Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2020

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 20202.

(1)

The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 20202 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 12—

(a)

in the words at the beginning of paragraph (2), after “premises,” insert “or the spread of coronavirus by those who have been at the premises”;

(b)

at the end of paragraph (2A), insert—

“(c)

collecting contact information from each person at the premises or, in relation to persons from the same household, from one of them, and retaining it for 21 days for the purpose of providing it to the Welsh Ministers or to a public health officer upon either’s request.”;

(c)

after paragraph (4), insert—

“(5)

In this regulation—

(a)

“contact information”, in relation to a person at the premises, means the person’s name and information sufficient to enable the person to be contacted, to inform them that they may have been exposed to coronavirus at the premises (including a telephone number and the date and time at which the person was at the premises);

(b)

“public health officer” has the same meaning as in paragraph 3(2)(c) of Schedule 21 to the Coronavirus Act 20203.”.

(3)

In regulation 20—

(a)

omit paragraph (3A);

(b)

in paragraph (4), for “Any other” substitute “An”.

(4)

In Schedule 5, in paragraph 5(6), for “compensate the person responsible for the premises” substitute “pay compensation”.