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(h) exempting any person from any requirement under this Part, whether in whole or in part; and

(i) providing for any other matter that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this part.

Consequential amendment to Property Tax Act

33. Section 23(1) of the Property Tax Act is amended by deleting the words “15 members" and substituting the words “30 members".

PART 7
COVID-19 CONTROL ORDERS

Control order to prevent spread of COVID-19

34.—(1) The Minister may make regulations (called in this part a control order) for the purpose of preventing, protecting against, delaying or otherwise controlling the incidence or transmission of COVID-19 in Singapore if the Minister is satisfied that—

(a) the incidence and transmission of COVID-19 in the community in Singapore constitutes a serious threat to public health; and

(b) a control order is necessary or expedient to supplement the Infectious Diseases Act and any other written law.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a control order may make provision as follows:

(a) to require people or certain people to stay at or in, and not leave, a specified place (whether or not a place of accommodation);

(b) to restrict movement of or contact between people, including prohibiting or limiting group activities or other activities of people within the specified place in paragraph (a), restricting the use of any facilities at that place and limiting movement to and from that place, whether by time or location;