COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020

PART 2

RESTRICTIONS ON MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE

Restrictions on leaving or entering place of residence

4.—(1) This regulation does not apply to an individual who is subject to a movement control measure.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), every individual must stay at or in, and not leave, his or her ordinary place of residence in Singapore.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (3A) and (3B), an individual may leave the individual’s ordinary place of residence only to do directly with all reasonable speed, any or a combination of one or more of the following:

(a)

to work for or with an essential service provider, a specified school or an early childhood development centre;

(b)

to procure any goods or services from an essential service provider, an early childhood development centre or a specified school;

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

(c)

to obtain —

(i)	medical treatment for a suspected COVID‑19 infection at a hospital, medical clinic or any other place, designated by the Director for the treatment of COVID‑19; or
(ii)	medical treatment that is of a pressing nature;

(d)

to engage in any recreational activity alone or with any other individual who lives with the firstmentioned individual on a public path, or in a green or an open space that is managed or maintained by the Government or a public body and is accessible to the general public without payment of any fee;

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

(e)

to transfer temporary custody or care of a child pursuant to any agreement regarding the access rights of a parent of the child, or in discharge of a legal obligation;

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

(f)

to assist any individual who has a physical or mental disability, or is 12 years of age and below, or 60 years of age and above, with his or her daily needs, where there is no other assistance available to the individual;

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

(g)

to report for enlistment or service under the Enlistment Act (Cap. 93);

(h)

to report to any law enforcement officer or to attend at any court in accordance with any warrant, summons or order made under any written law or order of a court;

(i)

to the extent necessary to comply with an order of a court or a direction given in exercise of a power under any written law;

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

(ia)

to attend a funeral or funeral wake;

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

(j)

to seek or render help in an emergency;

(k)

to move to another place of accommodation;

(l)

to leave Singapore;

(m)

to do anything reasonably connected with and for the purposes of the matters in sub‑paragraphs (a) to (l).

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

(3A) Where the individual resides in a specified dormitory or stays in a specified hostel, paragraph (3) applies subject to any measures implemented by the person operating or managing the specified dormitory or the specified hostel under regulation 13 or 13A, as the case may be.

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

(3B) Paragraph (3)(a), (d), (f), (k) and (l) does not apply where the individual is febrile or exhibits any specified symptom.

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

(4) An individual must not permit any other individual to enter his or her ordinary place of residence for any reason other than —

(a)	to enable an essential service provider to supply goods or services; [S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]
(b)	for any purpose connected with paragraph (3)(e), (i) or (k); [S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]
(c)	to receive any assistance mentioned in paragraph (3)(f); or
(d)	to receive help in an emergency mentioned in paragraph (3)(j).

Alternative place of residence

5. If an individual is unable to stay at his or her ordinary place of residence because to do so poses a serious risk of transmission of COVID‑19 to the individual or to other individuals staying there, an enforcement officer may direct the individual to stay at another designated place for a specified period or until the risk of transmission has abated, and that designated place is treated as the individual’s place of residence for that period for the purposes of regulations 4, 6 and 7.

Prohibition on social gatherings

6. Unless otherwise permitted under these Regulations, a person must not meet another individual not living in the same place of residence for any social purpose.

Individuals to keep safe distance

7.—(1) Where an individual leaves his or her place of residence for one of the permitted purposes in regulation 4(3), the individual must keep a distance of at least one metre from any other individual in any public place or common property of any subdivided building, except in —

(a)	[Deleted by S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]
(b)	any motor vehicle or other mode of conveyance; or
(c)	any premises used in connection with the provision of public transport.

(2) An individual must not, in any public place other than a public place mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) —

(a)	sit on a seat that is not fixed to the floor and that is less than one metre away from another seated individual in the public place; [S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]
(b)	sit on a fixed seat in the public place that is demarcated as not to be occupied; or [S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]
(c)	stand in a queue less than one metre away from another individual in the queue in the public place. [S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

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

Restriction on use of sports or recreation facilities

8. An individual must not use any sports or recreation facilities —

(a)	in the common property of a subdivided building which is the individual’s ordinary place of residence; or
(b)	in any public place, except at a green or an open space that is managed or maintained by the Government or a public body and is accessible to the general public without payment of any fee. [S 262/2020 wef 10/04/2020]

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