# United Kingdom legislation connected with the COVID-19 pandemic

This article contains a list of primary and secondary legislation enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd and the Northern Ireland Assembly in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Primary legislation

    As of 9 August 2020
| Act | Chapter | Royal Assent | Detail |
| Contingencies Fund Act 2020 | 2020 c.6 | 25 March 2020 | To increase the maximum capital of the United Kingdom's contingency fund in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Coronavirus Act 2020 | 2020 c.7 | 25 March 2020 | To grant a range of emergency powers in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 | 2020 asp 7 | 6 April 2020 | To grant a range of emergency powers in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Coronavirus (Scotland) (No.2) Act 2020 | 2020 asp 10 | 26 May 2020 | To grant a range of emergency powers in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 | 2020 c.12 | 25 June 2020 | To provide for changes to corporate insolvency procedures in the UK and to relax certain company law regulations. |
| Stamp Duty Land Tax (Temporary Relief) Act 2020 | 2020 c.15 | 22 July 2020 | To temporarily cut Stamp Duty Land Tax on residential properties to stimulate the housing market. |
| Business and Planning Act 2020 | 2020 c.16 | 22 July 2020 | To provide for a range of measures to assist businesses operating during the pandemic. Primarily to facilitate the Bounce Back Loan scheme, make changes to licensing laws, modifications to planning legislation and relaxations of vehicle licensing rules. |
| Welsh Elections (Coronavirus) Act 2021 | 2021 asc 2 | 16 March 2021 | To provide for a range of measures for the 2021 Senedd Election. |
| Scottish General Election (Coronavirus) Act 2021 | 2021 asp 5 | 29 January 2021 | To provide for a range of measures for the 2021 Scottish Parliament Election. |
| Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Act 2021 | 2021 asp 19 | 4 August 2021 | To extending the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 and the Coronavirus (Scotland) (No. 2) Act 2020. |
| Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Act 2021 | 2021 c. 34 | 15 December 2021 | To clarify circumstances in which the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic can and cannot be considered when deciding on the rateable value of a property on the 2017 rating list; and making it easier to investigate the conduct of directors of companies that have been dissolved. |
| Coronavirus (Discretionary Compensation for Self-isolation) (Scotland) Act 2022 | 2022 asp 2 | 23 March 2022 | To make compensation for self-isolation by health boards up to the discretion by the health board, rather than mandatory. |
| Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022 | 2022 c. 12 | 24 March 2022 | Establishing a new binding arbitration process to help landlords and tenants agree a resolution of Covid-related rent debts. |
| Non-domestic Rates Valuations (Coronavirus) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 | 2022 c. 12 (N.I.) | 30th March 2022 | |
| Non-Domestic Rates (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Act 2022 | 2022 asp 7 | 28 July 2022 | To delay business rates, and applying full business rates to private schools. |
| Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022 | 2022 asp 8 | 10 August 2022 | To extend emergency powers granted during the Covid pandemic required landlords to seek approval for evictions from a tribunal |

