On 15 March 2022, the Department of Employment and Labour issued
a Code of Practice on managing exposure to COVID-19 in the
workplace (the "New Code"). The New Code
is to take effect on the date that the Declaration of a National
State of Disaster lapses. On the same date, the Declaration of a
National State of Disaster was been extended to 15 April 2022.
Practically, this means is that the New Code will only come into
effect once the existing disaster management framework has fallen
away. Until that time, it seems that the Consolidated Direction on
Health and Safety in Certain Workplaces (which currently deals with
mandatory vaccination) will still be in force.
Given that the Declaration of a National State of Disaster was
just extended by a month, this may not have been the intention of
the drafters at the time, particularly in circumstances where
portions of the Consolidated Direction conflict with the new
Adjusted Alert Level 1 regulations. But insofar as the
