Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2022

The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2022
2022 No. 77
Public Health

The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 4) Regulations 2022

Made
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 1(1) of schedule 19 of the Coronavirus Act 20201 (“the Act”) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

These Regulations are made in response to the serious and imminent threat to public health which is posed by the incidence and spread of coronavirus in Scotland.

The Scottish Ministers consider that the 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 paragraph 6(1) of schedule 19 of the Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

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2020 c. 7. Section 89(1) of the Act provides that the Act expires at the end of the period of two years beginning with the day on which it is passed, subject to subsection (2) and section 90. That period is prospectively amended by S.S.I. 2022/40.