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Directions from Deputy Chief Health Officer (Communicable Disease) in accordance with emergency powers arising from declared state of emergency - Stay at Home Directions (No. 4).

Country/Territory
Australia
Territorial subdivision
Victoria
Document type
Miscellaneous
Date
2020
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
General
Keyword
Public health Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Use restrictions
Geographical area
Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific
Entry into force notes
From 13 April to 11 May 2020.
Abstract

The purpose of these directions, under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, is to address the serious public health risk posed to Victoria by Novel Coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV). These directions require everyone in Victoria to limit their interactions with others by: a) restricting the circumstances in which they may leave the premises where they ordinarily reside; and b) placing restrictions on gatherings. These directions must be read together with the Restricted Activity Directions (No. 3), the Isolation (Diagnosis) Direction (No. 2), the Hospital Visitor Directions (No. 2) and the Care Facilities Directions (No. 2). These directions replace the Stay at Home Directions (No. 3). For the purposes of these directions, the stay at home period is the period beginning at midnight on 13 April 2020 and ending at midnight on 11 May 2020. In particular, the directions establish that a person who is in Victoria during the stay at home period must not leave the premises where the person ordinarily resides, other than for one or more of the reasons specified in: a) clause 6 (necessary goods or services); b) clause 7 (care or other compassionate reasons); c) clause 8 (work and education); d) clause 9 (exercise); e) clause 10 (other specified reasons).

Full text
English
Website
www.dhhs.vic.gov.au