These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (“the principal Regulations”).

They provide that a person responsible for premises which cease to operate as a nightclub, dance hall or discotheque does not commit a licensing offence, where that person does so to prevent the application of the requirements of regulation 4C(1) of the principal Regulations, under which such premises may not open under certain circumstances from 5.00 a.m. on 27 December 2021.