N.I.
Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2020 No. 290
Public Health
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 18) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020
Made
at 7.30 p.m. on 27th November 2020
Laid before the Assembly
at 9.00 a.m. on 30th November 2020
Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2)
The Department of Health F1, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25C(1), (3)(c), (4)(d) and 25F(2) of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 F2.
These Regulations are made in response to the serious and imminent threat to public health which is posed by the incidence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Northern Ireland.
The Department of Health considers that the restrictions and requirements imposed by these Regulations are proportionate to what they seek to achieve, which is a public health response to that threat.
In accordance with section 25Q of that Act the Department of Health is of the opinion that, by reason of urgency, it is necessary to make these Regulations without a draft having been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.
F1Formerly the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety; see 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5)
F21967 c. 36 (N.I.). Part 1A was inserted by section 48 of, and Schedule 18 to, the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7)
Citation, commencement and interpretationN.I.
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 18) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020.
(2) These Regulations come into operation at the time and date they are made.
Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020N.I.
2.—(1) The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 F3 is amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In paragraph 9A(4) for “4 persons” substitute “ eight persons ”.
(3) In paragraph 1(1)(f) of schedule 2, after “sports and massage therapy” insert “ (but not sports massage therapy) ”.
F3S.R. 2020 No.150 as amended by S.R. 2020 Nos. 170, 187, 195, 198, 202, 204, 210, 213, 224, 225, 232, 239, 250, 255, 256 274 287.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health at 7.30pm on 27th November 2020
L.S.
Dr Lourda Geoghegan
A senior officer of the
Department of Health
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020.
The amendment in regulation 2(2) of these Regulations increases the number of persons who can attend a place of worship for the purpose of recording or live streaming an act of worship to no more than 8 persons.
The amendment in regulation 2(3) removes sports massage therapy from the list of close contact services.
No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.