PART 1 | Citation and commencement |
| 1. These Regulations are the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Reopening — Control Order) Regulations 2022 and come into operation on 15 March 2022. |
2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —| “approved antigen rapid test” means an antigen rapid test performed in Singapore in relation to an individual using any of the test products specified in the Schedule to the Infectious Diseases (Antigen Rapid Test Providers) Regulations 2021 (G.N. No. S 267/2021), the purpose of which is to test for the presence of SARS‑CoV‑2 in that individual; |
| “approved supervisor” means the person having the charge, management or control of the place where the nuptial event takes place or is to take place, either on the person’s own account or as agent of another person, during that period; |
| “approving authority” means the Senior Director (Operations), Ministry of Trade and Industry; |
| “ARC Regulations” means the Infectious Diseases (COVID‑19 Access Restrictions and Clearance) Regulations 2021 (G.N. No. S 273/2021); |
“at work” includes any of the following:| (a) | for the time being working; | | (b) | on a break when working; | | (c) | customarily working; |
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| “athlete” means an individual participating in a sporting activity (whether or not in training for competition or otherwise) and where the sporting activity is engaged in or played in or as part of a sporting competition, includes a contestant in the sporting competition; |
“authorised cohort” means a cohort as follows:| (a) | a cohort consisting of not more than 5 individuals; | | (b) | a solemnisation special cohort where a solemnisation of a marriage is taking place; | | (c) | a wedding special cohort where a wedding is taking place; |
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| “authorised service” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 254/2020); |
| “building” includes part of a building; |
“business” includes —| (a) | a venture or concern in trade or commerce, whether or not conducted on a regular, repetitive or continuous basis; and | | (b) | any business, whether or not carried on for profit, |
| and the fact that an unincorporated association provides services to its members does not prevent those services from being services provided in the course of business; |
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“business event” means a meeting, an exhibition or a display, or a series of meetings, exhibitions or displays or a combination thereof, arranged or held in the course of business —| (a) | to discuss or negotiate matters relating to trade, commerce or finance, professional practice or matters, health, arts, science, technology, industry, economics, industrial relations, security, international affairs, the environment or any other cause or matter, whether or not of a similar kind; | | (b) | to temporarily exhibit or display goods of any kind for the purposes of sale or supply to a consumer or otherwise; or | | (c) | to promote the trading of goods or the provision of services to a consumer or otherwise, |
| to which individuals are admitted on payment of a fee or charge, on the basis of their membership of an organisation, or after making a contribution, or admitted free of charge, to attend the meeting or to enter or remain at the venue where a business event takes place, or is to take place; and in the case of a business event comprising a series of meetings, exhibitions or displays or a combination thereof, includes each meeting, exhibition or display and any opening ceremony or closing ceremony connected with that series; |
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“caregiver” means an individual who is providing care to —| (a) | a child below 6 years of age; or | | (b) | to another individual who needs healthcare or assistance in activities of daily living; |
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“celebrant”, in relation to a marriage, means any of the following individuals authorised under written law to solemnise the marriage in Singapore:| (a) | a person issued a licence to solemnise marriages under section 8 of the Women’s Charter 1961; | | (b) | the Registrar of Marriages or an Assistant Registrar of Marriages, appointed under section 26 of the Women’s Charter 1961; | | (c) | a person specified in section 95(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Administration of Muslim Law Act 1966; |
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| “cleared status” has the meaning given by the ARC Regulations 2021; |
| “cohort” means a group of individuals with a common intention to meet in person for the same purpose or similar purposes, the composition of which does not change in relation to that purpose or those purposes except by way of reduction in numbers; |
“combat sport entertainment” means any combat sport that involves 2 or more individuals —| (a) | doing any or a combination of any of the following according to a pre‑arranged or choreographed (but not improvised) sequence of movements:| (i) | grapple with, punch, kick or throw each other (including light contact); | | (ii) | strike or hit each other, whether or not with a weapon; and |
| | (b) | for the primary objective of entertainment or displaying the combat sport (even if scores are kept); |
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| “common property” has the meaning given by section 3(1) of the Land Titles (Strata) Act 1967; |
| “conduct” includes organise; |
