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 1 June 2020 (both dates inclusive).

[S 357/2020 wef 01/05/2020]

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);

“contractor”, “occupier” and “principal” have the meanings given by section 4(1) of the Workplace Safety and Health Act (Cap. 354A);

[S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

“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);

“employee” and “employer” have the meanings given by section 6 of the Workplace Safety and Health Act;

[S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

“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 domestic business policies to provide certain goods or services, for the period or from the date stated in the permit; [S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

“essential service worker”, in relation to an essential service provider —

(a)	means an employee of the essential service provider; and
(b)	where the essential service provider is a principal, includes a contractor, a subcontractor or an employee of a contractor or subcontractor of the essential service provider, where the contractor, subcontractor or employee (as the case may be) works under the direction of the essential service provider as to the manner in which the work is carried out; [S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

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

“foreign employee” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Foreign Employee Dormitories Act 2015;

[S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

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

“mask” includes any paper, textile or plastic covering designed or made to be worn over the nose and mouth to provide the wearer protection against infections or air pollution;

[S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]

“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 or 17 of the Infectious Diseases Act; [S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

[Deleted by S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

“permitted premises” means any premises where an essential service provider ordinarily carries on any business, undertaking or work, or any other premises at which the person is permitted by the Minister charged with the responsibility for domestic business policies to provide certain goods or services, but excludes any vehicle or aircraft;

[S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

[S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]

“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;

[Deleted by S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

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

“room” means any area within a building that is fully enclosed on all sides;

[S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]

“specified dormitory” means any boarding premises that provides accommodation to 7 or more foreign employees and that is not a specified hostel;

[S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

“specified hostel” means any premises providing accommodation for guests, on land approved for use as a backpackers’ hostel, boarding house or guest house under the Planning Act (Cap. 232);

[S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

[S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]

“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;

[S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

[S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]

“symptomatic case” means an individual who is febrile or shows any specified symptom.

[S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]

[Deleted by S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

(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, save where provided expressly; [S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]
(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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