The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2022

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2(2) amends provision in regulation 5 of the principal regulations which exempt a person from the requirement that a face covering must be worn in certain indoor places where a specific distance is maintained between two people, or where they are separated by a partition. This changes the distance to be maintained between persons who are not wearing face coverings in paragraphs (d)(ii) (employees and volunteers in certain places), (f)(ii) (person leading an act of worship in a place of worship), (g)(ii) (person leading a funeral, marriage ceremony or civil partnership registration), (h)(ii) (parties to be married or entering into a civil partnership), (j)(ii) (person performing, presenting, addressing a public gathering, making a speech or acting as a panel member) and (ja)(ii)(bb) (person performing or rehearsing for a performance where certain circumstances apply) of regulation 5(1) of the principal Regulations, from at least two metres to at least one metre.

Regulation 2(3) amends regulation 6(1)(b)(ii)(bb) of the principal Regulations. Regulation 6(1)(b), alongside regulation 5 of the principal Regulations, requires that a face covering must be worn in any indoor communal area in a workplace, where there is no partition, or where people are not otherwise separated by a specified minimum distance. This changes the specified minimum distance between persons who are not required to wear a face covering from at least two metres to at least one metre.

Regulation 2(4) amends regulation 7(1)(h)(ii) of the principal Regulations. The effect of this change is to exempt a person travelling on a ferry, who is not wholly outdoors, from wearing a face covering where a distance of at least one metre is maintained from other persons, as opposed to at least two metres as previously.