Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 11) (Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Newport etc.) Regulations 2020
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Part 2A of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 enables the Welsh Ministers, by regulations, to make provision for the purpose of preventing, protecting against, controlling or providing a public health response to the incidence or spread of infection or contamination in Wales.
These Regulations are made in response to the serious and imminent threat to public health which is posed by the incidence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Wales.
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (the “principal Regulations”). The amendments—
designate Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, and Merthyr Tydfil County Boroughs, and the City and County Borough of Newport, as local health protection areas that are subject to specific restrictions and requirements;
provide that one of the requirements is that licensed premises must close at 11 p.m. in all local health protection areas (including Caerphilly County Borough);
provide that it is a reasonable excuse for persons living in accommodation where certain facilities are shared to gather indoors as if they were a single household (this includes houses in multiple occupation and student accommodation);
make minor amendments to the Welsh language text of regulation 14C of the principal Regulations.
The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared as to the likely cost and benefit of complying with these Regulations.