| “contact tracing”, for any place, means procedures and controls relating to the place that enable or facilitate the tracing of any individual who is or was in that place and is likely to be or has been exposed to the risk of infection from COVID‑19; |
“contestant”, in relation to a sporting competition, means an individual —| (a) | who competes, or has been selected to compete, as a representative of Singapore in an international sporting event, or a series of international sporting events, either as an individual or as a member of a national team; | | (b) | who competes in an international sporting event held in Singapore; or | | (c) | who is included in a group of persons formed for the purpose of the selection of persons to compete, as representatives of Singapore, in an international sporting event or a series of international sporting events, either as individuals or as members of a national team; |
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| “COVIDSAFE capacity”, for any place, has the meaning given by regulation 22; |
| “crowd management period” has the meaning given by regulation 12; |
“crowd management requirement” means —| (a) | a Level 1 crowd management requirement; or | | (b) | a Level 2 crowd management requirement; |
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“customer”, for an authorised service, includes the following:| (a) | a prospective customer; | | (b) | in relation to a management corporation constituted for a strata title plan or a managing agent appointed by a management corporation, includes any subsidiary proprietor which makes up the management corporation, any mortgagee in possession, lessee or occupier of a lot comprised in the strata title plan, and any invitee of such a subsidiary proprietor; | | (c) | in relation to the operator of a specified dormitory, includes a resident of that dormitory; | | (d) | in relation to a business event that is a trade show, includes a prospective customer who is also a participant at the trade show; | | (e) | a visitor to a place where and when the authorised service is provided; |
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“defined event” means any of the following events, even if it is an authorised service that is provided:| (a) | a business event; | | (b) | a live performance; | | (c) | a sporting event; | | (d) | a religious gathering; | | (e) | a media conference, |
| but excludes a private social event; |
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| “Director” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Infectious Diseases Act 1976; |
| “early childhood development centre” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017; |
“education business” means providing, in the course of any business and whether involving the provision of care or otherwise —| (a) | lessons or coaching in, or for participation in, a cultural, recreational activity or sporting activity, but not a sporting event; | | (b) | private tutoring; | | (c) | full-time education for the purpose of preparing students for any examination that leads to a qualification awarded by any person other than the person which provides the full‑time education or that entitles the students to be admitted to an education institution; | | (d) | a course of instruction, training or teaching leading to the award of a diploma, degree, certificate or other qualification; | | (e) | post‑secondary education and training which is directed towards the development or upgrading of skills and knowledge in relation to work in commerce or industry; | | (f) | a post‑secondary education program that leads to the development of knowledge and skills that are not specific to any particular occupation; or | | (g) | services and facilities for the organising and conduct of —| (i) | examinations or assessments for professional or vocational training, testing, certification or accreditation; or | | (ii) | tests, examinations or other methods of assessing the level of proficiency, aptitude, skill, knowledge or understanding of an individual in any subject matter;| Includes appointing of examiners, obtaining question papers and keeping them in safe custody, ensuring the identity of candidates undertaking the test, examination or assessment, timely supply of question or test papers to those candidates, proper invigilation, safe custody of answer papers, tabulation of marks obtained by those candidates from the test, examination or assessment, and publishing the results. |
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| “elite sportsperson” means an individual who is on a development pathway recognised by a public body promoting sporting activities to prepare sportspersons so that the individual may derive a living from competing in that sporting activity or take part in a national or an international sporting event in Singapore or elsewhere; |
| “employee” and “employer” have the meanings given by section 6 of the Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006; |
“enhanced cleared status”, for an individual, means that —| (a) | he or she has a cleared status (general) that is current under the ARC Regulations and, within the period of 24 hours before the end of the nuptial event concerned —| (i) | he or she undergoes an approved test or approved tests or a supervised self‑administered antigen rapid test; and | | (ii) | his or her approved test result is treated under those Regulations either as negative for SARS‑CoV‑2 or an atypical finding for SARS‑CoV‑2, or the result from the supervised self‑administered antigen rapid test shows no presence of SARS‑CoV‑2 in that individual; or |
