2020 No. 867 (W. 189)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2020
Approved by Senedd Cymru
Made
Laid before Senedd Cymru
Coming into force
The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45C(1) and (3)(c), 45F(2) and 45P of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 F1.
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 Wales.
The Welsh Ministers consider that the amendments made by these Regulations are proportionate to what they seek to achieve, which is a public health response to that threat.
In accordance with section 45R of that Act the Welsh Ministers are of the opinion that, by reason of urgency, it is necessary to make this instrument without a draft having been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, Senedd Cymru.
Title and coming into forceI11
The title of these Regulations is the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2020 and they come into force on 17 August 2020.
Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2020I22
1
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2020 F2 are amended as follows.
2
In regulation 12—
a
in the words at the beginning of paragraph (2), after “premises,” insert “
or the spread of coronavirus by those who have been at the premises
”
;
b
at the end of paragraph (2A), insert—
c
collecting contact information from each person at the premises or, in relation to persons from the same household, from one of them, and retaining it for 21 days for the purpose of providing it to the Welsh Ministers or to a public health officer upon either's request.
c
after paragraph (4), insert—
5
In this regulation—
a
“contact information”, in relation to a person at the premises, means the person's name and information sufficient to enable the person to be contacted, to inform them that they may have been exposed to coronavirus at the premises (including a telephone number and the date and time at which the person was at the premises);
b
“public health officer” has the same meaning as in paragraph 3(2)(c) of Schedule 21 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 F3.
3
In regulation 20—
a
omit paragraph (3A);
b
in paragraph (4), for “Any other” substitute “
An
”
.
4
In Schedule 5, in paragraph 5(6), for “compensate the person responsible for the premises” substitute “
pay compensation
”
.
Savings for offences and penalties in relation to prior actsI33
Regulations 20 and 21 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2020 continue to have effect in relation to any offence committed, or reasonably believed to have been committed, before the amendments made by these Regulations came into force as if those amendments had not been made.
1984 c. 22. Sections 45C, 45F and 45P were inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14). The functions under these sections are conferred on “the appropriate Minister”. Under section 45T(6) of the 1984 Act the appropriate Minister, as respects Wales, is the Welsh Ministers.