For people with more than one ordinary place of residence, your place of residence as of 11:59pm on 12 February must remain your principal place of residence for the circuit breaker period.

No. Auctions for a house or property can only be conducted remotely.

Final inspections and signing of contracts must be undertaken remotely or deferred until after 11:59pm on Wednesday 17 February 2021.

Auctions can only be held remotely.

Yes. You are still able to move to a new house if you had already arranged to move. You should take extra steps to stay safe including wearing a face mask.

If your new house is located more than 5km from your current house you are still able to move.

The people you live with can assist you to move house. Friends, family, or your partner can only assist you to move house if care and support is required due to age, health issues or disability.

Where possible, it is encouraged that you postpone moving house until after the circuit-breaker restrictions.

If you had already arranged to move, you can rent a vehicle to assist you with moving.

The vehicle rental should only be for the time required to complete your move. Car rental businesses are required to have a COVIDSafe Plan in place, including appropriate cleaning in between uses.

Where possible, it is encouraged that you postpone moving house until after the circuit-breaker restrictions.

Yes. A removalist can be used to support vacating a property under current restrictions.

Friends, family, or your partner can only assist someone in another household to move house where care and support is required due to age, health issues or disability.

Where possible, it is encouraged that you postpone moving until after the circuit-breaker restrictions.

Yes, but only if you require a cleaner due to disability, impairment or as a result of your tenancy agreement, you may use a cleaner.

Where possible, it is encouraged that you postpone moving house until after the circuit-breaker restrictions.

Maintenance and repair activities can only be completed for emergency reasons and/or to meet environmental or safety obligations.

All other maintenance and warranty work should be deferred until after circuit-breaker restrictions.

In-home support is permitted for those people that need assistance with cooking or cleaning because they have particular needs related to age, disability, illness, a chronic health condition or other medical reason.

You must maintain physical distancing by keeping at least 1.5 metres distance between yourself and others. You should wear a face mask while in someone else’s home. Where possible, if you can postpone until after the circuit breaker restrictions, then you should postpone.

Hardware, building and garden supplies retail premises are permitted to remain open for permitted workers where their work requires access to such supplies, including tradespersons undertaking emergency repairs. If you are a permitted worker who requires supplies from a hardware store as part of your work, you should check with your local retailer that they are open and their operating hours.

If you are not a permitted worker, check if the retailer is accepting orders for contactless "click and collect" and delivery.

Yes, you may leave your home to undertake these duties. You can travel more than 5km from your primary residence to undertake emergency maintenance of another property.

Keep 1.5 metres between you and anyone else on site. You should keep your time at the property to a minimum and wear a face mask.

Emergency repairs are urgent repairs, which must be undertaken to keep members of the household safe, to prevent members of the household from injury, to prevent property damage or damage to goods, or for urgent repair to an essential service (for example a water connection or internet service).

If you need to have a tradesperson over, maintain your distance, wear a face mask, and minimise physical contact by paying with a direct bank transfer or contactless payment.

Yes. An insurance assessor can attend in the case of an emergency assessment. If this can be done remotely, it should.

You can do emergency repairs for your elderly parents if they are unable to do them themselves.