| | (b) | he or she is an uncleared junior and, within the period of 24 hours before the end of the nuptial event —| (i) | he or she undergoes an approved test or approved tests or a supervised self‑administered antigen rapid test; and | | (ii) | his or her approved test result is treated under the ARC Regulations either as negative for SARS‑CoV‑2 or an atypical finding for SARS‑CoV‑2, or the result from the supervised self‑administered antigen rapid test shows no presence of SARS‑CoV‑2 in that uncleared junior; |
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“enhanced entry control”, for any place that is a restricted place, means a requirement to establish and maintain, during the restricted period of the restricted place (within the meaning of the ARC Regulations), all reasonably practicable procedures and protocols that ensure that only an individual who —| (a) | has a cleared status; or | | (b) | is excepted by regulation 13 of the ARC Regulations from having a cleared status to enter the restricted place, |
| enters or remains or is allowed to enter or remain within the place during that restricted period; |
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| “entry control requirement” has the meaning given by regulation 21; |
| “event” includes a meeting or gathering in person of individuals for any purpose; |
| “face shield” means any film made from plastic or other transparent material designed or made to be worn like a visor, covering from the wearer’s forehead to below the chin area and wrapping around the sides of the wearer’s face, to provide the wearer protection against smoke, dust or liquid spatter; |
| “funeral event” means a funeral, funeral wake or funeral procession held during or before the burial or cremation of the deceased; |
“funerary memorial event” means a ritual, an observance or a ceremony held —| (a) | after the funeral event for any deceased; and | | (b) | for the sole purpose of commemorating or honouring any deceased according to any religious practice or the tenets of any religion or religious denomination or belief, |
| but does not include such a ritual, an observance or a ceremony for a public holiday; |
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“in the course of employment” includes any of the following:| (a) | in the course of being at work as a self‑employed person; | | (b) | in the course of undertaking training in a sporting activity by an elite sportsperson; |
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| “interviewee” means an individual who is being or is to be interviewed by an interviewer at a media conference, and includes an individual acting as a moderator or chair of proceedings at the media conference; |
| “Level 1 crowd management requirement” has the meaning given by regulation 23(1); |
| “Level 2 crowd management requirement” has the meaning given by regulation 23(2); |
“live performance” means any, or a combination of any, performance as follows by performers in person in a live performance venue in the presence of an audience in the same live performance venue:| (a) | a performance (including an improvisation) of a dramatic work, including such a performance given with the use of puppets; | | (b) | a performance (including an improvisation) of a musical work (whether vocal or instrumental) and includes a concert or a series of music‑focused performances at a single place; | | (c) | the play-reading, poetry-reading or recital, or other reading, recitation or delivery of a literary work, or the recitation or delivery of an improvised literary work; | | (d) | a performance of a dance (including a weapon dance); | | (e) | a performance of a circus act or a variety act or any similar presentation or show; | | (f) | any performance of legerdemain or magic; | | (g) | a performance of an expression of folklore; | | (h) | a live art performance, |
| but does not include any of the following: |
| (i) | any lecture, talk, address, debate or discussion; | | (j) | any reading, recitation or delivery of a literary work for the purpose of promoting the sale of the literary work; | | (k) | any exhibition of animals or a display involving wholly or substantially animals performing; | | (l) | any ceremony, rite, sermon, or religious service or celebration lawfully conducted by priests or ministers of religion in premises consecrated or dedicated generally or specifically for the conduct of such ceremony, rite, sermon, or religious service or celebration; | | (m) | any exhibition or display of gymnastics, a martial art, any combat sport entertainment or sporting competition; | | (n) | any activity described in paragraphs (a) to (h) engaged in during the conduct of any lesson, coaching or instruction provided by a permitted enterprise carrying on an education business; |
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| “management corporation” has the meaning given by section 3(1) of the Land Titles (Strata) Act 1967; |
| “mask” means any paper, plastic or textile covering solely designed or made to be worn over the nose and mouth to provide the wearer protection against infections or air pollution, but excludes a face shield; |
“media conference” means a meeting or gathering in person that —| (a) | is attended mainly by recognised reporters, or intended mainly for recognised reporters to attend; and | | (b) | is organised for the primary purpose of distributing information to, and answering questions from, 2 or more providers of radio, television, newspaper and other mass media services so as to obtain publicity for a particular matter; |
