2020 No. 1079 (W. 242)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2020
Made
Laid before 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. 17) Regulations 2020 and they come into force on 3 October 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 2A, in paragraph (3)(a), for “and regulation 14(1)(b)(i)” substitute “
, regulation 14(1)(b)(i) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 4A
”
.
3
In regulation 12B, omit paragraph (5).
4
In Schedule 2, omit paragraph 10.
5
In Schedule 4, after paragraph 45 insert—
46
Skating rinks.
6
In Schedule 4A, for paragraph 2 substitute—
2Restriction on extended households
1
Where, before the area in which a household lives became a local health protection area, the household agreed to be treated as being in an extended household with other households in accordance with regulation 2A—
a
that household is not to be treated as being in the extended household from the time at which the area became a local health protection area, and
b
the other households continue to be treated as an extended household (provided they are not living in a local health protection area) and regulation 2A applies to those households accordingly.
2
Despite regulation 2A(1), no household living in a local health protection area may agree to be treated as an extended household with other households.
3
But a household comprising of no more than one adult (and any number of children) living in a local health protection area and another household also living in that area, may agree to be treated as a temporary extended household.
4
A household ceases to be treated as being in a temporary extended household if—
a
the household ceases to live in the local health protection area, or
b
the area ceases to be a local health protection area.
5
Paragraphs (2) to (6) of regulation 2A apply to (two) households treated as a temporary extended household under sub-paragraph (3) as they apply to (up to four) households treated as an extended household under regulation 2A(1).
6
But regulation 2A(4) does not prevent—
a
two households being treated as a temporary extended household under sub-paragraph (3) where either household—
i
was treated as being in an extended household in accordance with regulation 2A, and
ii
is no longer treated as being in an extended household by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a);
b
up to four households being treated as an extended household under regulation 2A(1) where at least one of the households—
i
was treated as being in a temporary extended household in accordance with sub-paragraph (3), and
ii
is no longer treated as being in a temporary extended household by virtue of sub-paragraph (4).
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.