The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 24) Regulations 2021

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 211

Public Health

The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 24) Regulations 2021

Approved by the Scottish Parliament

Made

at 1.20 p.m. on 21st May 2021

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

at 2.45 p.m. on 21st May 2021

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 1(1) of schedule 19 of the Coronavirus Act 2020(1) (“the Act”) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

These Regulations are made in response to the serious and imminent threat to public health which is posed by the incidence and spread of coronavirus in Scotland.

The Scottish Ministers consider 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 paragraph 6(2) and (3) of schedule 19 of the Act, the Scottish Ministers are 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 Scottish Parliament.

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 24) Regulations 2021.

(2) Except regulation 4, these Regulations come into force on 22 May 2021.

(3) Regulation 4 comes into force on 24 May 2021.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020

2.  The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020(2) are amended as follows.

Amendment of schedule 6 (areas)

3.  In the table in schedule 6 (areas)(3) omit entry 8 (Moray local government area).

Amendment of schedule 7A (restrictions on leaving or entering Scotland)

4.  In paragraph 4 of schedule 7A (restrictions on leaving or entering Scotland)(4), after sub-paragraph (a) insert—

“(b) in England, the areas of—

(i) Bedford Borough Council,

(ii) Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council,

(iii) Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council.”.

JOHN SWINNEY

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

At 1.20 p.m. on 21st May 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (“the Local Levels Regulations”).

Regulation 3 amends schedule 6 of the Local Levels Regulations to the effect that, from 22 May 2021, Level 2 restrictions apply in the Moray local government area.

Regulation 4 amends schedule 7A of the Local Levels Regulations to the effect that, from 24 May 2021, the following places in England are added to the list of places in respect of which the restrictions set out in schedule 7A apply: the area of Bedford Borough Council, the area of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council and the area of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council.

(1)

2020 c.7.

(2)

S.S.I. 2020/344, last amended by S.S.I. 2021/209.

(3)

The table in schedule 6 was substituted by S.S.I. 2021/209.

(4)

Schedule 7A was inserted by S.S.I. 2020/389. Paragraph 4 of schedule 7A was substituted by S.S.I. 2021/193.