(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Part 2A of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 enables the Welsh Ministers, by regulations, to make provision for the purpose of preventing, protecting against, controlling or providing a public health response to the incidence or spread of infection or contamination in Wales.
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 Wales.
These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (the “principal Regulations”). The amendments—
(a)designate Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough as a local health protection area that is subject to specific restrictions and requirements;
(b)make minor amendments, including amendments to the provisions on the reasonable excuse to gather indoors and to enter or leave a local health protection area, intended to clarify that donating blood and similar procedures fall within the reasonable excuse that exists to obtain or provide medical assistance, which itself includes accessing health services.
The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared as to the likely cost and benefit of complying with these Regulations.