2020 No. 497 (W. 118)
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020
Approved by both Houses of Parliament
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) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 and they come into force at 4.00 p.m. on 11 May 2020.
Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020I22
1
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020 F2 are amended as follows.
2
In regulation 3—
a
in paragraph (2), after “Regulations” insert “
, and whether those restrictions and requirements are proportionate to what the Welsh Ministers seek to achieve by them,
”
;
b
omit paragraphs (3), (4), (4A) and (5).
3
In regulation 4, in paragraph (5)(c), for “, gallery or library” substitute “
or gallery
”
.
4
In regulation 8, in paragraph (2)—
a
after sub-paragraph (aa) insert—
ab
to collect goods which have been purchased from a person providing a service in response to orders or enquiries by virtue of the exception to the requirement to cease carrying on a business in regulation 6(2)(a);
b
in sub-paragraph (b), for “no more than once a day (or more frequently if this is needed because of a particular health condition
or disability)” substitute “
within an area local to the place where the person is living
”
;
c
after sub-paragraph (i)—
ia
to access recycling or waste disposal services;
ib
to visit a library;
5
In Schedule 1—
a
in paragraph 10, omit “, libraries”;
b
after paragraph 33 insert—
33A
Garden centres and plant nurseries.
c
after paragraph 47 insert—
48
Libraries.
Consequential amendment to the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020I33
Omit regulation 2 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 F3.
Saving for offences and penalties in relation to prior actsI44
Regulations 12 and 13 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020 continue to have effect in relation to any offence committed, or reasonably believed to have been committed, before these Regulations came into force as if the amendments set out in regulation 2 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.