in paragraphs (2), (3), (4) and (5), no withdrawal shall be permitted under these Regulations for the payment of any charges incurred in respect of any medical treatment afforded to a member or his dependant as an out-patient.
(2)  Where a member or his dependant has received cancer chemotherapy treatment as an out-patient from an approved medical practitioner in an approved clinic on or after 1st January 1993, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of such treatment shall not exceed such sum as is specified in the third column of the Schedule in relation to that approved medical treatment.
(3)  Where a member or his dependant has received any approved medical treatment as an out-patient from an approved medical practitioner in a Government hospital or in an approved hospital on or after 1st August 1991, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of such treatment shall not exceed such sum as is specified in the third column of the Schedule in relation to that approved medical treatment.
(3A)  No withdrawal shall be permitted for the payment of any charges incurred in respect of Azidothymidine (AZT) treatment except where such treatment is for the member himself.
(4)  Where a member or his dependant has received any vaccination against Hepatitis B from an approved medical practitioner —
(a)
as an out-patient in an approved clinic on or after 1st January 1988;
(b)
as an out-patient in a Government clinic on or after 1st June 1988; or
(c)
at an approved community hospital on or after 1st April 1992,
the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of the vaccination shall not exceed the amount specified in regulation 10(1).
(5)  Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, where a member or his dependant has received gamma knife treatment from an approved medical practitioner at the Singapore Gamma Knife Centre on or after 27th November 1995, the amount that may be withdrawn by the member for the payment of such treatment shall not exceed $150 per day for hospital charges, and $7,500 per treatment or the total credit balance in the member’s medisave account, whichever is the lower.
(6)  In this regulation, “Singapore Gamma Knife Centre” means any premises which provides gamma knife treatment for the care of in-patients and which is approved by the Minister for Health for the purposes of these Regulations.