Singapore legislation

Clause 19

of Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Bill

Clause 19

Amendment of section 21

In the principal Act, in section 21 —

(a)

in the section heading, replace “occupation, trade or business” with “business, undertaking or work”;

(b)

in subsection (1)(a), replace “carrier” with “an at‑risk individual”;

(c)

in subsections (1) and (2), replace “occupation, trade or business” wherever it appears with “business, undertaking or work”;

(d)

in subsection (1)(a), delete “or” at the end;

(e)

in subsection (1), after paragraph (a), insert —“(aa)any class of persons mentioned in paragraph (a);

(ab)any person who is suspected to be a case or an at‑risk individual of an infectious disease and is carrying on or may carry on any business, undertaking or work;”;

(f)

in subsection (1)(b), replace the comma at the end with “; or”;

(g)

in subsection (1), after paragraph (b), insert —“(ba)any class of persons mentioned in paragraph (b),”;

(h)

in subsection (2), after “person” wherever it appears, insert “or class of persons”;

(i)

in subsections (3) and (4), after “to that person”, insert “or a class of persons to which that person belongs”;

(j)

in subsection (3)(a), replace “an occupation, trade or business” with “a business, undertaking or work”;

(k)

in subsection (3)(b), after “person”, insert “to the Government”; and

(l)

in subsection (5), after “A person”, insert “(including a person in a class of persons)”.

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