Legislation – The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2020

“Extended households2A.

(1)

Up to four households may agree to be treated as an extended household for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2)

To agree to be treated as an extended household, all of the adults of the households in question must agree.

(3)

Where households agree to be treated as an extended household, any reference in these Regulations (other than in this regulation) to a “household” is to be read as including the households that have so agreed.

(4)

A household may only agree to be treated as being in one extended household.

(5)

A household ceases to be treated as being in an extended household if any adult in the household ceases to agree to be treated as being in the extended household.

(6)

If a household ceases to be treated as being in an extended household, the household may not agree to be treated as being in an extended household with any other household.

(7)

Paragraph (8) applies where two households—

(a)

agreed to be treated as a single (extended) household for the purposes of these Regulations before 22 August 2020, or

(b)

were treated as having done so in accordance with regulation 2(7) of these Regulations before that date.

(8)

Where this paragraph applies, the households—

(a)

are to be treated as having agreed to be treated as an extended household in accordance with this regulation, and

(b)

may agree to be treated as an extended household with up to two more households in accordance with this regulation.”

“(hza)

participate in a gathering of no more than 30 people at open premises to—

(i)

celebrate a solemnization of a marriage or formation of a civil partnership that takes place on or after 22 August 2020,

(ii)

celebrate the life of a deceased person whose funeral is held on or after 22 August 2020;”.

“(3)

But the restriction in paragraph (1) does not apply to an organised outdoor event—

(a)

authorised in writing by the Welsh Ministers,

(b)

at which no more than 100 people are in attendance (not including persons working, or providing voluntary services, at the event), and

(c)

which is held in accordance with any conditions specified in writing by the Welsh Ministers.

(4)

For the purposes of paragraph (3)(a), an event is an “organised outdoor event” if—

(a)

it takes place outdoors,

(b)

it is organised by—

(i)

a business,

(ii)

a public body or a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution,

(iii)

a club or political organisation, or

(iv)

the national governing body of a sport or other activity, and

(c)

the person organising it has—

(i)

carried out a risk assessment which would satisfy the requirements of regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 M2, whether or not the person is subject to those Regulations, and

(ii)

complied with the requirements of regulations 12(2) and 13(1).

(5)

For the purposes of paragraph (4)(c)—

(a)

regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 applies as if the event were an undertaking conducted by the person organising it;

(b)

regulation 12(2) of these Regulations applies as if the place where the event takes place were open premises for which the person organising the event is responsible.”