LIST: Tasmania self-isolation exemptions

See the full list of exemptions to Tasmania’s tough new self-isolation laws.

PREMIER Peter Gutwein yesterday announced all travellers incoming to Tasmania will be required to self-isolate for 14 days.

However there are some exceptions to the rule.

Those who fall under the following categories will be exempt from self-isolating.

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EXEMPTIONS:

1. National and State Security and Governance

a. Any Government senior official who in the carriage of his or her duties is responsible for the safety of the Nation or Tasmania against threats such as terrorism, war, or espionage, and is required to be present in Tasmania for such purposes; and

b. Active Military personnel required to be on duty in Tasmania while in Tasmania; and

c. A member of the Commonwealth parliament who is ordinarily resident in Tasmania.

2. Health Services

a. A clinician in relation to health who is ordinarily resident in Tasmania and who is requested by the Secretary of the Department of Health, or his or her delegate, to return to Tasmania to present for duty in Tasmania; and

b. A clinician in relation to health who is requested by the Secretary of the Department of Health, or his or her delegate, to present for duty in Tasmania to perform, during the period in which the person will be present in Tasmania, duties unable to be appropriately performed by a person ordinarily resident in Tasmania.

3. Transport, freight and logistics

a. Any person who in the carriage of his or her duties is responsible for provision of transport or freight and logistics into, within and out of Tasmania; and

b. Flight Crew and ship crew –

for the purpose of delivery of persons, freight or logistics into, within and out of Tasmania.

4. Specialist skills critical to maintaining key industries or businesses

a. Any specialists required for industry or business continuity and maintenance of competitive operations where the appropriate skills are not available in Tasmania, where the service is time-critical and where the provision of the service requires that the person be physically present in Tasmania; and

b. Any person who, in the carriage of his or her duties, is responsible, while in Tasmania, for critical maintenance or repair of infrastructure critical to Tasmania; and

c. Any person travelling from Antarctica directly to Tasmania.

5. Paramedics and ambulance officers

a. A paramedic, or an officer of Ambulance Tasmania, each within the meaning of the Ambulance Service Act 1982, who is returning to Tasmania as soon as practicable after providing medical transport to a patient or who is returning to Tasmania while providing medical transport to a person;

b. A paramedic, or an officer of Ambulance Tasmania, each within the meaning of the Ambulance Service Act 1982, who is ordinarily resident in Tasmania and who is requested by the Commissioner of Ambulance Services, or his or her delegate, to return to Tasmania to present for duty in Tasmania.

6. Other persons, or class of persons, exempted by the Secretary DPIPWE

a. Any other person, or member of a class of persons, in relation to whom, in the opinion of the Secretary DPIPWE, self-quarantine would lead to an unusual, undeserved or disproportionate hardship; and

b. Any other person, or member of a class of persons, who, in the opinion of the Secretary DPIPWE, is essential for the proper functioning of Tasmania.

In relation to FIFOs

A Tasmanian resident FIFO worker returning from working interstate will have to go into quarantine (using the national isolation guidelines) but will not be subject to a minimum of 14 days. They only need to self-isolate for the period that they are back home in Tasmania.

A non-Tasmanian who travels in to work in Tasmania will have to do the mandatory 14 days quarantine, unless they fall under one of the above categories of exemption.