uksi/2020/1019 — The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Protected Areas and Linked Childcare Households) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

2020 No. 1019 Public Health, England The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Protected Areas and Linked Childcare Households) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 Made 21st September 2020 Laid before Parliament at 10.30 a.m. on 22nd September 2020 Coming into force at 12.01 a.m. on 22nd September 2020 The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45C(1), (3)(c), (4)(b) and (d), 45F(2) and 45P of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 . 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 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment of Protected Areas 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendments relating to provision of childcare 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amendment to the title of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) Regulations 2020 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Further amendments 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Revocation 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Savings 7 Notwithstanding the revocation of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) Regulations 2020 (the “ first Regulations ”), they continue in force, as amended, in relation to any offence committed under the first Regulations before these Regulations came into force. Edward Argar Minister of State Department of Health and Social Care (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations amend the protected areas in the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/824), the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/828), the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/988) and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1010). In relation to those instruments and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Bolton) Regulations 2020, the Regulations also enable households to be “linked childcare households” for the purpose of providing informal childcare. This has the effect of exempting those households from the rules on restrictions of gathering in private dwellings where reasonably necessary for the provision of informal childcare. The Regulations also make an amendment consequential on the change of name of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) Regulations 2020 to Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East and North West of England) Regulations 2020, and revoke the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/822) and its amending instruments. A full regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.