The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place and on Public Transport) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
| Year | 2020 |
2020 No. 906
Public Health, England
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place and on Public Transport) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Made 26th August 2020
Laid before Parliament 27th August 2020
Coming into force 28th August 2020
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45C(1), (3)(c), (4)(d), 45F(2) and 45P of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 19841.
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 requirements and restrictions imposed by the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 20202and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) Regulations 20203, as amended 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.
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place and on Public Transport) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 28th August 2020.
Amendment of regulation 7 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020
2. In regulation 7 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020—
(a) in paragraph (6), for “paragraph (7)” substitute “paragraphs (7) and (7A)”;
(b) after paragraph (7), insert—
“7A. But if the person to whom the fixed penalty notice is given has already received a relevant fixed penalty notice, paragraph (7) does not apply and the amount specified as the fixed penalty is to be—
(a) in the case of the second fixed penalty notice received, £200;
(b) in the case of the third fixed penalty notice received, £400;
(c) in the case of the fourth fixed penalty notice received, £800;
(d) in the case of the fifth fixed penalty notice received, £1,600;
(e) in the case of the sixth...
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