Here are the latest rulings from NSW Health which supersede the previous advice published on the Service NSW website:
Capacity limits for prescribed work
Greater Sydney (excluding the local government areas of concern)
If you are doing prescribed work at a home, you must ensure that
- no more than 2 people are working in an indoor area at the same time;
- a resident must stay in a separate indoor area to where the work is being carried out
- no more than 5 people are working in an outdoor area at the same time.
And “prescribed work”, allowed outside of the eight hot spot LGAs means …
Prescribed work
Prescribed work is renovation (alterations or additions), repair, maintenance or cleaning work.
You do not need an exemption or confirmation from the NSW Government to do prescribed work or other work that is allowed.
Prescribed work does not include renovations at unoccupied homes. The rules for construction applies to renovations at unoccupied homes.
All work – including prescribed work – does not need to be necessary to be undertaken in Regional NSW or in Greater Sydney outside local government areas of concern.
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