Infectious Diseases (COVID-19 — Stay Orders) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2021

No. S 753

Infectious Diseases Act

(CHAPTER 137)

Infectious Diseases
(COVID-19 — Stay Orders)
(Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 73 of the Infectious Diseases Act, the Minister for Health makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Infectious Diseases (COVID-19 — Stay Orders) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 7 October 2021.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2(1) of the Infectious Diseases (COVID-19 — Stay Orders) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 182/2020) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “COVID‑19”, the following definition:

“ “mode of transport” does not include passenger travel by air or sea, or passenger travel on a rapid transit system or a bus;”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “home in Singapore” in paragraph (a) of the definition of “place of accommodation”, the words “or a room which is within that house or flat”; and

(c)

by deleting the words “(such as a room in a student hostel)” in paragraph (b) of the definition of “place of accommodation” and substituting the words “or a room which is within any of those premises”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “in writing” in paragraph (1);

(b)

by deleting sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:

“(a)

if the individual is a traveller entering Singapore, on or after 7 October 2021 — for the period starting upon the issue of the order and ending on the later of the following:

(i)

a day specified in the order, which must not be later than the 21st day after the date the order was issued;

(ii)

the day that the individual knows that he or she —

(A)	tests negative for SARS‑CoV‑2 after undergoing any ART or PCR test on a respiratory specimen last taken from the individual before the end of the period specified under sub‑paragraph (i); and
(B)	if the individual is required to undergo a serology test, also tests positive after undergoing a serology test on a respiratory specimen last taken from the individual before the end of the period specified under sub‑paragraph (i);”;

(c)

by inserting, immediately after the words “on or after 6 May 2021” in paragraph (1)(aa), the words “but before 7 October 2021”;

(d)

by deleting sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (1)(aa) and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:

“(ii)

the day that the individual knows that he or she —

(A)	tests negative for SARS‑CoV‑2 after undergoing any ART or PCR test on a respiratory specimen last taken from the individual before the end of the period specified under sub‑paragraph (i); and
(B)	if the individual is required to undergo a serology test, also tests positive after undergoing a serology test on a respiratory specimen last taken from the individual before the end of the period specified under sub‑paragraph (i),”; and

(e)

by deleting the word “or” at the end of sub‑paragraph (a) of paragraph (4), and by inserting immediately thereafter the following sub‑paragraph:

“(aa)

to undergo any ART, PCR test or serology test and at such place and time as the Director or a Health Officer orders under the Act the individual to undergo; or”.

Amendment of regulation 4

4. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (1) and substituting the following sub‑paragraphs:

“(a)

allows into, when the individual’s movement control measure has effect —

(i)	the place of accommodation if not a room, any other individual who is not ordinarily resident in that place of accommodation and is not an approved entrant; or
(ii)	the room which is the place of accommodation, any other individual who is not an approved occupant of that room;

(b)

comes into contact or proximity, when the individual’s movement control measure has effect, with —

(i)	where the place of accommodation is not a room, another individual who is not ordinarily resident in that place of accommodation and is not an approved entrant; or
(ii)	where the place of accommodation is a room, another individual who is not an approved occupant of a room;”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (2), the following paragraph:

“(2A) Without limiting paragraphs (2) and (3), for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) and (b), an individual is —

(a)

an approved occupant of a room if —

(i)	the individual is the subject of a movement control measure under regulation 3(1) or an order under section 15 or 17 of the Act which is in effect (called the subject), and the room is specified as the individual’s place of accommodation under the movement control measure; or
(ii)	the individual is not the subject of any movement control measure but is approved by the Director or another specified person (specially or generally) to be an occupier of that room for the period the movement control measure is in effect;

(b)

an approved entrant to a place of accommodation which is not a room if the individual is not the subject of any movement control measure but is approved by the Director or another specified person (specially or generally) to be an approved entrant to the place of accommodation for the period the movement control measure is in effect; or

(c)

deemed ordinarily resident in any premises which is not a room for the period a movement control measure under regulation 3(1) or an order under section 15 or 17 of the Act is in effect if the individual is the subject of the movement control measure, and the premises are specified as the individual’s place of accommodation under that movement control measure.”.

New regulation 6

5. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 5, the following regulation:

“Travel by individual subject to stay order

6.—(1) An individual to whom an order under regulation 3(1) is given to directly go to and not leave a place of accommodation and who is not at that place when the order is given must, without delay, travel directly to the place of accommodation —

(a)	taking the shortest route and as far as practicable without stopping enroute; and
(b)	using a mode of transport approved by the Director or another specified person, and no other mode, unless he or she is walking.

(2) An individual who is subject to an order made under regulation 3(1) and is ordered by the Director or a Health Officer to undergo an ART, a PCR test or a serology test must, when leaving the individual’s place of accommodation to undergo that test, travel from that place of accommodation to the place that the Director or a Health Officer (as the case may be) orders him or her to go to undergo an ART, a PCR test or a serology test —

(a)	taking the shortest route and as far as practicable without stopping enroute; and
(b)	using a mode of transport approved by the Director or another specified person, and no other mode, unless he or she is walking.

(3) An individual who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 184/2020; S 193/2020; S 263/2020; S 358/2020; S 396/2020; S 472/2020; S 535/2020; S 668/2020; S 303/2021]

Made on 6 October 2021.

NG HOW YUE

Permanent Secretary
(Health Development),
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.

[AG/LEGIS/SL/137/2020/8 Vol. 2]

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