Prevention and Control of Disease (Vaccine Pass) Regulation
Explanatory Note
L.N. 14 of 2022
Paragraph 1
B181
Explanatory Note
The object of this Regulation is to introduce a mechanism for restricting a person who has not been vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from entering or remaining on certain premises or boarding or remaining on certain public transport carriers.
2. Part 1 prescribes the commencement date and contains the definitions used in the Regulation.
3. Part 2 empowers the Secretary for Food and Health (Secretary) to issue a direction (vaccine pass direction) in relation to certain premises or public transport carriers. Specifically, that Part—
- (a) empowers the Secretary to specify what conditions must be met in relation to a particular type of vaccine before a person who has been administered with that type of vaccine is regarded for the purposes of the vaccine pass direction as having been vaccinated in the specified manner for entering, boarding or remaining on certain premises or public transport carriers (section 4);
- (b) imposes certain requirements on any person entering, boarding or remaining on certain premises or public transport carriers (section 5);
- (c) provides for certain offences in relation to the failure to comply with the requirements under subparagraph (b) (sections 5(4) and 7(2)); and
- (d) confers certain powers on authorized officers and the persons in charge of certain premises or public transport carriers to enforce a vaccine pass direction (sections 8 and 9).