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“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); or | | (b) | an order under section 15 or 17 of the Infectious Diseases Act 1976 in relation to COVID‑19; |
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“nuptial event” means —| (a) | a solemnisation of a marriage; or | | (b) | a wedding; |
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“Part 3 private social event” means any of the following:| (a) | a nuptial event; | | (b) | a funeral event; | | (c) | a funerary memorial event; |
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| “participation sporting event” has the meaning given by the Third Schedule; |
“performer”, in a live performance, means —| (a) | an actor, a model or a dancer; | | (b) | a singer, musician or member of an orchestra; | | (c) | an acrobat or a stunt performer; or | | (d) | any other individual who contributes in person to the sounds, movements or visual elements (or any combination thereof) of the performance, |
| and includes the conductor if the performance includes a live performance of a musical work, whether vocal or instrumental; |
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“performing activity” means a live performance, and includes any of the following activity engaged in other than by a performer in a live performance:| (a) | singing or dancing; | | (b) | playing a musical instrument; | | (c) | public speaking; |
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“permitted enterprise” means —| (a) | the Government or any public body; or | | (b) | a person who provides an authorised service; |
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“place” means any of the following in Singapore:| (a) | a building; | | (b) | an open space or open area (whether indoor or outdoor); | | (c) | an area of open water or a waterway; | | (d) | a road or path; | | (e) | a conveyance like a vessel or train but not an aircraft or a vehicle, |
| and includes any part of a place, such as a room; |
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“place of residence” means any of the following in Singapore:| (a) | any building that is used, constructed or adapted on a parcel of land solely for use for human habitation as a single dwelling on the land, and includes any garden or yard appurtenant to that building and within that same parcel of land; | | (b) | an apartment or a unit, or a flat or lot, in a subdivided building that is used, constructed or adapted as a complete and separate unit for the purpose of human habitation; | | (c) | a room in a specified accommodation or specified hostel for the accommodation of one or more guests or residents of the specified accommodation or the specified hostel; | | (d) | a room comprised in other boarding premises for the accommodation of one or more boarders or lodgers at those premises, but not a room with shared facilities such as a communal living room, bathroom, laundry or kitchen; |
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“private social event” means any type of private social function at which a group of individuals come together to associate or interact with each other for social purposes rather than remaining seated or stationary for the duration of the function, and excludes —| (a) | a live performance; | | (b) | a sporting event; | | (c) | a business event; | | (d) | a religious gathering; and | | (e) | a media conference; |
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| “public body” means a body corporate established by a public Act for the purposes of a public function; |
“public place” means any place to which members of the public have access as of right or by virtue of express or implied permission, whether or not on payment of a fee and whether or not access to the place may be restricted at particular times or for particular purposes, and includes —| (a) | a part of any place that the occupier thereof allows members of the public to enter, but only while the part of the place is ordinarily open to members of the public; and | | (b) | a place in which an individual is at work unless that is the individual’s ordinary place of residence;| A public path as defined by section 2(1) of the Active Mobility Act 2017 is a public place. |
| A passenger train used in operating a rapid transit system is a public place. |
| A private art gallery of an association which is hired out for a commemorative event attended by a section of the public not limited to association members is a public place when it is open for that event. |
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“public space” means —| (a) | a public place; or | | (b) | any common property of a subdivided building;| A void deck of residential block of flats in a public housing estate is a public space. |
| A basement car park or tennis court of a condominium is a public space. |
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| “public speaking” means giving or engaging in any talk, address or sermon by an individual in person; |
| “relevant retail mall” has the meaning given by the Third Schedule; |
“religious gathering” means a gathering of individuals that is for the purpose of conducting, and allowing worshippers to engage in, a ceremony or rite or an observance or a worship, sermon or service, based wholly on a religious belief, opinion or affiliation; but not any of the following:| (a) | a nuptial event, funeral event or funerary memorial event involving a religious service; | | (b) | a gathering of individuals to provide or receive (or both) lessons or teaching based wholly on a religious belief, religious opinion or religious affiliation, or a course of instruction or training to become a member of a religious order or in the duties of a minister of religion; | | (c) | a business event (or part thereof); |
