The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made: at 5.30 p.m. on 12th November 2020

Laid before the Assembly: at 9.00 a.m. on 13th November 2020

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2)

In accordance with section 25Q of that Act the Department of Health is of the opinion that, by reason of urgency, it is necessary to make these Regulations without a draft having been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) (Amendment No.4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020.

• (2) These Regulations come into operation at the time that they are made.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

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• (1) Regulation 8 (fixed penalty notices) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020[^f00003] is amended in accordance with this regulation.

• (2) In paragraph (6) for “£60” substitute “£200”.

• (3) For paragraph (7) substitute—

(7) A fixed penalty notice must specify that if £100 is paid before the end of the period of 14 days following the date of that notice, that is the amount of the fixed penalty. (7A) A person shall not be issued with a fixed penalty notice for a further breach of a particular requirement under these Regulations where that person has already been issued with such a notice in respect of a previous breach of that particular requirement.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health at 5.30 pm on 12th November 2020

Robin Swann — Minister of Health

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 to provide for a simplified fixed penalty regime whereby the amount of a fixed penalty shall be £200 or, if paid within a period of 14 days of issue of such a notice, £100 and to provide that the recipient of a fixed penalty notice cannot be issued with another one in respect of the same offence.

No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared for the Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety; see 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5)

[^f00002]: 1967 c. 36 (N.I.). Part 1A was inserted by section 48 of, and Schedule 18 to, the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7)

[^f00003]: S.R. 2020 No. 151 as amended by S.R. 2020 Nos. 164, 220 and 233