Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 11) Regulations 2020

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (“the principal regulations”).

Regulation 2(3) inserts a new regulation 4ZA into the principal regulations. It requires a person responsible for certain premises to collect information about visitors to those premises, including the visitor’s contact details and the date and time of arrival. The regulation makes provision for the recording, storage and retrieval of the visitor information in a system suitable for that purpose and for the retention period of the information. Paragraph (4) further provides for the visitor information to be provided by the person responsible for the premises to public health officers, if so requested, within a certain time period and for certain purposes. Regulation 2(4) amends regulation 8(1) of the principal regulations to provide that it is an offence to contravene a requirement in new regulation 4ZA.

Regulation 2(2) and (5) are consequential to the insertion of new regulation 4ZA, with the effect of defining “premises” for the purpose of the principal regulations.