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

Regulations (2)(3)(a) and (b) remove the requirement for persons responsible for restaurants, cafes, bars, public houses etc. to collect and share visitor information (regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations) and the requirement for a person responsible for a place of worship, carrying on a business or providing a service to have regard to guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers and to take measures to minimise the incidence and spread of coronavirus (regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations).

Regulation 2(2) removes the definition of “alcohol” from regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations as that term no longer appears. The remaining regulations make consequential changes following the revocation of regulations 3 and 4 of the Principal Regulations. These include removing regulations 15(8)(b) and (9), 16A and 17(10) of the Principal Regulations due to cross-referencing regulations 3 and 4 of the Principal Regulations. Likewise regulation 2(5) omits a reference in regulation 16(1) of the Principal Regulations to regulation 4(1)(b) of the Principal Regulations.