Restrictions on leaving or entering place of residence
4.—(1) Nothing in this Part applies to authorise an individual who is subject to a movement control measure to contravene or not comply with a requirement by or under any other written law to not leave his or her place of accommodation.
[S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), every individual must stay at or in, and not leave, his or her ordinary place of residence in Singapore.
[S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]
[S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
(3) Subject to paragraph (3A), an individual may leave the individual’s ordinary place of residence only to do any or a combination of one or more of the following:
(a)
to work as a permitted enterprise or permitted enterprise worker, or for or with a permitted enterprise, to provide an authorised service of the permitted enterprise, or to work at a specified school or an early childhood development centre;
Illustrations
Driving as a taxi driver.
Volunteering as a nurse at a free medical clinic for destitute individuals.
[S 428/2020 wef 02/06/2020]
(b)
to procure an authorised service from a permitted enterprise, an early childhood development centre or a specified school;
Illustrations
To buy groceries from a market stall or supermarket.
To take a bus, taxi or employer-arranged transport to go to work as a permitted enterprise worker.
To see a doctor for a medical condition.
[S 428/2020 wef 02/06/2020]
(ca)
[Deleted by S 329/2021 wef 16/05/2021]
(c)
to bring the individual’s child daily to and from the individual’s place of residence to the place of residence of any of the child’s grandparents for the grandparent to provide informal childcare to the child;
[S 329/2021 wef 16/05/2021]
(cb)
[Deleted by S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
(cc)
[Deleted by S 428/2020 wef 02/06/2020]
(d)
to walk, run, cycle or engage in other exercise (whether or not of a similar kind) or in social or recreational activity at any of the following places:
(i)
on a length of path that is a public path but is not a green or an open space;
(ii)
in a green or an open space that is managed or maintained by or on behalf of the Government or a public body and is accessible to the general public without payment of any fee;
(iii)
in or on any part of the common property of a subdivided building, or any private open space external to a building for private outdoor purposes ancillary to the use of the building whether or not it is common property;
(iv)
any place or facility provided by a permitted enterprise as part of an authorised service for that purpose;
[S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
(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 provide to another individual assistance in mobility, self-care, self-management and other activities of daily living, or healthcare and other care and support, because —
(i)
of the other individual’s age (at least 60 years of age) or infirmity or disability (whether physical or intellectual); and
(ii)
such assistance, care or support in overcoming the other individual’s limitations is otherwise not available to that other individual;
[S 364/2021 wef 01/06/2021]
(fa)
[Deleted by S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
(g)
to visit another place of residence other than for the purpose in sub-paragraph (c);
[S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
[S 329/2021 wef 16/05/2021]
(h)
to comply with —
(i)
an order of a court;
(ii)
a direction given by or on behalf of a public officer or a public body in exercise of a power under any written law; or
(iii)
a requirement under an Act to appear in person;
Illustrations
To report for enlistment or operationally ready national service under the Enlistment Act (Cap. 93).
To attend at any court in accordance with any warrant or summons.
[S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
(i)
to escape harm or the risk of harm, including harm relating to family violence or violence of another individual living in or at the individual’s ordinary place of residence;
[S 364/2021 wef 01/06/2021]
(ia)
to attend —
(i)
a solemnization of a marriage, or a religious ceremony for a marriage which has been contracted and solemnized, under the Administration of Muslim Law Act (Cap. 3) or the Women’s Charter (Cap. 353) or a wedding in connection with the celebration of such a marriage; or
[S 669/2020 wef 04/08/2020]
[S 508/2021 wef 12/07/2021]
(ii)
a funeral event as a mourner or in other similar capacity or a funerary memorial event;
[S 428/2020 wef 02/06/2020]
[S 698/2020 wef 19/08/2020]
(j)
to seek or render help in an emergency;
(k)
to move from the individual’s ordinary place of residence to stay in another accommodation in substitution of the firstmentioned place of residence as the individual’s ordinary place of residence;
[S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]
(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]
[S 273/2020 wef 15/04/2020]
[S 473/2020 wef 19/06/2020]
(3A) Where the individual’s ordinary place of residence is in any specified dormitory, specified accommodation or specified hostel, paragraph (3) applies subject to any measures implemented by the operator of the specified dormitory, or the person managing and maintaining the specified accommodation or specified hostel (as the case may be), in accordance with the requirements in regulation 13, the First Schedule and the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Foreign Employee Dormitories — Control Order) Regulations 2020 (G.N. No. S 781/2020).
[S 428/2020 wef 02/06/2020]
[S 782/2020 wef 14/09/2020]
(3B) [Deleted by S 428/2020 wef 02/06/2020]
(3C) [Deleted by S 428/2020 wef 02/06/2020]
(4) An individual must not permit to enter or remain in his or her ordinary place of residence on any single day, in total —
(a)
more than 2 individuals not ordinarily resident in that place; or
[S 309/2021 wef 08/05/2021]
[S 329/2021 wef 16/05/2021]
[S 371/2021 wef 14/06/2021]
[S 536/2021 wef 22/07/2021]
[S 584/2021 wef 10/08/2021]
[S 715/2021 wef 27/09/2021]
(b)
more than the following number if higher than sub-paragraph (a), and the following circumstances apply:
(i)
if the individual’s ordinary place of residence is used for the purpose of solemnizing a marriage — the number of individuals not ordinarily resident in that place attending the solemnization of the marriage and who are within the maximum permissible group size allowed under regulation 7A(2) during the solemnization of the marriage;
(ii)
if the individual is the grandparent of a child subject to informal childcare arrangements provided at the individual’s ordinary place of residence — the number of children allowed under paragraph (3)(c) only for those informal childcare arrangements to be given;
[S 329/2021 wef 16/05/2021]
(iii)
if the individual’s ordinary place of residence is used for the purpose of a funeral event — the number of individuals not ordinarily resident in that place who attend the funeral event and are within the maximum permissible group size allowed under these Regulations during the funeral event;
[S 275/2021 wef 24/04/2021]
[S 329/2021 wef 16/05/2021]
(iv)
a reasonable number of permitted enterprise workers of a permitted enterprise to provide, to the individual or any other individual who has the same ordinary place of residence, assistance in mobility, self-care, self-management and other activities of daily living, or healthcare and other care and support, because —
(A)
the individual or other individual is at least 60 years of age or is infirm or disabled (whether physical or intellectual); and
(B)
such assistance, care or support in overcoming that individual’s or other individual’s limitations is otherwise not available to the individual or other individual;
[S 364/2021 wef 01/06/2021]
(v)
a reasonable number of individuals for any purpose connected with paragraph (3)(h) or to receive help in an emergency;
[S 329/2021 wef 16/05/2021]
[S 364/2021 wef 01/06/2021]
(vi)
the number of children involved to transfer temporary custody or care of them pursuant to any agreement regarding the access rights of a parent of the child, or in discharge of a legal obligation;
[S 364/2021 wef 01/06/2021]
(vii)
a reasonable number of permitted enterprise workers of a permitted enterprise for the purpose of another individual moving to the place as the place where the individual will ordinarily reside.
[S 364/2021 wef 01/06/2021]
(5) However, paragraph (4) does not authorise an individual whose ordinary place of residence is in a specified dormitory or specified hostel to permit to enter or remain in his or her ordinary place of residence, another individual who has a different ordinary place of residence except —
(a)
to enable a permitted enterprise to provide an authorised service to the individual or any other individual who has the same ordinary place of residence;
(b)
for any purpose connected with paragraph (3)(h); or