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The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 (revoked)

Welsh Statutory Instrument 2020 No. 843 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
7 August 2020
In force from
10 August 2020
Extent
Not stated
Subject
COVID-19 emergency legislation (2020-2022)
Made under
Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Part 2A of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 enables the Welsh Ministers, by regulations, to make provision for the purpose of preventing, protecting against, controlling or providing a public health response to the incidence or spread of infection or contamination in Wales. 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. These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (“the principal Regulations”). The amendments permit community centres, swimming pools, fitness studios, gyms, spas, leisure centres and indoor play areas to open; but measures must be taken to minimise the risk of exposure to coronavirus on the premises. The amendments also confer new powers on local authority enforcement officers to ensure that measures are taken (in accordance with regulation 12 of the principal Regulations) to minimise the risk of exposure to coronavirus at workplaces and other premises that are open. An officer may issue a “premises improvement notice” requiring the person responsible for the premises to take specified measures, and if those measures are not taken an officer may issue a “premises closure notice” requiring the premises to close. Where necessary, an officer may also issue a premises closure notice without having previously issued a premises improvement notice. Provision is made for appeals against notices, for publicising notices, and for breach of the terms of either type of notice to be an offence. The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared as to the likely cost and benefit of complying with these Regulations.

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