The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Transitional provision about extended households

5.—(1) This paragraph applies where a household—

(a) is part of an extended household during the Christmas period by virtue of the modifications made in paragraph 3 or 4 of this Schedule (a “Christmas extended household”), and

(b) immediately before the Christmas period, was part of an extended household formed under or by virtue of paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 (a “pre-Christmas extended household”) as it applies without the modifications made in paragraph 3.

(2) For the purposes of these Regulations as modified by this Schedule—

(a) the pre-Christmas extended household is to be treated as if it no longer exists, and

(b) the household is to be treated as if it had not agreed to be treated as an extended household prior to agreeing to form part of the Christmas extended household.

(3) Immediately upon the end of the Christmas period, the household is to be treated, for the purposes of these Regulations, as if it had made no previous agreement to be treated as part of an extended household.

(4) In this paragraph “Christmas period” in relation to a household means—

(a) the period beginning with 23 December 2020 and ending with 27 December 2020, or

(b) where the household—

(i) is living in Northern Ireland, or

(ii) is part of a Christmas extended household with a household living in Northern Ireland,

the period beginning with 22 December 2020 and ending with 28 December 2020.