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NO. 14 OF 2020


(c) to require the doing of one or both of the following at a specified time, in a specified manner or to a specified extent, in relation to any premises or facility used to carry out any business, undertaking or work:
(i) close the premises or facility;
(ii) limit access to the premises or facility;
(d) to restrict the time, manner or extent for the carrying out of any business, undertaking or work, including prescribing restrictions on the maximum number of people, opening hours or facilities provided, for the carrying on of the business, undertaking or work;
(e) to prohibit or restrict the conduct of or participation in any event or gathering in any premises;
(f) to disapply any prohibition or restriction in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) to the extent specified in the control order or, where it is impracticable in the circumstances of the particular case for the Minister to make or amend any control order to this end, that is prescribed on the Internet website of the Government at https://covid.gobusiness.gov.sg/essentialservices/.

(3) A control order remains in force until its expiry, its revocation or the date subsection (7) ceases to be in force, whichever occurs first.

(4) A control order and any amendment thereof must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.

(5) If a resolution is passed by Parliament annulling a control order or any part of it, or any amendment thereof, as from a specified date, the control order or that part or amendment of it ceases to have effect as from that date, but without affecting anything previously done under that control order or part.

(6) The Minister must, in addition, cause to be published every control order, and any amendment thereof, so as to bring it to the notice of all persons who may be affected by the control order.

(7) A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes a control order, commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction—