The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2022

Made: at 12.00 p.m. on 16th March 2022

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: at 2.30 p.m. on 16th March 2022

Coming into force: 21st March 2022

In accordance with paragraph 6(2), (3) and (4) 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

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These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2022 and come into force on 21 March 2022.

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021

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• (1) The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021[^f00002] are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

• (2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), omit the definition of “alcohol”.

• (3) Omit regulations—

• (a) 3 (requirement to collect and share information: restaurants, cafes, bars, public houses etc.),

• (b) 4 (guidance on minimising exposure to and requirement to take measures to minimise incidence and spread of coronavirus),

• (c) 16A (power of entry), and

• (d) 17(10) (fixed penalty notices).

• (4) In regulation 15 (enforcement of requirements) omit—

• (a) at the end of paragraph (8)(a) “, or”,

• (b) paragraph (8)(b), and

• (c) paragraph (9).

• (5) In regulation 16(1) (offences and penalties) omit “, other than the requirement in regulation 4(1)(b)”.

Signed

JOHN SWINNEY — A member of the Scottish Government — At 12.00 p.m. on 16th March 2022

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (“the Principal Regulations”).

Regulations (2)(3)(a) and (b) remove the requirement for persons responsible for restaurants, cafes, bars, public houses etc. to collect and share visitor information (regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations) and the requirement for a person responsible for a place of worship, carrying on a business or providing a service to have regard to guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers and to take measures to minimise the incidence and spread of coronavirus (regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations).

Regulation 2(2) removes the definition of “alcohol” from regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations as that term no longer appears. The remaining regulations make consequential changes following the revocation of regulations 3 and 4 of the Principal Regulations. These include removing regulations 15(8)(b) and (9), 16A and 17(10) of the Principal Regulations due to cross-referencing regulations 3 and 4 of the Principal Regulations. Likewise regulation 2(5) omits a reference in regulation 16(1) of the Principal Regulations to regulation 4(1)(b) of the Principal Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2020 c. 7.

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2021/277 as relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2021/349, S.S.I. 2021/475, S.S.I. 2021/496, S.S.I. 2021/497, S.S.I. 2022/13 and S.S.I. 2022/74.