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

PART 1
Introduction

1 Title, application and coming into force

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

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

Explanatory note

Which version?
Latest available (Revised)
Original (As enacted)

PART 6Offences and penalties

Offences and penalties29.

(1)

A person who—

(a)

without reasonable excuse, contravenes a requirement in regulation 9(1), 11(1), 12(1), 13(1), 14(1) or 15(3), or

(b)

contravenes a requirement in regulation 3(1), 4(1), 5(1), 18(1) or 19(1)

commits an offence.

(2)

A person who obstructs, without reasonable excuse, any person carrying out a function under these Regulations commits an offence.

(3)

A person who—

(a)

without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 2,

(b)

contravenes paragraph 3(2) of that Schedule, or

(c)

without reasonable excuse, removes, obscures or damages a notice or sign required to be displayed under paragraph 7(2) of that Schedule,

commits an offence.

(4)

A person who, without reasonable excuse—

(a)

contravenes a direction given—

(i)

by an enforcement officer under Part 5, or

(ii)

by the operator of a public transport service, an employee of the operator, or a person authorised by the operator, under regulation 25(2), or

(b)

fails to comply with a compliance notice given by an enforcement officer under regulation 23(1),

commits an offence.

(5)

An offence under these Regulations is punishable on summary conviction by a fine.

(6)

Section 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 198412 applies in relation to an offence under this regulation as if the reasons in subsection (5) included—

(a)

to maintain public health;

(b)

to maintain public order.