The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford, Leicester, and North of England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 954

Public Health, England

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford, Leicester, and North of England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

at 12.00 p.m. on 7th September 2020

Laid before Parliament

at 3.30 p.m. on 7th September 2020

Coming into force

8th September 2020

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

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 the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) Regulations 2020(2), the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No. 2) Regulations 2020(3), and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England) Regulations 2020(4), as amended 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.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford, Leicester, and North of England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 8th September 2020.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) Regulations 2020

2.  The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) Regulations 2020 are amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 3, omit—

(i) paragraph (2)(b) and (c),

(ii) paragraph (3),

(b) in the Schedule, omit paragraphs 4 to 11.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

3.  The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 are amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 4—

(i) in paragraph (2)(b), omit the words from “including indoor fitness studios” to the end,

(ii) omit paragraph (2)(c),

(iii) omit paragraph (3),

(b) in the Schedule, omit paragraphs 12, 14 and 15.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England) Regulations 2020

4.  Regulation 7A of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England) Regulations 2020 is amended as follows—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) A person responsible for carrying on a business or providing a service—

(a) which is listed in any of paragraphs 1 to 3 of the Schedule in the protected area must cease to carry on that business or to provide that service in the protected area during the emergency period,

(b) which is listed in any of paragraphs 4 to 8 of the Schedule in the area of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council must cease to carry on that business or to provide that service in that area during the emergency period.”,

(b) in paragraph (6), after “protected area” in both places insert “or the area of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council (as the case may be)”.

Matt Hancock

Secretary of State,

Department of Health and Social Care

At 12.00 p.m. on 7th September 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) Regulations 2020, the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No. 2) Regulations 2020, and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England) Regulations 2020 to allow the opening of certain businesses and leisure facilities in the areas covered by those Regulations, other than in the area of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council.

No impact assessment has been carried out for these Regulations.

(1)

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

(2)

S.I. 2020/822, as amended by S.I. 2020/898, 930 and 935.There are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

S.I. 2020/824, as amended by S.I. 2020/875. There are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(4)

S.I. 2020/828, as amended by S.I. 2020/846, 865, 897 and 931. The title of the instrument was amended by S.I. 2020/865. There are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations.