(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”).
Regulations 3 to 5, 6(2) and 7(4)(a)(ii) and (b) make amendments to include organised picketing to the purposes for which persons are permitted to gather in outdoor public places in Level 0 to 4 areas. Regulations 6(3), 7(5)(a)(ii) and (c) and 7(6)(a)(ii) and (b) include organised picketing as a reasonable excuse for leaving your home in a Level 4 area and travelling into and out of Level 3 and 4 areas.
Regulation 7 amends provisions in schedule 5 of the Local Levels Regulations (level 4 restrictions) in relation to places of worship. Regulation 7(2) omits paragraph 1A of the schedule (requirement to close places of worship). Regulation 7(3) and (4)(a)(i) amends the Local Levels Regulations to add attending a place of worship to the purposes for which persons are permitted to gather in indoor and outdoor public places in a Level 4 area. Regulation 7(5)(a)(i) amends paragraph 16(2) of the Local Levels Regulations to add attending a person's usual place of worship to the examples of reasonable excuses for entering a Level 4 area. Regulation 7(6)(a)(i) amends paragraph 18(2) of the Local Levels Regulations to add attending a place of worship to the examples of reasonable excuses for leaving home in a Level 4 area.
Regulation 8 amends the table at schedule 6 of the Local Levels Regulations, to apply level 3 restrictions and requirements to Na h-Eileanan Siar.