(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020.
Regulation 3 reduces the maximum number who can participate in an outdoor or indoor gathering not at a private dwelling from thirty people to fifteen people (subject to exemption). It also provides that the restriction on gatherings shall not apply to a funeral, but that those involved in a funeral shall comply with the Departmental guidance.
Regulation 4 reduces the maximum number who can participate in an outdoor gathering at a private dwelling from thirty people to fifteen people and in an indoor gathering in a private dwelling from ten people in four households to six people in two households. It provides also that up to ten people may attend a wedding or civil partnership ceremony indoors at a private dwelling where one of the participants is terminally ill; and that the restrictions in relation to private dwellings do not apply to funerals or wakes but that those involved must comply with Departmental guidance.
No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.