Covid 19 - What you need to know - 3 Tier Regulations published

The Government have this afternoon published regulations to implement the new system of three tiers in England from 2nd December.

The new regulations will be the subject of a vote in Parliament tomorrow, if approved they will remain until 3rd February 2021 (they are due to expire on 2nd February).  

At present the contentious issues of which localities will be placed into which tiers remains unchanged from the Government’s initial announcement and has since been the source of consternation amongst many MPs.

The tier regulations can be found here.

In addition new regulations have been published concerning powers given to Local Authorities to enforce compliance with the new measures, these regulations can be found here.

The new regulations create new notices:

• Coronavirus Improvement Notices (CIN) – requiring premises deemed to be in contravention of the relevant statutory notice to take necessary and proportionate action to ensure that the contravention is, or contraventions are, ended or remedied.

• Coronavirus Immediate Restriction Notices (CIRN) – These are where the officer is of the opinion that the person is contravening one or more of the relevant statutory provisions in circumstances that make it likely that the contravention or contraventions will continue or be repeated and that contravention or those contraventions involve, or would involve if continued or repeated, a risk of exposure to coronavirus. The issued notice may require either or both of the following;
• the closure of the premises, or part of the premises; 
• that the person to whom the notice is issued must end or remedy the contravention or contraventions or, as the case may be, that that person must ensure that the contravention or contraventions will not be repeated or continued (or both).
• Coronavirus Restriction Notices – Which is an escalation from the above CIN for premises which have not complied, in the opinion of the office. Again, the issued notice may require either or both of the following;
• the closure of the premises, or part of the premises; 
• that the person to whom the notice is issued must end or remedy the contravention or contraventions or, as the case may be, that that person must ensure that the contravention or contraventions will not be repeated or continued (or both).