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Rh PART 1 PRELIMINARY Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Workplace Safety and Health (COVID-19 Safe Workplace) Regulations 2021 and come into operation on 1 January 2022.

Scope of Regulations

2.—(1) These Regulations do not apply to or in relation to any place of residence of any of the following:
 * (a) a self-employed person, an employer or a principal when and at which he or she is carrying on his or her trade, business, profession or undertaking;
 * (b) an employee of an employer when and at which the employee performs work in connection with his or her employer’s trade, business, profession or undertaking;
 * (c) a worker of a principal when and at which the worker performs work in connection with his or her principal’s trade, business, profession or undertaking.

(2) These Regulations (except Part 3) do not apply to or in relation to any of the following whose work premises are defined premises:
 * (a) any employer, and any employee of an employer;
 * (b) any principal, and any worker of a principal;
 * (c) any self-employed person.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), defined premises are any of the following:
 * (a) a hospital or clinic, or other healthcare institution or facility for the reception, lodging, treatment or care of individuals requiring medical treatment;
 * (b) an early childhood development centre specified in a licence granted under the Early Childhood Development Centres Act 2017 to operate the early childhood development centre;