COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021

  • revoked
  • COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021: revoked, at 11.59 pm on 26 September 2022, by clause 3(2) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Revocations) Order 2022 (SL 2022/254).
9A Director-General may authorise affected persons not fully vaccinated or who have not received booster dose to carry out certain work

(1)

This clause applies despite anything in clause 7 or 8.

(2)

The Director-General may, on the application of a relevant PCBU (the applicant), authorise an affected person who is not fully vaccinated or who has not received a booster dose to carry out certain work.

(3)

The Director-General may give an authorisation in respect of an affected person only if—

(a)

the person has received at least 1 dose of any vaccine for COVID-19; and

(b)

the Director-General is satisfied, taking into account the certain work to be carried out by the person, that the receipt of that vaccine adequately prevents, or limits the risk of,—

(i)

an outbreak of COVID-19; or

(ii)

the spread of COVID-19.

(4)

The Director-General may impose 1 or more conditions on an authorisation (for example, that the affected person meet the vaccination requirements set out in Schedule 3 or 4 within a specified time frame).

(5)

The Director-General must give the applicant written notice of the outcome of an application and, if an authorisation has been given, of any conditions imposed on the authorisation.

(6)

The applicant must give a copy of a written notice received under subclause (5) to the affected person who is the subject of the application.

Clause 9A: inserted, at 11.59 pm on 17 October 2021, by clause 7 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order (No 2) 2021 (LI 2021/315).

Clause 9A heading: amended, at 11.59 pm on 23 January 2022, by clause 11 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order 2022 (SL 2022/4).

Clause 9A(2): amended, at 11.59 pm on 23 January 2022, by clause 11 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order 2022 (SL 2022/4).

Clause 9A(3)(a): amended, at 11.59 pm on 15 May 2022, by clause 6 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order (No 4) 2022 (SL 2022/131).

Clause 9A(3)(a): amended, at 11.59 pm on 1 December 2021, by clause 5 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order (No 5) 2021 (SL 2021/384).

Clause 9A(4): amended, at 11.59 pm on 23 January 2022, by clause 11 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Amendment Order 2022 (SL 2022/4).