The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Protected Areas and Linked Childcare Households) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 1019

Public Health, England

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Protected Areas and Linked Childcare Households) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Made

21st September 2020

Laid before Parliament

at 10.30 a.m. on 22nd September 2020

Coming into force

at 12.01 a.m. on 22nd September 2020

F1 The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45C(1), (3)(c), (4)(b) and (d), 45F(2) and 45P of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 M1 .

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 England.

The Secretary of State considers 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 section 45R of that Act the Secretary of State is 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, each House of Parliament.

Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (except reg. 7) (14.10.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1103), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 6(d) (with reg. 9)

Marginal Citations

M1 1984 c. 22. Part 2A was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14).

Citation and commencement E+W

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Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (except reg. 7) (14.10.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1103), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 6(d) (with reg. 9)

Amendment of Protected Areas E+W

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Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (except reg. 7) (14.10.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1103), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 6(d) (with reg. 9)

Amendments relating to provision of childcare E+W

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Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (except reg. 7) (14.10.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1103), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 6(d) (with reg. 9)

Amendment to the title of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) Regulations 2020 E+W

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Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (except reg. 7) (14.10.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1103), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 6(d) (with reg. 9)

Further amendments E+W

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Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (except reg. 7) (14.10.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1103), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 6(d) (with reg. 9)

Revocation E+W

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Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (except reg. 7) (14.10.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1103), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 6(d) (with reg. 9)

Savings E+W

7.  Notwithstanding the revocation of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) Regulations 2020 (the “ first Regulations”), they continue in force, as amended, in relation to any offence committed under the first Regulations before these Regulations came into force.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 7 in force at 22.9.2020 at 12.01 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Edward Argar

Minister of State

Department of Health and Social Care

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the protected areas in the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/824), the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/828), the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/988) and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1010).

In relation to those instruments and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Bolton) Regulations 2020, the Regulations also enable households to be “linked childcare households” for the purpose of providing informal childcare. This has the effect of exempting those households from the rules on restrictions of gathering in private dwellings where reasonably necessary for the provision of informal childcare.

The Regulations also make an amendment consequential on the change of name of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) Regulations 2020 to Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East and North West of England) Regulations 2020, and revoke the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/822) and its amending instruments.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.