Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 3) (Wales) Regulations 2020

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Introduction

PART 1
Introduction

1 Title, application and coming into force

2 Expiry

PART 2
Restrictions on movement and gathering with others

3 Requirement to stay at home

4 Requirement not to gather with other people

5 Restriction on travelling into Wales

6 Restriction on attending school

7 Restriction on attending further education

8 Interpretation of regulations 6 and 7

9 Prohibition on organising certain unlicensed music events

PART 3
Restrictions on businesses and services whose premises are ordinarily open to the public

CHAPTER 1 Overview

10 References to “premises” and overview

CHAPTER 2 Businesses and services whose premises must be closed

11 Closure of premises used by certain businesses and services

CHAPTER 3 Business and services whose premises must be closed but to which limited access may be allowed

12 Closure of bars and restaurants etc.

13 Closure of holiday accommodation

14 Closure of places of worship, community centres and crematoriums

CHAPTER 4 Business and services whose premises may be open

15 Open premises

CHAPTER 5 Mixed businesses

16 Mixed businesses

PART 4
Minimising risk of exposure to coronavirus

17 Requirement to take preventative measures on regulated premises to minimise risk

18 Requirement to wear face covering on public transport

19 Requirement to wear face covering in certain indoor public places

20 Guidance on minimising exposure

PART 5
Enforcement

21 Enforcement officers

22 Enforcement of requirement to take preventative measures

23 Compliance notices

24 Powers of removal and dispersal

25 Enforcement of face covering requirements

26 Enforcement: children

27 Power of entry

28 Enforcement: supplemental provision

PART 6
Offences and penalties

29 Offences and penalties

30 Offences committed by bodies corporate etc.

31 Fixed penalty notices

32 Prosecutions

PART 7
General

33 Interpretation

34 Revocation

35 Consequential amendment

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Businesses and services whose premises are subject to restrictions or closure

SCHEDULE 2 Enforcement of requirement to take preventative measures on regulated premises

SCHEDULE 3 Form of sign to accompany premises improvement notice or premises closure notice

Signature

Explanatory note

PART 5Enforcement

Powers of removal and dispersal24.

(1)

Where an enforcement officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person (“P”) is contravening regulation 3(1), the officer may—

(a)

direct P to return to the place where P is living;

(b)

remove P to that place.

(2)

Where an enforcement officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that people are gathered together in contravention of regulation 4(1), the officer may—

(a)

direct the gathering to disperse;

(b)

direct any person in the gathering to return to the place where they are living;

(c)

remove any person in the gathering to the place where they are living.

(3)

Where an enforcement officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person (“P”) is contravening regulation 5(1), the officer may direct P to leave Wales.

(4)

When exercising the power in paragraph (1), (2) or (3), an enforcement officer may direct a person to follow such instructions as the officer considers necessary.

(5)

Where an enforcement officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person (“P”) is contravening, or is about to contravene, regulation 9(1), the officer may—

(a)

direct P to follow such instructions as the officer considers necessary in order to stop or prevent the contravention;

(b)

remove P from the location or proposed location of the event which the officer suspects is being, or is about to be, organised in contravention of regulation 9(1).