Central Provident Fund (Prescribed Circumstances under Section 13C) Regulations 2022

No. S 279

Central Provident Fund Act 1953

Central Provident Fund
(Prescribed Circumstances under Section 13C)
Regulations 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 77(1) of the Central Provident Fund Act 1953, the Minister for Manpower, after consulting with the Central Provident Fund Board, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations are the Central Provident Fund (Prescribed Circumstances under Section 13C) Regulations 2022 and come into operation on 1 April 2022.

Prescribed circumstance relating to person who applies to be or becomes a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore

2.  For the purpose of section 13C of the Act, the Board may permit a person to pay to the Fund contributions for himself or herself if he or she —

(a) was entitled to withdraw the sum standing to his or her credit in the Fund, by virtue of section 15(2)(b) of the Act or section 15(2)(b) or (c) of the Act as in force before 1 April 2024; and

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(b) subsequently (before, on or after 1 April 2024) applies to be or becomes a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore.

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Prescribed circumstance relating to person with property charge that ceased to be in force

3.—(1)  For the purpose of section 13C of the Act, the Board may permit a person to pay to the Fund contributions for himself or herself if he or she —

(a) applies to the Board to pay to the Fund contributions for himself or herself under section 13C of the Act; and

(b) either —

(i) is the owner of a relevant immovable property on the date of the application mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a); or

(ii) has, within the specified period before the date of the application mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a), sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of a relevant immovable property owned by him or her.

(2)  In this regulation —

“former provision” means section 21(10)(b), 21A(9)(b) or 21B(11)(b) of the Act as in force before 1 January 2013 (as the case may be), read with section 15(15)(e)(ii) or (iii) of the Act as in force before that date, as the case may be;

“relevant immovable property”, in relation to a person mentioned in paragraph (1)(b), means any immovable property —

(a) with a property charge on that person’s estate or interest in that immovable property —

(i) under section 21 or 21A of the Act (as in force before 1 January 2013); or

(ii) constituted on that immovable property under section 21B of the Act (as in force before 1 January 2013);

that ceased to be in force under a former provision; and

(b) that was owned by the person mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) when the property charge mentioned in paragraph (a) was created or constituted and ceased to be in force;

“specified period” means a period of one month or such longer period as the Board may allow in a particular case.

Made on 30 March 2022.

AUBECK KAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Manpower,
Singapore.

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(To be presented to Parliament under section 78(2) of the Central Provident Fund Act 1953).