Welsh Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 1304 (W. 334)

Public Health, Wales

The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 20) Regulations 2021

Made

23 November 2021

Coming into force

25 November 2021

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 45C(1) and (3)(c) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(1).

In accordance with section 45Q(4)(2) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of Senedd Cymru.

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.

The Welsh Ministers consider that restrictions and requirements imposed by these Regulations are proportionate to what they seek to achieve, which is a public health response to that threat.

(1)

1984 c. 22. Section 45C was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14). The functions under this section are conferred on “the appropriate Minister”. Under section 45T(6) of the 1984 Act the appropriate Minister, as respects Wales, is the Welsh Ministers.

(2)

Section 45Q was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.