COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020

No. S 254

COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020

(ACT 14 OF 2020)

COVID-19 (Temporary Measures)
(Control Order) Regulations 2020

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 34(1) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020, the Minister for Health makes the following Regulations:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and period in force

1.—(1) These Regulations are the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations are in force for the period between 7 April 2020 and 4 May 2020 (both dates inclusive).

Definitions

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“boarding premises” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Foreign Employee Dormitories Act 2015 (Act 3 of 2015);

“common property” has the meaning given by section 3(1) of the Land Titles (Strata) Act (Cap. 158);

“designated place” means any premises owned by the Government or a public body, or private premises, that the Minister designates as an alternative place of accommodation;

“Director” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137);

“early childhood development centre” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017 (Act 19 of 2017);

“enforcement officer” means a person appointed under section 35(1) of the Act;

“essential service” means —

(a)	any provision of goods or services by the Government or any public body in the exercise of its public functions; or
(b)	any provision of goods or services specified on the prescribed website;

“essential service provider” means —

(a)	the Government or any public body;
(b)	a person who provides any essential service; or
(c)	a person who is given permission by the Minister charged with the responsibility for trade and industry to provide certain goods or services;

“event” includes a meeting or gathering of any nature;

“foreign employee” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act (Cap. 91A);

“management corporation” has the meaning given by section 3(1) of the Land Titles (Strata) Act;

“movement control measure”, in relation to an individual, means a requirement for the individual not to leave a place of accommodation because of —

(a)	an order made under regulation 3(1) of the Infectious Diseases (COVID-19 — Stay Orders) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 182/2020);
(b)	regulation 3(2) of the Infectious Diseases (COVID‑19 — Stay Orders) Regulations 2020; or
(c)	an order under section 15 of the Infectious Diseases Act;

“open-air stadium” means any stadium managed or operated by the Singapore Sports Council that is not enclosed on all sides;

“permitted premises” means any premises where an essential service provider ordinarily carries on any business, undertaking or work;

“prescribed website” means the Internet website of the Government at https://covid.gobusiness.gov.sg/essentialservices/;

“public body” means a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function;

“public park” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Parks and Trees Act (Cap. 216);

“public path” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Active Mobility Act 2017 (Act 3 of 2017);

“specified dormitory” means any boarding premises that provides accommodation to 7 or more foreign employees;

“specified school” means —

(a)

a school in receipt of grant-in-aid under the Education (Grant‑in‑Aid) Regulations (Cap. 87, Rg 3);

(b)

a school specified in paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Compulsory Education (Exemption) Order (Cap. 51, O 1);

(c)

a school specified in Part II of the Schedule to the Education Endowment and Savings Schemes (Edusave Pupils Fund) Regulations (Cap. 87A, Rg 1); or

(d)

any of the following universities:

(i)	National University of Singapore;
(ii)	Nanyang Technological University;
(iii)	Singapore Institute of Technology;
(iv)	Singapore Management University;
(v)	Singapore University of Social Sciences;
(vi)	Singapore University of Technology and Design;

“specified symptom” means any of the following symptoms:

(a)	coughing;
(b)	sneezing;
(c)	breathlessness;
(d)	a runny nose;

“subdivided building” has the meaning given by section 3(1) of the Land Titles (Strata) Act;

“worker” —

(a)	in relation to an employer — means an employee of an employer; or
(b)	in relation to a principal — includes an employee of a contractor or subcontractor of the principal, where the contractor, subcontractor or employee (as the case may be) works under the direction of the principal as to the manner in which the work is carried out.

(2) Where an individual is not ordinarily resident in Singapore, the individual’s ordinary place of residence in Singapore is, for the purposes of these Regulations, the place of accommodation at which the individual was staying immediately before 7 April 2020.

Application

3. These Regulations do not apply in relation to —

(a)	the Government or any public body;
(b)	a specified school; or
(c)	any early childhood development centre licensed under the Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017.

Made on 7 April 2020.

NG HOW YUE

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

[AG/LEGIS/SL/65C/2020/2 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 34(4) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020).

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