Health Services Amendment (Quarantine Services) Regulation 2020 (NSW)

New South Wales

Health Services Amendment (Quarantine

Services) Regulation 2020

under the

Health Services Act 1997

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Health Services Act 1997.

BRAD HAZZARD, MP

Minister for Health and Medical Research

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to amend the Health Services Regulation 2018 to prescribe the provision of quarantine services under a public health order made under section 7 of the Public Health Act 2010 as a

health service for the purposes of the Health Services Act 1997.

This Regulation is made under the Health Services Act 1997, including section 140 (the general regulation-making power).

Health Services Amendment (Quarantine Services) Regulation 2020 [NSW]

Health Services Amendment (Quarantine Services) Regulation

2020

under the

Health Services Act 1997

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Health Services Amendment (Quarantine Services) Regulation

2020.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Health Services Regulation 2018

Clause 29

Insert after clause 28—

29      Quarantine services prescribed to be health service

(1)	For the purposes of paragraph (f) of the definition of health service in the Dictionary to the Act, a quarantine service is a health service.
(2)	In this clause—

quarantine service means the provision of accommodation and

associated services to persons subject to a quarantine period at a quarantine facility or medical facility under an order made under section 7 of the Public Health Act 2010.