Prevention and Control of Disease (Compulsory Testing for Certain Persons) Regulation
5. Part 4 empowers a prescribed officer to, if the officer has reason to believe that a person has failed to comply with a requirement under a direction issued by a specified medical practitioner, or a notice published by the Secretary for Food and Health in the Gazette, to undergo a test for the coronavirus disease 2019, by written order require the person to comply with the requirement. A failure to comply with a requirement under the order without lawful authority or reasonable excuse is a criminal offence punishable by fine and imprisonment.
6. Part 5 confers enforcement powers on prescribed officers and prescribes offences for obstructing prescribed officers or specified medical practitioners etc.
7. Part 6 provides for miscellaneous matters such as the postponement of deadlines or dates for inclement weather, the specification of form of documents and the expiry of the Regulation.
8. The Schedule provides for matters relating to fixed penalty for certain offences under the Regulation.
