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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-09-08" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Coronavirus</name>
      <text id="2020090868fe82f7cff148d1a0000744">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Coronavirus</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="5419" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-09-08">
            <name>Coronavirus</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="2020090868fe82f7cff148d1a0000745">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5419">the Hon. F. PANGALLO </by>(30 June 2020).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
          </portfolio>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2020-09-08">
            <name>Coronavirus</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="2020090868fe82f7cff148d1a0000746">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020090868fe82f7cff148d1a0000747">
          <inserted>Section 28 of the <term>Emergency Management Act</term><term>2004</term> (EM act) deals with failure to comply with a section 25 direction; such direction may be given for a person to undergo an examination, including diagnostic procedure. An individual fine if reported (through the courts) for failure to comply with a direction under the EM act, is $20,000 for a natural person. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020090868fe82f7cff148d1a0000748">
          <inserted>A failure to comply may more appropriately be expiated. <term>COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020</term>, Part 1, section 1(g) modifies the penalty provision on EM act s28(1) to add the expiation of $1,000 (plus a victims of crime levy).</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020090868fe82f7cff148d1a0000749">
          <inserted>Should circumstances warrant, the person may also be subject to a direction under part 10 of the <term>South Australian Public Health Act 2011</term> and required under that legislation to undertake a test.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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