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| “religious service” means a ceremony or rite, or an observance or a worship, sermon or service, based wholly on a religious belief, religious opinion or religious affiliation; |
| “restricted period”, for a place or an event, means the time prescribed in the Second Schedule to the ARC Regulations for that kind of place, premises or event; |
| “room” means any area within a building that is fully enclosed on all sides; |
“solemnisation of a marriage” means a ceremony at which a single marriage is solemnised according to proceedings prescribed by written law and without virtual participation, except that where —| (a) | those proceedings take place concurrently with or in a manner indistinguishable from an organised gathering made in connection with the celebration of a marriage; or | | (b) | those proceedings at any premises are followed immediately or without a break by an organised gathering made in connection with the celebration of the marriage at the same premises (whether or not in the same place), |
| the gathering of individuals at the proceedings in paragraph (a) or (b) must be treated instead as a wedding for the purposes of these Regulations; |
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“solemnisation special cohort”, for a solemnisation of a marriage, means a gathering not exceeding 20 individuals attending the solemnisation, the composition of which —| (a) | includes the parties to the marriage and not more than 2 individuals required by written law to witness or attest the doing of anything by those parties at the solemnisation of the marriage; | | (b) | may include uncleared juniors; and | | (c) | does not change during the solemnisation of the marriage; |
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“special authorised service” means an authorised service that consists of conducting or providing a place for the conduct of any of the following:| (a) | a defined event; | | (b) | a Part 3 private social event; |
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| “specified accommodation”, “specified dormitory”, “specified hostel” and “specified school” have the meanings given by regulation 2(1) of the COVID‑19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020; |
| “spectator sporting event” has the meaning given by the Third Schedule; |
| “sport” includes any dance other than a Chinese lion dance or dragon dance; |
“sporting activity” means any sport, game, martial art, combat sport entertainment, fitness activity or recreation activity involving primarily the exercise of physical prowess or dexterity, physical strength, physical stamina or mental stamina and to the extent that —| (a) | human beings are the only contestants or participants who engage in or play the sport, game, martial art, combat sport entertainment or activity; or | | (b) | it is a sport or game or an activity in which human beings compete or participate in —| (i) | by riding animals or exercising other skills in relation to animals; | | (ii) | by driving, piloting, crewing any vehicle, vessel, aircraft or other form of transport; | | (iii) | by competing with natural obstacles or natural forces, or by overcoming them; or | | (iv) | by using a computer on a computer monitor, television screen, mobile device or similar medium with electronically recorded data installed in to support an interactive computer game or computer‑generated images, |
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| but does not include any of the following: |
| (c) | any horse racing, harness racing, pony racing and greyhound racing; | | (d) | any group fitness activity or group recreation activity that is not organised in the course of any business; | | (e) | a game of chance, or a game that is presented as involving an element of chance; |
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| “sporting competition” means a sporting event where at least one of the participants is competing for a monetary prize or other reward, and includes competitive ballroom dancing; |
“sporting event” means any of the following held in Singapore:| (a) | a participation sporting event; | | (b) | a spectator sporting event, |
| whether or not also a sporting competition, and includes an international sporting event to the extent that part of it is held in Singapore; |
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| “subdivided building” means a multi-storey building consisting of 2 or more premises that is used or intended to be used as a complete and separate unit for the purpose of habitation or business or for any other purpose; |
“supervised self-administered antigen rapid test” means —| (a) | the individual removing a respiratory specimen from the lining of his or her oral or nasal passage under the supervision of an approved supervisor for the purpose of subjecting the respiratory specimen to an approved antigen rapid test under paragraph (b); | | (b) | the individual then subjecting, under the supervision of an approved supervisor, the respiratory specimen removed under paragraph (a) to an approved antigen rapid test for the purpose of testing for the presence of SARS‑CoV‑2 in that individual; and | | (c) | the individual or approved supervisor then ascertaining the results of the approved antigen rapid test and recording the results, even if uncertain or invalid, |
