6   No. 43107 (a) GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18 MARCH 2020 paid into the Reconstruction and Development Fund, established by the Reconstruction and Development Fund Act, 1994 (Act No. 7 of 1994); and (b) used strictly for purposes of implementing these Regulations and directions issued in terms of section 27(2) of the Act in relation to the national state of disaster. Prevention and prohibition of gatherings 3. (1) In order to contain the spread of COVID-19, a gathering is prohibited. (2) An enforcement officer must, where a gathering takes place— (a) order the persons at the gathering to disperse immediately; and (b) if they refuse to disperse, take appropriate action, which may, subject to the Criminal Procedure Act, include arrest and detention. (3) The assembly of more than 50 persons at premises where liquor is sold and consumed is prohibited. Refusal of medical examination, prophylaxis, treatment, isolation and quarantine 4. (1) No person who has been clinically, or by a laboratory, confirmed as having COVID-19, or who is suspected of having contracted COVID-19, or who has been in contact with a person who is a carrier of COVID–19, may refuse consent to an enforcement officer for— (a) submission of that person to a medical examination, including but not limited to the taking of any bodily sample by a person authorised in law to do so; (b) admission of that person to a health establishment or a quarantine or isolation site; or (c) submission of that person to mandatory prophylaxis, treatment, isolation or quarantine or isolation in order to prevent transmission: Provided that if a person does not comply with the instruction or order of the enforcement officer, that person must be placed in isolation or quarantine for a period of 48 hours, as the case may be, pending a warrant being issued by a magistrate, on application by an enforcement officer for the medical examination contemplated in paragraph (a). (2) A warrant contemplated in subregulation (1) may be issued by a magistrate, if it appears from information on oath or affirmation by an enforcement officer — (a) that a person is confirmed as having been infected with COVID-19; 3 This gazette is also available free online at www.gpwonline.co.za

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