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Regulations made by the Scottish Ministers and laid before the Scottish Parliament under paragraph 6(3) of schedule 19 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament within 28 days beginning with the day on which the Regulations were made, not taking into account any period of dissolution or recess for more than 4 days.
Scottish Statutory Instruments
Public Health
Made
at 1.20 p.m. on 21st May 2021
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
at 2.45 p.m. on 21st May 2021
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 1(1) of schedule 19 of the Coronavirus Act 2020( 1) (“the Act”) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
These Regulations are made in response to the serious and imminent threat to public health which is posed by the incidence and spread of coronavirus in Scotland.
The Scottish Ministers consider that the restrictions and requirements imposed by these Regulations are proportionate to what they seek to achieve, which is a public health response to that threat.
In accordance with paragraph 6(2) and (3) of schedule 19 of the Act, the Scottish Ministers are of the opinion that, by reason of urgency, it is necessary to make these Regulations without a draft having been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 24) Regulations 2021.
(2) Except regulation 4, these Regulations come into force on 22 May 2021.
(3) Regulation 4 comes into force on 24 May 2021.
2. The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020( 2) are amended as follows.
3. In the table in schedule 6 (areas)( 3) omit entry 8 (Moray local government area).
4. In paragraph 4 of schedule 7A (restrictions on leaving or entering Scotland)( 4), after sub-paragraph (a) insert—
“(b) in England, the areas of—
(i) Bedford Borough Council,
(ii) Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council,
(iii) Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council. ”.
JOHN SWINNEY
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
At 1.20 p.m. on 21st May 2021
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (“the Local Levels Regulations”).
Regulation 3 amends schedule 6 of the Local Levels Regulations to the effect that, from 22 May 2021, Level 2 restrictions apply in the Moray local government area.
Regulation 4 amends schedule 7A of the Local Levels Regulations to the effect that, from 24 May 2021, the following places in England are added to the list of places in respect of which the restrictions set out in schedule 7A apply: the area of Bedford Borough Council, the area of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council and the area of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council.
S.S.I. 2020/344, last amended by S.S.I. 2021/209.
The table in schedule 6 was substituted by S.S.I. 2021/209.
Schedule 7A was inserted by S.S.I. 2020/389. Paragraph 4 of schedule 7A was substituted by S.S.I. 2021/193.