Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 17) 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—
allow a household made up of no more than one adult (whether or not children also live in the household) living in a local health protection area and another household that also lives in the area, to form an extended household temporarily;
permit skating rinks to open, but measures must be taken to minimise the risk of exposure to coronavirus on the premises (in accordance with regulation 12 of the principal Regulations);
make minor consequential amendments.
A household may form a temporary extended household in accordance with the amendment made by these Regulations whether or not it had previously formed an extended household (with up to three other households) before its area became a local health protection area.
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.