COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Amendment Order (No 2) 2022

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  • COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Amendment Order (No 2) 2022: revoked, at 11.59 pm on 12 September 2022, pursuant to clause 3(1)(a) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Revocations) Order 2022 (SL 2022/254).

Version as at 12 September 2022

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COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Amendment Order (No 2) 2022

(SL 2022/50)

COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Amendment Order (No 2) 2022: revoked, at 11.59 pm on 12 September 2022, pursuant to clause 3(1)(a) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Revocations) Order 2022 (SL 2022/254).

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 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) Amendment Order (No 2) 2022.

2 Commencement

This order comes into force at 11.59 pm on 2 March 2022.

4 Schedule 1 amended

In Schedule 1,—

(a)

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

(b)

make all necessary consequential amendments.

Schedule New Part 7 inserted into Schedule 1 of COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Order 2020

cl 4

Part 7 Provisions relating to COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Amendment Order (No 2) 2022

17 Part 1D ceases to apply at 11.59 pm on 2 March 2022

(1)

This clause applies to a person who is subject to Part 1D of this order immediately before 11.59 pm on 2 March 2022.

(2)

Part 1D of this order ceases to apply to the person at 11.59 pm on 2 March 2022.

18 Part 1 ceases to apply to certain people in managed isolation or quarantine at 11.59 pm on 4 March 2022

(1)

This clause applies to a person if—

(a)

the person is subject to Part 1 of this order immediately before 11.59 pm on 4 March 2022; but

(b)

Part 1 of this order would not have applied to the person if they had arrived in New Zealand immediately at or after that time.

(2)

Part 1 of this order ceases to apply to the person at 11.59 pm on 4 March 2022 unless the person is in an MIQF immediately before that time and the chief executive requires the person to remain in the MIQF under subclause (3).

(3)

The chief executive—

(a)

may require the person to remain in an MIQF after 11.59 pm on 4 March 2022—

(i)

for the purpose of preventing, and limiting the risk of, the outbreak or spread of COVID-19; and

(ii)

for as long as is reasonably necessary to enable a co-ordinated, orderly, and proportionate departure from the MIQF; but

(b)

must not require the person to remain in an MIQF for longer than—

(i)

48 hours after 11.59 pm on 4 March 2022; or

(ii)

the period of isolation or quarantine that would otherwise have applied to the person under Part 1.

(4)

A person who is required to remain in an MIQF under subclause (3) remains subject to Part 1 of this order until the earlier of the following:

(a)

the time when the chief executive directs that they are no longer required to remain in the MIQF:

(b)

11.59 pm on 6 March 2022.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of March 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 amends the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Order 2020 (the Isolation and Quarantine order). It comes into force at 11.59 pm on 2 March 2022.

This order relates to amendments made to the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Order 2021 by the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Air Border) Amendment Order 2022 (the Air Border amendments).

The Air Border amendments—

(a)

remove the requirement for arrivals from Australia and Tonga (and certain other persons) to self-isolate under Part 1D of the Isolation and Quarantine Order from 11.59 pm on 2 March 2022; and

(b)

remove all remaining requirements for vaccinated overseas arrivals to be isolated or quarantined under Part 1 from 11.59 pm on 4 March 2022.

This order provides for the following transitional provisions for overseas arrivals who are already self-isolating under Part 1D or in managed isolation or quarantine under Part 1 when the Air Border amendments commence.

Transitional provision for people self-isolating under Part 1D

New clause 17 of Schedule 1 of the Isolation and Quarantine Order provides that people who are self-isolating under Part 1D immediately before 11.59 pm on 2 March 2022 are no longer required to self-isolate on and after that time.

Transitional provision for certain people in managed isolation or quarantine

New clause 18 of Schedule 1 of the Isolation and Quarantine Order provides that vaccinated people who are in managed isolation or quarantine under Part 1 immediately before 11.59 pm on 4 March 2022 are no longer required to be isolated and quarantined on or after that time unless required to stay in a managed isolation or quarantine facility (an MIQF) for up to 48 extra hours by the chief executive of the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (the chief executive).

The chief executive may require someone already in an MIQF to remain there for up to 48 extra hours only if it—

  • is reasonably necessary to enable a co-ordinated, orderly, and proportionate departure from the MIQF; and

  • does not extend their period of isolation or quarantine beyond what would otherwise have been required under Part 1 of the Isolation and Quarantine Order.

Approval by resolution required

This order must be approved by resolution of the House of Representatives before the expiry of the period described in section 16(2) of the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020. 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: 2 March 2022.

Notes
1 General

This is a consolidation of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Isolation and Quarantine) Amendment Order (No 2) 2022 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 (Revocations) Order 2022 (SL 2022/254): clause 3(1)(a)