These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (“the Local Levels Regulations”). These Regulations come into force on 26 December 2020.

Regulations 3 and 4 amend schedule 7A of the Local Levels Regulations so that the restrictions in relation to the common travel area apply to the whole of the Republic of Ireland rather than just County Donegal.

Regulations 5 and 6 amend schedule 5 of the Local Levels Regulations to alter premises which are required to close in a Level 4 area. Regulation 5 adds the following to the definition of a “listed business” in paragraph 1 of schedule 5: travel agencies, tanning salons or premises which operate self-tanning machines or spray-tan booths, and certain showrooms such as kitchen, bathroom, furniture or glazing showrooms.

Regulation 6 alters the list of retail premises that are exempt from the closure requirements in paragraph 2 of schedule 5. It omits garden centres and plant nurseries from that list and replaces “homeware, building supplies and hardware stores” with “building merchants and suppliers of products and tools used in building work and repairs”.

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared. Copies may be obtained online at www.legislation.gov.uk.