COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Amendment Order (No 2) 2021

  • revoked
  • COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Amendment Order (No 2) 2021: revoked, on 30 June 2022, pursuant to clause 3 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Order Revocation Order 2022 (SL 2022/193).

Version as at 30 June 2022

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COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Amendment Order (No 2) 2021

(LI 2021/134)

COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Amendment Order (No 2) 2021: revoked, on 30 June 2022, pursuant to clause 3 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Order Revocation Order 2022 (SL 2022/193).

Note

The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Health.

This order is made by the Minister for COVID-19 Response under section 11 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 in accordance with section 9 of that Act.

Order

1 Title

This order is the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Amendment Order (No 2) 2021.

2 Commencement

This order comes into force at 11.59 pm on 7 June 2021.

3 Principal order

This order amends the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Order 2020.

4 Clause 4 amended (Interpretation)

In clause 4, insert in its appropriate alphabetical order:

health worker means a person who tests or examines an affected person who is required to undergo testing and medical examination under clause 7

5 Schedule 2 amended

(1)

In Schedule 2, item 2.3,—

(a)

after “Health practitioners”, insert “and health workers”; and

(b)

replace “22 April 2021” with “8 June 2021”.

(2)

In Schedule 2, item 3.13,—

(a)

after “Health practitioners”, insert “and health workers”; and

(b)

replace “22 April 2021” with “8 June 2021”.

(3)

In Schedule 2, item 5.2,—

(a)

after “Health practitioners”, insert “and health workers”; and

(b)

replace “22 April 2021” with “8 June 2021”.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of June 2021.

Hon Chris Hipkins,
Minister for COVID-19 Response.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which comes into force at 11.59 pm on 7 June 2021, amends the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Order 2020. The amendments add health workers to the groups of affected persons who are required to undergo testing and medical examination at least once every 7 days.

A failure to comply is an infringement offence under section 26(3) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 (the Act) for which a person is liable to an infringement fee of $300 or a fine not exceeding $1,000.

This order must be approved by a resolution of the House of Representatives before the expiry of the period described in section 16(2) of the Act. If this does not happen, the order is revoked on the expiry of that period.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 4 June 2021.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Health.

Notes
1 General

This is a consolidation of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Amendment Order (No 2) 2021 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.

Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.

3 Editorial and format changes

The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

COVID-19 Public Health Response (Required Testing) Order Revocation Order 2022 (SL 2022/193): clause 3