Since the Public Health Order was introduced, NSW Police have handed out hundreds of fines to people caught outside their homes without a "reasonable excuse".
Examples of a "reasonable excuse" include "obtaining food or other goods and services, travelling for the purposes of work or education if the person cannot do it at home, exercise or medical or caring reasons".
The majority of on-the-spot fines dished out so far, however, have not been in Sydney's wealthier areas, despite multiple suburbs being named as virus hot spots.
An analysis of NSW Police data by The Saturday Paper found infringement notices were disproportionately issued in the city's lower socio-economic western suburbs, while the wealthier eastern suburbs and northern beaches account for a much smaller portion of fines.
The McLaren driver was the only infringement notice issued in the eastern suburbs over the weekend – while the bulk were issued around Auburn or Mount Druitt.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said when the fines were introduced that while police did not want to be handing out on-the-spot fines to people, "lives are at stake, and all of us have to accept that the world is different".
erejiklian said at the beginning of April some of the state's social-distancing rules could be relaxed as early as May 1, though lifting restrictions "comes with a risk".
"When you do lift any of the restrictions, it does mean that more people will be admitted to our hospitals and more people who will succumb to the virus," she said.
"Every time you relax a restriction, more people will get sick. More people will die."
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said some of the laws would be in place until the end of June, and that he would not seek to extend them.
"People will have gotten the message by then, hopefully," he said.
