4Declaration of circumstances

4 Declaration of circumstances

(1)  For the purposes of Part 6A of the COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 , persons are to be taken to be members of a family if –

(a) the persons have entered the State during the same 14-day period; and

(b) each person –

(i) is a relative of another person in the group; or

(ii) entered the State as part of a group of persons who were travelling together as a group and who were permitted by an authorised officer to reside in quarantine in the same room in quarantine premises.

(2)  For the purposes of Part 6A of the COVID-19 Disease Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 , one member of a family who is a quarantined person on a day may be required to pay an amount of money under that Part in respect of all members of that family who are also quarantined persons on that day, if the person is the first member of the group who is recorded, in relation to a particular period of 14 days or less, in the registration details kept, for the purposes of the quarantine premises, by the staff responsible for receiving guests at the premises.

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.