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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 6) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021.
(2) These Regulations apart from Regulation 4 come into operation on 25 March 2021.
(3) Regulation 4 comes into operation on 1 April 2021.
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The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 are amended in accordance with these Regulations.
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(1) In Regulation 3, for “18 March” substitute “15 April”.
(2) In Regulation 5B(2) for “Subject to paragraph (4), a person” substitute “A person”.
(3) In Regulation 5B(3) for “Subject to paragraph (4), a person” substitute “A person”.
(4) In Regulation 5B omit paragraph (4).
(5) In Regulation 8(4)(a), for “regulation 4, 4E, or 5A(1)” substitute “Regulation 4, 4B, 4D, 4DA, 4DB, 4DC, 4DD, 4DE, 4E, or 5A(1)”.
(6) In Regulation 9(6)(a), for “regulation 4, 4E, or 5A(1)” substitute “Regulation 4, 4B, 4D, 4DA, 4DB, 4DC, 4DD, 4DE, 4E, or 5A(1)”.
(7) Omit Regulation 15.
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(1) In Regulation 4B(2)(a), after “electrical goods” insert “, or which is a garden centre or a plant nursery”.
(2) In Regulation 5B(3)(c), for “does not exceed two” substitute “does not exceed ten persons from no more than two households”.
(3) In Regulation 6(1), for “(2) to (5) a person shall not participate in an indoor or outdoor gathering in a private dwelling which consists of persons from—” substitute “(1A) to (5) a person shall not participate at a private dwelling in a gathering—”.
(4) In Regulation 6(1)(a), before “more than one household” insert “indoors which consists of”.
(5) For Regulation 6(1)(b) substitute “(b) outdoors which consists of more than six persons or persons from more than two households.”
(6) After Regulation 6(1) insert—“
(1A) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a gathering indoors or outdoors which consists of one household and its linked household, provided that such a gathering does not consist of more than 10 persons.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health at 12.00 noon on 24 March 2021
(L.S.)Robin Swann
Minister of Health
