No. S 773
COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020
(ACT 14 OF 2020)
COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures)
(Control Order) (Amendment No. 19)
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) (Control Order) (Amendment No. 19) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 13 October 2021.
Amendment of regulation 2
2.  Regulation 2(1) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 254/2020) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended —
(a)by deleting the definition of “community eating place”;
(b)by deleting paragraph (b) of the definition of “dining‑in activity cohort” and substituting the following paragraph:
(b)that consists of —
(i)for a retail food and drinks establishment —
(A)2 individuals each with a cleared status;
(B)2 uncleared juniors all from the same household; or
(C)2 individuals in total, consisting of one uncleared junior and one other individual with a cleared status; or
(ii)for a place at which a retail liquor business is for the time being carried on — 2 individuals each with a cleared status;”; and
(c)by deleting the definition of “enhanced entry control” and substituting the following definition:
“ “enhanced entry control” means as follows:
(a)for any room or place where a nuptial event takes place or is to take place — a requirement to establish and maintain, during the restricted period of the nuptial event (within the meaning of the Infectious Diseases (Mass Gathering Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019) Regulations 2021), all reasonably practicable procedures and protocols that ensure that only the following enter or remain within the room or place during that restricted period:
(i)a guest with a cleared status;
(ii)a guest who is an uncleared junior, unless there are also present in the room or place during that restricted period, guests who are uncleared juniors and not below the limit in regulation 7A(2A)(ab)(ii) or 8(1)(ha), whichever being applicable;
(b)for any permitted premises that is a restricted place within the meaning of the Infectious Diseases (Mass Gathering Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019) Regulations 2021 — a requirement under those Regulations, other Control Order Regulations or these Regulations to establish and maintain, all reasonably practicable procedures and protocols that ensure that an individual who —
(i)does not have a cleared status; and
(ii)is not expressly allowed under regulation 13 of those Regulations to enter and remain in such a restricted place,
does not enter or remain within the restricted place during the restricted period applicable to that restricted place under the Infectious Diseases (Mass Gathering Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019) Regulations 2021;”.
Amendment of regulation 7A
3.  Regulation 7A(2A) of the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “that is not a community eating place” in sub‑paragraph (b)(ii)(A).
Amendment of regulation 10A
4.  Regulation 10A of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (3), the following paragraph:
(3A)  Every relevant occupier of permitted premises mentioned in paragraph (1) must take all reasonable steps to comply with the enhanced entry control with respect to every customer or visitor to the permitted premises.”.
Amendment of regulation 10B
5.  Regulation 10B(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after sub‑paragraph (a), the following sub‑paragraph:
(b)where the permitted premises is, at any time it is open for business, a restricted place within the meaning of the Infectious Diseases (Mass Gathering Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019) Regulations 2021, take all reasonable steps to comply with the enhanced entry control with respect to every customer or visitor to the permitted premises;”.
Amendment of Part 3 of First Schedule
6.  Part 3 of the First Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended —
(a)by deleting the words “the retail food and drinks establishment is not a community eating place and” in paragraph 1(1);
(b)by deleting the words “which is not a community eating place,” in paragraph 1(2); and
(c)by deleting sub‑paragraph (a) of paragraph 2 and substituting the following sub‑paragraph:
(a)any customer or visitor without a cleared status does not enter or remain within the permitted premises to consume any food or drink in those premises unless the customer or visitor is an uncleared junior;”.
[G.N. Nos. S 261/2020; S 262/2020; S 273/2020; S 274/2020; S 319/2020; S 357/2020; S 359/2020; S 428/2020; S 473/2020; S 542/2020; S 669/2020; S 698/2020; S 721/2020; S 782/2020; S 816/2020; S 868/2020; S 900/2020; S 928/2020; S 983/2020; S 1070/2020; S 16/2021; S 40/2021; S 88/2021; S 238/2021; S 275/2021; S 299/2021; S 309/2021; S 329/2021; S 364/2021; S 371/2021; S 379/2021; S 508/2021; S 524/2021; S 536/2021; S 584/2021; S 621/2021; S 680/2021; S 715/2021]
Made on 12 October 2021.
NG HOW YUE
Permanent Secretary
(Health Development),
Ministry of Health,
Singapore.
[AG/LEGIS/SL/65C/2020/2 Vol. 9]
(To be presented to Parliament under section 34(4) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020).