Infectious Diseases Act 1976 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Control of Infectious Diseases Within Singapore
15. Isolation of certain persons
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The Director-General of Health may order the following persons to be detained and isolated in a hospital or other place for such period of time and subject to such conditions as the Director-General of Health may determine:
Director-General
“Director-General” means the Director‑General of Public Health appointed under section 3(1) of the Environmental Public Health Act 1987;
any person who is a case or an at-risk individual of an infectious disease;
any class of persons mentioned in paragraph (a);
any person who is suspected to be a case or an at-risk individual of an infectious disease.
The Director-General of Health may order the following persons to remain and to be isolated and (if necessary) be treated, in the person’s own residence for such period of time as may be necessary for the protection of the public and subject to such conditions as the Director-General of Health may consider necessary for this purpose:
any person who is a case or an at-risk individual of an infectious disease;
any class of persons mentioned in paragraph (a);
any person who is suspected to be a case or an at-risk individual of an infectious disease;
any person who has recently recovered from or been treated for an infectious disease.
[Deleted by Act 13 of 2024 wef 09/04/2024]
Any person (including any person in a class of persons) against whom an order under subsection (1) or (2) is made shall be guilty of an offence if the person —
without reasonable excuse, fails to proceed to the place in which the person is to be isolated within the time specified in the order;
without reasonable excuse, fails to proceed to the place in which the person is to be isolated as soon as possible, in a case where there is no time specified in the order;
without the permission of the Director-General of Health, leaves or attempts to leave the place in which the person is being isolated; or
without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with any condition to which the person is subject.
Subsection (4)(a) or (aa) does not apply where the person is already at the place he or she is ordered to be isolated in under subsection (1) or (2).