Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 1008
Public Health, England
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Obligations of F1... Undertakings) (England) Regulations 2020
Approved by both Houses of Parliament
Made
at 2.44 p.m. on 17th September 2020
Laid before Parliament
at 4.45 p.m. on 17th September 2020
Coming into force
18th September 2020
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45C(1), (3)(c), 45F(2) and 45P of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 M1.
These Regulations are made in response to the serious and imminent threat to public health which is posed by the incidence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in England.
The Secretary of State considers 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 section 45R of that Act the Secretary of State is of the opinion that, by reason of urgency, it is necessary to make this instrument without a draft having been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
Textual Amendments
F1Regulations: word in title omitted (28.9.2020) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Obligations of Undertakings) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1046), reg. 2(2)
Marginal Citations
M11984 c. 22. Part 2A was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14).