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No. S 472

Infectious Diseases Act

(CHAPTER 137)

Infectious Diseases
(COVID‑19 — Stay Orders)
(Amendment No. 6) Regulations 2020

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. 6) Regulations 2020 and come into operation on 17 June 2020 at 11.59 p.m.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Infectious Diseases (COVID‑19 — Stay Orders) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 182/2020) is amended by deleting the full‑stop at the end of the definition of “specified person” and substituting a semi‑colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:

“ “traveller” means an individual described in paragraph (a) of the definition of “at‑risk individual”.”.

Amendment of regulation 3

3. Regulation 3 of the Infectious Diseases (COVID‑19 — Stay Orders) Regulations 2020 is amended by deleting paragraph (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(1) A specified person may, for the purpose of preventing the spread of COVID‑19, order any at‑risk individual to go to a place of accommodation specified in the order or in writing by a specified person and not leave the place of accommodation —

(a)

if the individual is a traveller who is, on or after 17 June 2020 at 11.59 p.m., required under section 55(1)(f) of the Act to undergo, and undergoes, a test to determine whether he or she is infected with COVID‑19 — for the period starting upon the issue of the order and ending on the day the individual is notified of his or her test result (not including a test result that is uncertain) or the 14th day after the issue of the order, whichever is later; or

(b)

in any other case — for the period specified in the order, starting upon the issue of the order and ending not later than the 14th day after the issue of the order.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 184/2020; S 193/2020; S 263/2020; S 358/2020; S 396/2020]

Made on 16 June 2020.

NG HOW YUE

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

[AG/LEGIS/SL/137/2020/8 Vol. 1]