COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 (SA)

South Australia COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 An Act to make various temporary modifications of the law of the State in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and for other purposes.

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Interpretation 4 Application of Act 5 Interaction with other Acts 6 Expiry of Act Part 2—General modifications 8 Provisions applying to residential tenancies 9 Provisions applying to residential parks 10 Provisions applying to supported residential facilities 10A Provisions relating to certain community visitors 16 Requirements relating to documents 18 Service 19 Regulations 20 Savings and transitional matters 21 Disallowance of regulations made under Act 22 Immunity from liability etc 23 Further provisions in Schedules Schedule 2—Temporary modification of particular State laws Part 1—Emergency Management Act 2004 1 Modification of Emergency Management Act 2004 Part 2AA—Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia) Act 2010 2AA Modification of Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (South Australia) Act 2010 Part 2A—National Electricity (South Australia) Act 1996 2A Modification of National Electricity (South Australia) Act 1996 Legislative history

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: Part 1—Preliminary 1—Short title This Act may be cited as the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020. 2—Commencement (1) Subject to this section, this Act comes into operation on the day on which it is assented to by the Governor. (2) Sections 7 to 9 (inclusive) will be taken to have come into operation on 30 March 2020. 3—Interpretation In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears— instrument includes any document that affects legal rights or obligations; relevant declaration means a declaration under Part 4 Division 3 of the Emergency Management Act 2004 or a declaration under section 87 of the South Australian Public Health Act 2011. 4—Application of Act It is the intention of the Parliament that this Act apply within the State and outside the State to the full extent of the extraterritorial legislative capacity of the Parliament. 5—Interaction with other Acts Except as is provided in this Act, this Act is in addition to and does not limit, or derogate from, the provisions of any other Act or law. 6—Expiry of Act (1) The Minister— (a) may, by notice in the Gazette, fix a day, or days, on which particular provisions of— (i) Part 2 (other than sections 8, 9 and 10); or (iii) Schedule 2, will expire; and (b) must, by notice in the Gazette, fix a day on which— (i) all provisions of Part 2 (other than section 7, section 10A(5) and (6) and section 20); and (iii) all provisions of Schedule 2, will expire (if they have not previously expired in accordance with this section); and (c) may, by notice in the Gazette, fix a day on which this Act will finally expire. (2) The day fixed by the Minister for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) must be— (a) 28 days after the day on which all relevant declarations relating to the outbreak of the human disease named COVID‑19 within South Australia have ceased; or (b) 1 December 2021, whichever is the earlier. (3) For the avoidance of doubt (and without derogating from section 16 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1915), the expiry of a provision of this Act under this section does not affect the validity or operation of anything done in accordance with the provision before that expiry. Note— This means, for example, that a contract executed in accordance with any modified requirements under section 16 would remain validly executed even after the expiry of that section.