Explained: Your guide to all the new rules from Monday in NSW

Premier Dominic Perrottet unveils a raft of changes to the NSW roadmap, including raising caps on home visits and weddings.

Sydney Harbour Bridge. Vaccinated NSW residents will be able to welcome 10 visitors to their home, up from a limit of five, under the roadmap changes. Picture: Getty

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has unveiled a raft of changes to the NSW roadmap, including raising caps on home visits and weddings, as well as bringing forward the return to school.

Fully vaccinated NSW residents will be able to welcome 10 visitors to their home, up from a limit of five, and socialise in groups of 30 outdoors, up from a cap on 20, from Monday, under the revised roadmap.

Caps on weddings and funerals have also been raised from 50 to 100 people, in a major loosening of restrictions that Mr Perrottet labelled “measured and sensible”, in one of his first major acts as Premier.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Adam Yip

Indoor pools to reopen

Indoor pools will also be allowed to reopen from Monday under the new roadmap.

Limits on home visits will be raised further at 80 per cent vaccination, with people able to have up to 20 home visitors, excluding children 12 and under, up from a limit of 10, and 50 people will be allowed to gather outdoors, up from a limit of 20.

Controlled and ticketed outdoor events will be allowed to host up to 3000 people, which was previously capped at 500, and nightclubs will be able to reopen for seated drinking only, with no dancing permitted.

Schools open earlier

Mr Perrottet also announced changes to the return to classroom learning, with all students now expected to have returned to face-to-face learning by October 25, with the staged return, beginning with kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 12 starting on October 18.

It’s a major relief for parents and their sanity, and I think this is an important dec

ision today and I want to thank all the teachers who are there getting vaccinated to ensure that we can open our schools as safely as possible,” he said.

All students are now expected to have returned to face-to-face learning by October 25. Picture: istock

Returning to the office

Mr Perrottet also announced that mask requirements in offices would be scrapped at 80 per cent vaccination, slated for October 18, rather than 90 per cent.

“In addition to that when it comes to the 80 per cent mark, as you‘d be aware, we set three stages on the roadmap,” he said.

“On the 80 per cent mark, we will be removing the requirement to wear masks in the office.”

Workers in regional NSW will be allowed to return to work with just one-dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, in a major revamp to vaccine mandates.

Deputy Premier Paul Toole said that workers would be given a “grace period” until November 1, when they will be required to have had their second dose.

“Now, this has been done because in some areas it was difficult to be able to get vaccines into those areas and what we are doing is giving a grace period to allow those businesses to be able to open their doors from Monday,” he said.

“This will include regional areas outside of the Blue Mountains area, Central Coast, Shellharbour and Wollongong.”

The changes to the roadmap will continue to apply to fully vaccinated residents only.