The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 9) Regulations 2020

Made: at 12.39 p.m. on 23rd December 2020

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: at 3.00 p.m. on 23rd December 2020

Coming into force: 26th December 2020

In accordance with paragraph 6(2) and (3) of schedule 19 of the Act, the Scottish Ministers are 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 Scottish Parliament.

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 9) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 26 December 2020.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020

2

The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020[^f00002] are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 6.

Amendments to restrict travel to and from the Republic of Ireland

3

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), omit the definition of “County Donegal”.

4

In paragraph 4 of schedule 7A (restrictions on leaving or entering Scotland: common travel area), for “County Donegal” substitute “the Republic of Ireland”.

Amendment to Level 4: closure of premises

5

In paragraph 1(2) of schedule 5 (closure of certain premises in Level 4), after head (sa), insert—

(sb) a tanning salon or premises which operates a self-tanning machine or a spray-tan booth, (sc) a travel agency, (sd) a premises laid out as a showroom to demonstrate products for installation in residential property, such as kitchen, bathroom, furniture or glazing showrooms

6

In paragraph 2 of schedule 5 (closure of retail premises in Level 4)—

• (a) for sub-paragraph (3)(e), substitute—

(e) building merchants and suppliers of products and tools used in building work and repairs,

• (b) in sub-paragraph (3)(u), omit “garden centres, plant nurseries,”.

Signed

MICHAEL RUSSELL — A member of the Scottish Government — At 12.39 p.m. on 23rd December 2020

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (“the Local Levels Regulations”). These Regulations come into force on 26 December 2020.

Regulations 3 and 4 amend schedule 7A of the Local Levels Regulations so that the restrictions in relation to the common travel area apply to the whole of the Republic of Ireland rather than just County Donegal.

Regulations 5 and 6 amend schedule 5 of the Local Levels Regulations to alter premises which are required to close in a Level 4 area. Regulation 5 adds the following to the definition of a “listed business” in paragraph 1 of schedule 5: travel agencies, tanning salons or premises which operate self-tanning machines or spray-tan booths, and certain showrooms such as kitchen, bathroom, furniture or glazing showrooms.

Regulation 6 alters the list of retail premises that are exempt from the closure requirements in paragraph 2 of schedule 5. It omits garden centres and plant nurseries from that list and replaces “homeware, building supplies and hardware stores” with “building merchants and suppliers of products and tools used in building work and repairs”.

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared. Copies may be obtained online at www.legislation.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2020 c.7.

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2020/344, amended by S.S.I. 2020/347, S.S.I. 2020/374, S.S.I. 2020/389, S.S.I. 2020/392, S.S.I. 2020/400, S.S.I. 2020/ 415, S.S.I. 2020/427, S.S.I. 2020/439 and S.S.I. 2020/452.