1Short titleThis regulation may be cited as the Public Health (Further Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—COVID-19) Regulation 2021.2Further extension of period of declared public health emergency—Act, s 323(1)This section applies to the declared public health emergency—

(a)declared by the Minister on 29 January 2020 under section 319(2) of the Act; and

(b)extended, under section 323(1) of the Act, by the Public Health (Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)) Regulation 2020 made on 5 February 2020; and

(c)further extended, under section 323(1) of the Act, by each regulation stated in schedule 1 made on the date stated opposite the regulation.

(2)The period of the declared public health emergency is further extended, under section 323(1) of the Act, by 90 days.Notes—

1The period of the declared public health emergency is now extended until the end of the day on 29 June 2021.

2Under section 323(2) of the Act, this regulation commences on the day it is made whether or not it is notified on that day.

3Under section 323(3)(b) of the Act, this regulation expires at the end of the extended period unless it is sooner repealed or it expires under section 324(3) of the Act.

Schedule 1Regulations that further extended declared public health emergencysection 2(1)(c)Public Health (Further Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)) Regulation 20206 February 2020Public Health (Further Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)) Regulation (No. 2) 202018 February 2020Public Health (Further Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—COVID-19) Regulation (No. 3) 202018 May 2020Public Health (Further Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—COVID-19) Regulation (No. 4) 202013 August 2020Public Health (Further Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—COVID-19) Regulation (No. 5) 20202 October 2020Public Health (Further Extension of Declared Public Health Emergency—COVID-19) Regulation (No. 6) 202017 December 2020