The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

Termination directions

2.  In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations, for paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4) The Welsh Ministers may, if they consider it appropriate to do so having regard to the need to prevent, protect against, control or provide a public health response to the incidence or spread of infection in Wales with the coronavirus, publish a direction terminating a requirement or restriction in relation to—

(a) a specified business or service or a specified description of business or service;

(b) a specified description of persons;

(c) a specified part of Wales.

(4A) The termination of a restriction or requirement by a direction does not affect—

(a) any punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed under these Regulations before the restriction or requirement is terminated,

(b) any fixed penalty notice issued under regulation 13 in relation to conduct occurring before the restriction or requirement is terminated, or

(c) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of—

(i) any such offence or conduct, or

(ii) any alleged offence under these Regulations that is alleged to have been committed before the restriction or requirement is terminated,

and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such punishment or penalty may be imposed, as if the termination had not occurred.”