The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 16) Regulations 2020

Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 1070

Public Health, England

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 16) Regulations 2020

Made

30th September 2020

Laid before Parliament

1st October 2020

Coming into force

2nd October 2020

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45B, 45F(2) and 45P(2) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(1).

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 16) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 2nd October 2020.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020

2.—(1) The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 4(7)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), omit “or”,

(b) after sub-paragraph (b), insert—

“, or

(c) the beginning of the period for which they are required to self-isolate under regulation 2(2)(a)(i) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020(3) (after which they are subject to that self-isolation requirement).”

(3) In regulation 7—

(a) in paragraph (5), for “6(1)(b) or (c)” substitute “6(1)(c)”;

(b) after paragraph (5), insert—

“(5A) Where the fixed penalty notice is issued to a person in respect of an offence described in regulation 6(1)(b), then the amount specified under paragraph (4)(c) must be—

(a) in the case of the first fixed penalty notice, £1,000,

(b) in the case of the second fixed penalty notice, £2,000,

(c) in the case of the third fixed penalty notice, £4,000,

(d) in the case of the fourth and subsequent fixed penalty notice, £10,000.

(5B) In determining how many fixed penalty notices a person (“P”) has received for the purposes of paragraph 5A, if P received more than one fixed penalty notice for an offence described in regulation 6(1)(b) of these Regulations before 2nd October 2020, only one of those notices may be taken into account.”.

Grant Shapps

Secretary of State

Department for Transport

30th September 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/568) (“the principal Regulations”) to amend the amount of fixed penalty payable by a person who fails to self-isolate when required to by regulation 4 of the principal Regulations. They introduce a “laddering” system whereby the amount payable increases for repeated breaches of the requirement, up to a maximum of £10,000.

The principal Regulations are amended so that the requirement to self-isolate under regulation 4 of the principal Regulations ceases if a person becomes subject to the requirement to self-isolate under regulation 2(2)(a)(i) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument. An explanatory memorandum has been published alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.

(1)

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

(2)

S.I. 2020/568, amended by S.I. 2020/691, 724, 799, 805, 813, 819, 841, 866, 890, 913, 959, 980, 1013 and 1039.

(3)

S.I. 2020/1045.