Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

Amendment of regulation 23.

(1)

Regulation 2(1)3 is amended as follows.

(2)

At the appropriate place insert—

““elite development pathway” means a development pathway established by the national governing body of a sport to prepare sportspersons—

(a)

so that they may derive a living from competing in that sport, or

(b)

to compete at that sport at the Tokyo or Beijing Olympic or Paralympic Games, or, if that sport is not part of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games programme, in the Commonwealth Games to be held in Birmingham;”;

““elite sportsperson” means an individual who—

(a)

derives a living from competing in a sport,

(b)

is a senior representative nominated by a relevant sporting body,

(c)

is a member of the senior training squad for a relevant sporting body, or

(d)

is aged 16 or above and on an elite development pathway;”;

““place of worship” means any building, room or other premises used for public religious worship;”;

““professional choreographer” means a person who derives their living choreographing dance;”;

““professional dancer” means a person who derives their living from dance;”;

““pupil” has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Education Act 19964;”;

““relevant sporting body” means the national governing body of a sport which may nominate sportspersons to represent—

(a)

Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Tokyo or Beijing Olympic or Paralympic Games, or

(b)

England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey or the Isle of Man at the Commonwealth Games to be held in Birmingham in those sports which are not part of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games programme;”;

““religious school” means a school, as defined in section 4 of the Education Act 1996, which is—

(a)

designated as having a religious character under section 69(3) of the School Standards and Framework Act 19985, or

(b)

recorded as having a religious ethos in the register of independent educational institutions in England kept by the Secretary of State under section 95 of the Education and Skills Act 20086;”;

““senior representative” means an individual who is considered by a relevant sporting body to be a candidate to qualify to compete on behalf of—

(a)

Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Tokyo or Beijing Olympic or Paralympic Games, or

(b)

England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey or the Isle of Man at the Commonwealth Games to be held in Birmingham in those sports which are not part of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games programme;”;

““shopping centre” means a building containing shops having frontages to an arcade or mall or other covered circulation area;”.

(3)

Omit the definition of—

(a)

“indoor places of worship”7; and

(b)

“enclosed shopping centre”.

(4)

For the definition of “relevant place”8 substitute—

““relevant place” means—

(a)

any premises listed in Schedule 1 which are indoors;

(b)

any part of any premises listed in Schedule 1 which is indoors;

(c)

any transport hub, or any part of a transport hub, which is indoors;”

3

Regulation 2(1) was amended by regulation 2(1) – (3) of S.I. 2020/839.

5

1998 c. 31. Subsections (3) and (5) of section 69 apply to independent schools in accordance with section 124B of the same Act.

7

The definition of “indoor places of worship” was inserted into regulation 2(1) by regulation 2(1) and (2) of S.I. 2020/839.

8

The definition of “relevant place” was amended by regulation 2(1) and (3) of S.I. 2020/839.