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 2Restrictions on movement and gathering with others

Restriction on travelling into Wales5.

(1)

No person living outside Wales may, without a reasonable excuse, enter or remain in Wales.

(2)

A reasonable excuse includes the need to do the following in Wales—

(a)

obtain—

(i)

food and medical supplies for those in the same household (including animals in the household) or for vulnerable persons;

(ii)

supplies for the essential upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household, or the household of a vulnerable person;

(b)

obtain money from or deposit money with any business or service listed in paragraph 44 or 45 of Part 3 of Schedule 1;

(c)

obtain or provide medical assistance, including accessing any of the services referred to in paragraph 47 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 or accessing veterinary services;

(d)

provide, receive or access care or assistance, including childcare or relevant personal care within the meaning of paragraph 7(3B) of Schedule 4 to the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, where the person receiving the care is a vulnerable person;

(e)

work or provide voluntary or charitable services where it is not reasonably practicable to carry out the work or provide the service from outside Wales;

(f)

where the person is an elite athlete, train and prepare for, and compete in, a specified sporting event;

(g)

provide coaching and other support to an elite athlete in connection with a specified sporting event;

(h)

officiate at or otherwise be involved in running a specified sporting event;

(i)

provide or receive emergency assistance;

(j)

attend a solemnization of a marriage or formation of a civil partnership—

(i)

as a party to the marriage or civil partnership,

(ii)

if invited to attend, or

(iii)

as the carer of a person attending;

(k)

attend a funeral—

(i)

as a person responsible for arranging the funeral,

(ii)

if invited by a person responsible for arranging the funeral, or

(iii)

as the carer of a person attending;

(l)

meet a legal obligation, including attending court or satisfying bail conditions, or to participate in legal proceedings;

(m)

access or receive public services;

(n)

access or receive educational services, subject to regulations 6 and 7;

(o)

in relation to children who do not live in the same household as their parents, or one of their parents, continue existing arrangements for access to, and contact between, parents and children, and for the purposes of this paragraph, “parent” includes a person who is not a parent of the child, but who has parental responsibility for, or who has care of, the child;

(p)

move home;

(q)

avoid injury or illness or escape a risk of harm;

(r)

travel to reach a place outside Wales.

(3)

For the purposes of paragraph (1), it is not a reasonable excuse for a person to enter, or remain in, Wales to do anything if it would be reasonably practicable for the person to do that thing outside Wales.