Cloth Masks (Amendment) Regulations, 2022

L.N. 9 of 2022

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Mandatory Use of Medical or

Cloth Masks (Amendment) Regulations, 2022

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 26 and 27(c)

of the Public Health Act, the Minister responsible for public health in

consultation with the Superintendent of Public Health, has made the

following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Mandatory Use of Citation and

Medical or Cloth Mask (Amendment) Regulations, 2022 and these commencement.

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Mandatory Use S.L. 465.48.

of Medical or Cloth Mask Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal regulations".

(2)

These regulations shall come into force on 17th January

2022

Provided that the principal regulations which are being

amended by virtue of these regulations shall be deemed to be still in

force, even after the 17th January 2022, for the purposes of any act,

decision, action or proceedings taken in respect of any breach of those

regulations.

The second proviso to sub-regulation (1) of regulation 2 of Amends

the principal regulations shall be substituted by the following new regulation

the principal

proviso

regulations.

"

Provided further that the following

individuals shall be exempt from the requirement to wear

a face mask

(a) children up to three (3) years of age;

(b) persons with severe cognitive, physical,

mental or respiratory impairments who have difficulties

tolerating a mask as certified by a licensed medical

practitioner, in which case such individuals shall at all

times carry the relevant medical certificate exempting

them from wearing a mask; and

(c) a person who is outside or a maximum of two

(2) persons who are outside together and who are both in

possession of a valid vaccination certificate

Provided that paragraph (c) does not apply in

the case that there applies another standard, regulation or

order which requires the wearing of masks.".

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