COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine and Maritime Border) Amendment Order 2022

2022/16

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COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine and Maritime Border) Amendment Order 2022

This order is made by the Minister for COVID-19 Response under sections 11 and 15(1) 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 (Isolation and Quarantine and Maritime Border) Amendment Order 2022.

2 Commencement

This order comes into force at 11.59 pm on 15 February 2022.

Part 1 Amendments to COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Order 2020

4 Clause 10 amended (Period of isolation or quarantine)

(1)

In clause 10(1)(a), replace “10th” with “7th”.

(2)

Replace clause 10(5) with:

(5)

The chief executive of MBIE may authorise the person’s period of isolation or quarantine to end up to 7 days later than it would otherwise end under this clause.

5 Schedule 1 amended

In Schedule 1,—

(a)

insert the Part set out in Schedule 1 of this order as the last Part; and

(b)

make all necessary consequential amendments.

Part 2 Amendments to COVID-19 Public Health Response (Maritime Border) Order (No 2) 2020

7 Clause 15 amended (Form and content of notice of arrival)

In clause 15(2)(d)(i), replace “10 days” with “7 days”.

8 Clause 17 amended (General requirement to remain in isolation or quarantine)

In clause 17(1), (3), (4), and (4B)(a), replace “10 days” with “7 days”.

9 Clause 17A amended (Requirement to remain in isolation or quarantine when new person boards ship)

In clause 17A(2) and (3), replace “10 days” with “7 days”.

10 Clause 19 amended (Requirements for disembarking)

In clause 19(1)(b) and (2)(b), replace “10 days” with “7 days”.

11 Clause 20 amended (Certain arrivals not required to complete period of isolation or quarantine to disembark)

In clause 20(4)(b)(ii), replace “10 days” with “7 days”.

12 Schedule 1 amended

In Schedule 1,—

(a)

insert the Part set out in Schedule 2 of this order as the last Part; and

(b)

make all necessary consequential amendments.

Schedule 1 New Part 5 inserted into Schedule 1 of COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Order 2020

cl 5

Part 5 Provision relating to COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine and Maritime Border) Amendment Order 2022

13 Allowing for co-ordinated, orderly, and proportionate departure from MIQF

(1)

The chief executive of MBIE may, for the purpose of preventing, and limiting the risk of, the outbreak or spread of COVID-19, require a person who is in an MIQF immediately before 11.59 pm on 15 February 2022 to remain in an MIQF after their period of isolation and quarantine would otherwise end under clause 10 of this order, for as long as is reasonably necessary to enable a co-ordinated, orderly, and proportionate departure from that MIQF.

(2)

Subclause (1) applies to a person for whichever is the shorter of the following periods:

(a)

until the chief executive of MBIE directs that the person is no longer required to remain in an MIQF:

(b)

the period that ends at 11.59 pm on 18 February 2022.

(3)

This clause ceases to apply at 11.59 pm on 18 February 2022.

Schedule 2 New Part 2 inserted into Schedule 1 of COVID-19 Public Health Response (Maritime Border) Order (No 2) 2020

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Part 2 Provision relating to COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine and Maritime Border) Amendment Order 2022

2 Allowing for coordinated, orderly, and proportionate departure from isolation

(1)

A medical officer of health or a health protection officer may, for the purpose of preventing, and limiting the risk of, the outbreak or spread of COVID-19, require a person who is in isolation on a ship immediately before 11.59 pm on 15 February 2022 to remain in isolation on the ship after their period of isolation and quarantine would otherwise end under clause 17 of this order, for as long as is reasonably necessary to enable a co-ordinated, orderly, and proportionate departure from isolation on that ship.

(2)

This clause ceases to apply at 11.59 pm on 18 February 2022.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of February 2022.

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 comes into force at 11.59 pm on 15 February 2022.

Part 1 amends the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Order 2020. The amendments reduce, from 10 days to 7 days, the period of isolation and quarantine that applies to persons in a managed isolation or quarantine facility.

Part 2 amends the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Maritime Border) Order (No 2) 2020 to reduce the period of isolation or quarantine for those on board a ship from 10 days to 7 days.

This order must be approved by a resolution of the House of Representatives before the end of the period described in section 16(2) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020. If that does not happen, the order is revoked at the end of that period.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.

Date of notification in Gazette: 15 February 2022.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Health.