EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020—
(a)to make further provision to determine the day on which a person who has received a complete course of doses of an authorised vaccine is exempt from the obligation to self-isolate, if someone in their household tests positive for coronavirus,
(b)to ensure that someone who has received doses of different authorised vaccines may still be regarded as having completed a course of doses of an authorised vaccine for the purposes of the exemption in regulation 2B,
(c)to ensure that a person’s obligation to self-isolate under regulation 2B, or their obligations as a participant in a testing scheme under 2D, continue even if P’s obligations to self-isolate under regulation 2A ceases to apply under regulation 2C, and
(d)to change the date on which the Regulations expire to 24th March 2022.
The Regulations also change the date on which the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 expire to 24th March 2022.
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument. An explanatory memorandum has been published alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.