Covid-19: Phase 2 Regulations for Movement Control Order Amended
06 April 2020
The Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within Infected Local Areas) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (‘Phase 2 Regulations’) were gazetted on 31 March 2020 and applies for the period 1 to 14 April 2020.
One of the significant differences from the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2020 (‘Phase 1 Regulations’) which lapsed on 31 March 2020, is the reduction in the number of ‘essential services’ from 22 to 10 under the Phase 2 Regulations. The 10 essential services permitted under the Phase 2 Regulations are as follows –
- Food
- Water
- Energy
- Communications and internet
- Security and defence
- Solid waste and public cleansing management and sewerage
- Healthcare and medical including dietary supplement
- Banking and finance
- E-commerce
- Logistics confined to the provision of essential services
- Transportation by land, water or air
- Port, dock and airport services and undertakings, including stevedoring, lighterage, cargo handling, and pilotage, and storing or bulking of commodities
- Production, refining, storage, supply and distribution of fuel and lubricants
- Hotels and accommodations
- Any services or works determined by the Minister as important or critical to public health or safety
The additions to the ‘
essential services’ under the Phase 2 Regulations are welcomed. With these additions, the only ‘
essential services’ under the Phase 1 Regulations which have been omitted from the Phase 2 Regulations are fire, postal, prison, radio communications (including broadcasting and television), immigration, customs and wildlife.
Our Alerts on the Phase 1 Regulations and the Phase 2 Regulations are available
here and
here.