Victorian Numbered Regulations

TRANSPORT (COMPLIANCE AND MISCELLANEOUS) (CONDUCT ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT) AND (INFRINGEMENTS) (COVID-19 RESPONSE) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2022 (SR NO 2 OF 2022) - REG 6

After Division 3 of Part 2 of the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) (Conduct on Public Transport) Regulations 2015 insert —

" Division 4—Face coverings

        25A     Wearing a face covering on public transport if required by a pandemic order

    (1)     A person must not, without reasonable excuse, enter or travel in a passenger vehicle without wearing a face covering if a pandemic order is in force that requires a person to wear a face covering in that circumstance.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.

    (2)     A person must not, without reasonable excuse, be in or on the following without wearing a face covering if a pandemic order is in force that requires a person to wear a face covering—

        (a)     a railway station, including—

              (i)     a train platform; and

              (ii)     any compulsory ticket area that is not a train platform;

        (b)     a tram stop shelter or bus stop shelter;

        (c)     a tram stop platform.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.

    (3)     For the purposes of subregulations (1) and (2), reasonable excuse includes, but is not limited to, if the person is exempted from wearing a face covering in accordance with the pandemic order.".