COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Quarantine Debt) Order 2020


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COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Quarantine Debt) Order 2020

I make the following order under section 25B(1) of the COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 .

7 October 2020

D. HINE

Responsible Person

1.   Short title

This order may be cited as the COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Quarantine Debt) Order 2020 .

2.   Commencement

This order takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Interpretation

In this order –
authorised officer has the same meaning as in the Emergency Management Act 2006 .

3.   Declaration of requirement to pay amounts

(1)  For the purposes of section 25B(1) of the COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 , each person –
(a) who is or was a quarantined person on or after 31 July 2020; and
(b) who is a member of the class of persons specified in subclause (2)  –
is declared to be required under Part 6A of that Act to pay to the Crown an amount of money in relation to each day, that is a day on or after 31 July 2020, in which the person temporarily resided, in accordance with a quarantine direction, in quarantine premises.
(2)  For the purposes of subclause (1) , the class of persons is each person who began to be a quarantined person on or after 31 July 2020 otherwise than because –
(a) the person is or was required under a quarantine direction to temporarily reside in quarantine premises only because the person displayed symptoms of the disease on the person’s arrival into the State; or
(b) the person –
(i) is or was required under a quarantine direction to temporarily reside in quarantine premises and was so resident while the person was awaiting an approval or authorisation, subsequently provided in relation to the person under a quarantine direction, authorising the person to not temporarily reside in quarantine premises under a quarantine direction; and
(ii) had provided to an authorised officer, or a person acting on behalf of the Crown, the information necessary to grant the approval or authorisation and that information was provided within a period that is, having regard to the reason why the person has entered the State, a reasonable period before arriving in the State; or
(c) the person –
(i) is or was required under a quarantine direction to temporarily reside in quarantine premises while awaiting a determination, subsequently provided in relation to the person, that the person was not required under a quarantine direction to temporarily reside in quarantine premises; and
(ii) had provided to an authorised officer, or a person acting on behalf of the Crown, the information necessary to make the determination and that information was provided within a period that is, having regard to the reason why the person has entered the State, a reasonable period before arriving in the State.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 14 October 2020

This order is administered in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.