{"id":7766,"date":"2020-08-19T02:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T02:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2020-08-19T02:51:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T02:51:59","slug":"riverina-restaurant-owner-and-woman-fined-over-separate-breaches-of-public-health-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/19\/riverina-restaurant-owner-and-woman-fined-over-separate-breaches-of-public-health-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverina restaurant owner and woman fined over separate breaches of Public Health Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Riverina region have issued two Penalty Infringement Notices (PINs) in the past 24 hours for non-compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Orders.<br \/>\nAs part of proactive compliance operations, officers from Riverina Police District attended a restaurant on Fernleigh Road, Mount Austin, just before 7pm on Saturday (15 August 2020).<br \/>\nAfter speaking with the 39-year-old male owner, officers conducted a walk-through and established that a COVID Safety Plan had not been completed.<br \/>\nFurther, the owner, who was also the chef, claimed to be the designated COVID marshal.<br \/>\nThe owner was informed he would receive a $5000 PIN for non-compliance with the Public Health Orders, which was issued yesterday (Tuesday 18 August 2020).<br \/>\nIn a separate and unrelated incident, officers from Riverina Police District have been conducting inquiries into suspected non-compliance of self-isolation directions since late last month.<br \/>\nOn Saturday 25 July 2020, local police were contacted after a 25-year-old woman, who had arrived in Wagga Wagga from Victoria on Thursday 23 July 2020 on a valid permit, was reportedly not self-isolating.<br \/>\nPolice conducted a number of inquiries, including repeat compliance checks, during which it was established she had not been self-isolating.<br \/>\nOfficers advised the woman she would receive a $1000 PIN for fail to comply with noticed direction in relation to s7\/8\/9 \u2013 COVID-19 and reminded she must complete the full self-isolation period.<br \/>\nThe woman was issued with the PIN yesterday (Tuesday 18 August 2020).<br \/>\nPolice continue to appeal to the community to report suspected breaches of any ministerial direction or behaviour which may impact on the health and safety of the community.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Anyone who has information regarding individuals or businesses in contravention of a COVID-19-related ministerial direction is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\"><strong>https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/strong><\/a><em><strong>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Riverina region have issued two Penalty Infringement Notices (PINs) in the past 24 hours for non-compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Orders. As part of proactive compliance operations, officers from Riverina Police District attended a restaurant on Fernleigh Road, Mount Austin, just before 7pm on Saturday (15 August 2020). After speaking with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/19\/riverina-restaurant-owner-and-woman-fined-over-separate-breaches-of-public-health-orders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Riverina restaurant owner and woman fined over separate breaches of Public Health Orders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}