Public Health Amendment (COVID-19 Border Control) Regulation 2020 (NSW)

New South Wales

Public Health Amendment (COVID-19 Border

Control) Regulation 2020

under the

Public Health Act 2010

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

Regulation under the Public Health Act 2010.

BRAD HAZZARD, MP

Minister for Health and Medical Research

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to allow for the issue of penalty notices for an offence against section 10 of the Public Health Act 2010 involving a contravention of a Ministerial direction under the Public Health

(COVID-19 Border Control) Order 2020. The Ministerial direction relates to the provision of information
to help enforcement officers decide whether persons entering New South Wales have been in Victoria in the
last 14 days and, if they have, whether they are authorised to enter New South Wales.

This Regulation is made under the Public Health Act 2010, including sections 118 and 134 (the general regulation-making power).

Public Health Amendment (COVID-19 Border Control) Regulation 2020 [NSW]

Public Health Amendment (COVID-19 Border Control) Regulation

2020

under the

Public Health Act 2010

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Public Health Amendment (COVID-19 Border Control)

Regulation 2020.

2      Commencement

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

3 Amendment of Public Health Regulation 2012

Schedule 4 Penalty notice offences

Insert before the matter relating to section 10, for another offence occurring between

26 March 2020 and 25 March 2021—

Section 10, for an offence against clause 6 of	$4,000
the Public Health (COVID-19 Border
Control) Order 2020