The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Extended households E+W

3.—(1) Up to 3 households may agree to be treated as an extended household.

(2) In addition to the up to 3 households who may agree to be treated as an extended household under sub-paragraph (1), 1 [F1 well-being needs] household may also agree to be treated as part of that extended household.

(3) To agree to be treated as an extended household, all F2 ... members of the households must agree.

(4) A household may only agree to be treated as being in 1 extended household [F3 at any one time].

(5) Where households have agreed to be treated as an extended household under—

(a) paragraph 3 of Schedule 2,

(b) paragraph 3 of Schedule 3, or

[F4 (ba) paragraph 4 of Schedule 3A,]

(c) paragraph 3 of Schedule 4,

those households are to be treated as having agreed to be treated as an extended household under this paragraph.

(6) A household ceases to be treated as [F5 part of] an extended household if any F6 ... member of the household ceases to agree to be treated as [F5 part of] the extended household.

[F7 (6A) Sub-paragraph (6B) applies where—

(a) a person who would be, or is, a member of an extended household is a child, and

(b) a person who has parental responsibility for the child (“P”) is a member of the child’s household.

(6B) Where this sub-paragraph applies—

(a) the agreement required by sub-paragraph (3) is to be given by P (and not the child), and

(b) a household ceases to be treated as part of an extended household in accordance with sub-paragraph (6) if P ceases to agree to be treated as part of the extended household (whether or not the child also ceases to agree).]

(7) If a household ceases to be treated as [F8 part of] an extended household, the household may not agree to be treated as [F8 part of] an extended household with any other household [F9 unless a period of at least 10 days has expired since any member of the household last participated in a gathering with any member of another household in reliance on being treated as part of an extended household with that household].

(8) In this Schedule, references to an extended household are references to an extended household formed under or by virtue of this paragraph.

[F10 (9) In this paragraph, “well-being needs household” means—

(a) a single adult household;

(b) a household comprising of 1 or more children and no adults.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(2) substituted (13.3.2021 immediately before the start of the day) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/307), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)(i)

F2 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(3) omitted (13.3.2021 immediately before the start of the day) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/307), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)(ii)

F3 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(4) inserted (30.1.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/103), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(a)

F4 Sch. 1 para. 3(5)(ba) inserted (26.4.2021 immediately before the start of the day) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 8) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/502), regs. 1(2), 2(12)(c)

F5 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(6) substituted (30.1.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/103), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(b)

F6 Word in Sch. 1 para. 3(6) omitted (13.3.2021 immediately before the start of the day) by virtue of The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/307), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)(iii)

F7 Sch. 1 para. 3(6A)(6B) inserted (13.3.2021 immediately before the start of the day) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/307), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)(iv)

F8 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(7) substituted (30.1.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/103), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(c)(i)

F9 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(7) inserted (30.1.2021) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/103), regs. 1(2), 2(3)(c)(ii)

F10 Sch. 1 para. 3(9) inserted (13.3.2021 immediately before the start of the day) by The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/307), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)(v)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 20.12.2020, see reg. 1(3)