| and an individual is treated as undergoing or having undergone an approved test in the same manner as under the ARC Regulations; |
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“trade show” means a type of business event consisting of a meeting or series of meetings arranged or held in the course of business —| (a) | to temporarily exhibit or display goods of any kind for the purposes of sale or supply ordinarily other than to a consumer; or | | (b) | to promote the trading of goods or the provision of services ordinarily other than to a consumer; |
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| “uncleared junior” means a child who is below 13 years of age and without a cleared status; |
| “unmasked”, in relation to an individual, means to be not wearing a mask and includes an individual wearing a face shield in lieu of a mask; |
“unmasked activity” means —| (a) | consuming any food, drink or medication; | | (b) | receiving any personal appearance service or personal care service that requires taking off, or not wearing, a mask in order to receive the service; | | (c) | engaging in any sporting activity or physical recreation activity unmasked; or | | (d) | engaging in any other activity allowed by these Regulations to be engaged in unmasked; |
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“unmasking concession for public speaking”, for an individual who engages or is to engage in public speaking at a Part 3 private social event or a defined event without wearing a mask, means the following requirements when he or she is engaged in public speaking:| (a) | the individual must either be standing or seated generally in a fixed position; | | (b) | the individual must at all times be at least one metre away from any other individual who is outside of the individual’s authorised cohort; | | (c) | there are not more than 10 individuals (inclusive of the individual concerned) engaged in public speaking at the same time at the same event without wearing a mask; |
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“visitor”, in relation to a place where an authorised service is provided, means an individual who has a lawful reason to enter or remain in the place but is —| (a) | not a permitted enterprise worker of that permitted enterprise providing the authorised service; and | | (b) | not a customer of the permitted enterprise; |
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| “wear”, in relation to any provision in these Regulations requiring a mask to be worn, means to wear a mask over and covering the wearer’s nose and mouth, with the mask touching the wearer’s nose, cheeks and chin; |
| “wedding” means an organised gathering of individuals in connection with the celebration of a single marriage, being a marriage in respect of which no organised gathering has earlier taken place in connection with the celebration of that marriage; |
“wedding special cohort”, for a wedding, means a gathering not exceeding 20 individuals attending the wedding, the composition of which —| (a) | includes the bride and groom of the marriage to which the wedding relates; | | (b) | may include not more than 5 uncleared juniors; and | | (c) | does not change during the wedding; |
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| “wind musical instrument” includes a brass musical instrument. |
(2) In these Regulations, an individual may be regarded as a member of the same household of another individual if the firstmentioned individual is any of the following ordinarily living in the same place of residence as the other individual:| (a) | a spouse of that other individual; | | (b) | a parent, child or sibling of that other individual; | | (c) | an individual with whom that other individual has an agreement or arrangement, whether oral or in writing and whether express or implied, to live in the same place of residence. |
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| (3) In these Regulations, a reference to a parent, grandparent, child, grandchild or sibling in relation to an individual includes a reference to a step‑parent, stepgrandparent, stepchild, stepgrandchild or stepsibling or a parent, grandparent, child, grandchild or sibling, by adoption, of that individual. |
(4) Where a permitted enterprise is a sole proprietor or a partnership, a corporation or an unincorporated association other than a partnership, a reference in these Regulations to a permitted enterprise worker of the permitted enterprise includes a reference to each of the following individuals when at work in any place as if he or she were a permitted enterprise worker of the permitted enterprise:| (a) | the sole proprietor and every partner of the partnership, whether or not he or she is also a visitor; | | (b) | every director, partner, chief executive, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the corporation, whether or not he or she is also a visitor or permitted enterprise worker; | | (c) | every president, the secretary, or any member of the committee of the unincorporated association, whether or not he or she is also a visitor or permitted enterprise worker. |
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| (5) For the purposes of these Regulations, an individual is treated as undergoing or having undergone an approved test in the same manner as under the ARC Regulations. |
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