COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Sporting Events and Activities — Control Order) (Amendment No. 9) Regulations 2021

No. S 618

COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020

(ACT 14 OF 2020)

COVID-19 (Temporary Measures)
(Sporting Events and Activities —
Control Order) (Amendment No. 9)
Regulations 2021

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:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Sporting Events and Activities — Control Order) (Amendment No. 9) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 19 August 2021.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2(1) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Sporting Events and Activities — Control Order) Regulations 2021 (G.N. No. S 277/2021) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the word “Major” in paragraph (d) of the definition of “Control Order”.

Amendment of regulation 5

3. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting sub‑paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (2) and substituting the following sub‑paragraphs:

“(a)

where the sports venue is a restricted place within the meaning of the Infectious Diseases (Mass Gathering Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019) Regulations 2021 (G.N. No. S 273/2021), and every spectator who is present or may be allowed to be present within the spectators’ area of the sports venue has a cleared status during the crowd management period of the sporting event — the lower of the following:

(i)

1,000;

(ii)

the number of individuals which the spectators’ area of the sports venue may accommodate if all the following are complied with:

(A)	the segregation requirement in regulation 4(1);
(B)	the general physical distancing requirement;
(C)	the spectator capacity requirement;
(D)	regulations 10B(1)(k), 12 and 13E(1)(d) of, and the First Schedule (where applicable) to, the Main Control Order; or

(b)

in any other case — the lower of the following:

(i)

50;

(ii)

the number of individuals which the spectators’ area of the sports venue may accommodate if all the following are complied with:

(A)	the segregation requirement in regulation 4(1);
(B)	the general physical distancing requirement;
(C)	the spectator capacity requirement;
(D)	regulations 10B(1)(k), 12 and 13E(1)(d) of, and the First Schedule (where applicable) to, the Main Control Order.”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraph (3) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(3) The major participation sporting event capacity requirement for a sports venue where a major participation sporting event takes place or is to take place means the requirement that limits the number of athletes, contestants and other individuals participating, or likely to be participating, in any sporting activity played or engaged in at the sporting event at any one time during the crowd management period of the sporting event to —

(a)	where every athlete, contestant or other individual participating, or likely to be participating, in any of those sporting activities has a cleared status during the crowd management period of the sporting event — 1,000; or
(b)	in any other case — 50.”.

Amendment of regulation 7

4. Regulation 7(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting sub‑paragraphs (a) and (b) and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:

“(a)

to refuse entry to the sports venue by any individual —

(i)	whom the occupier of the sports venue knows or has reason to believe is subject to a movement control measure; or
(ii)	who refuses to comply with any contact tracing measure established or applied by the occupier of the sports venue in order to comply with the contact tracing requirement; and”.

Amendment of regulation 14

5. Regulation 14(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “alone, or in a cohort” in sub‑paragraph (f)(i) and substituting the words “in the spectators’ area, either alone or in a cohort”.

Amendment of regulation 19

6. Regulation 19(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the words “higher number for any requirement in regulation”, “4(1)(a),”.

[G.N. Nos. S 307/2021; S 326/2021; S 369/2021; S 377/2021; S 511/2021; S 527/2021; S 539/2021; S 587/2021]

Made on 18 August 2021.

NG HOW YUE

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

[AG/LEGIS/SL/65C/2020/23 Vol. 2]

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

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