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On the same topic, this is what the Public Health Order says about police questioning residents’
… if a police officer knocks at a door of the premises—a person … is required to open the door and comply with the request of the officer, and a request for information may include a request to provide the name and contact details of persons residing or present at the premises, whether at the time of the request or generally.
Now, given that elsewhere in the PHO the word “premises” means the unit block, are you expected to open the door of the block to the police? And are you then expected to give the contact details of everyone you know in the block?
Obviously not, but this is the kind of loophole through which anti-vaxxers will ride their legalogic train.
FYI, the PHO doesn’t define “premises” but it says “dwelling” is the same as is defined in the Local Environmental Plan Act, which is: ‘a room or suite of rooms occupied or used or so constructed or adapted as to be capable of being occupied or used as a separate domicile’.
So “dwelling” clearly doesn’t mean the same as “premises”. This is just sloppy writing than can easily lead to unnecessary conflict and confusion.