## Secondary legislation in England

    As of 18 January 2021
| Regulation | SI Number | Date laid before Parliament | Detail |
| The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.59 | 28 January 2020 | Designates the Coronavirus disease 2019 as a disease for which no charge is to be made for treatment for overseas visitors. |
| Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.129 | 10 February 2020 | Enables a number of public health measures to be taken to reduce the potential public health risks that might arise from COVID-19. |
| Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.237 | 6 March 2020 | Designates COVID-19 as a notifiable disease under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010. |
| The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Coronavirus Disease) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.289 | 12 March 2020 | To provide additional support for individuals claiming employment and support allowance or universal credit and to remove the need for face to face contact where individuals are self-isolating. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.287 | 12 March 2020 | To treat any person who is self-isolating as a result of COVID-19 as being incapable of working and eligible for Statutory Sick Pay. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.304 | 16 March 2020 | To treat any person who is isolating themselves from others in accordance with guidance published on 12 March 2020 as being incapable of working and eligible for statutory sick pay. |
| The Single Use Carrier Bags Charges (England) (Amendment) Order 2020 | 2020 No.324 | 20 March 2020 | To remove the requirement to charge for single use carrier bags in respect of bags intended to be used to carry goods purchased for home delivery as part of an online grocery delivery service. |
| The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Exemption) (Amendment) Order 2020 | 2020 No.322 | 20 March 2020 | The COVID Corporate Financing Facility was exempted from the general prohibition for persons to carry out regulated activities under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. |
| Health Protection (Coronavirus, Business Closure) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.327 | 23 March 2020 | Provided for the closure of in England of businesses selling food and drink for consumption on the premises, as well as a range of other businesses such as nightclubs and indoor leisure centres where a high risk of infection could be expected. |
| The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2020 | 2020 No.330 | 23 March 2020 | Provided for pubs, cafes and restaurants to act as takeaways for a temporary period. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.350 | 26 March 2020 | Provided for an extensive lockdown of businesses in England and for restrictions on the movement of people other than where there was a reasonable excuse. |
| The National Health Service (Amendments Relating to the Provision of Primary Care Services During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.351 | 26 March 2020 | Various measures to prioritise the delivery of particular NHS services, to provide for greater flexibility in the opening hours and operations of GP practices and pharmacies. |
| The Street and Road Works (Amendments Relating to Electronic Communications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.346 | 26 March 2020 | To delay the date on which the Street and Road Works (Amendments Relating to Electronic Communications) (England) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/122) come into effect by three months to help deal with the impact of COVID-19. |
| The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (General Levy) (Revocation) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.355 | 27 March 2020 | To revoke the increase in the general levy for pensions schemes due to the significant uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic on business. |
| The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.359 | 27 March 2020 | To remove the charge for obtaining a criminal record certificate for retired health and social care practitioners who were being requested to return to work to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Investigatory Powers (Temporary Judicial Commissioners and Modification of Time Limits) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.360 | 27 March 2020 | To allow the Investigatory Powers Commissioner to appoint temporary Judicial Commissioners which would not normally be available under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 to alleviate the strain placed by COVID-19 on the warrantry process. |
| The Working Time (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.365 | 27 March 2020 | To amend the Working Time Regulations 1998 to ensure that workers for whom it is not reasonably practicable to take holidays due to the pandemic can carry their holiday into the following two years. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Waiting Days and General Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.374 | 27 March 2020 | To suspend the rule which would ordinarily prevent Statutory Sick Pay for the first three qualifying days of incapacity to ensure that statutory sick pay can be paid from the first day of absence and treats any person staying at home due to COVID-19 (or members of their household) as being incapable of work. |
| Competition Act 1998 (Health Services for Patients in England) (Coronavirus) (Public Policy Exclusion) Order 2020 | 2020 No.368 | 27 March 2020 | To exclude certain agreements between healthcare providers and between healthcare providers and the NHS from the prohibition on anti-competitive behaviour under the Competition Act 1998. |
| The Competition Act 1998 (Groceries) (Coronavirus) (Public Policy Exclusion) Order 2020 | 2020 No.369 | 27 March 2020 | To exclude certain agreements between grocery stores (primarily supermarkets) and associated suppliers from the prohibition on anti-competitive behaviour under the Competition Act 1998. |
| The Competition Act 1998 (Solent Maritime Crossings) (Coronavirus) (Public Policy Exclusion) Order 2020 | 2020 No.370 | 27 March 2020 | To exclude certain agreements between operators of ferries across the Solent between England and the Isle of Wight from the prohibition on anti-competitive behaviour under the Competition Act 1998. |
| The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.371 | 27 March 2020 | To provide for a temporary increase in the Universal Credit standard allowances, relax the application of the minimum income floor for self-employed universal credit claimants, increase local housing authority rates for private renters claiming housing benefits, disapplying the requirement to actively seek work to obtain jobseeker's allowance and others. |
| The Nursing and Midwifery Council (Emergency Procedures) (Amendment) Rules 2020 Order of Council 2020 | 2020 No.364 | 30 March 2020 | To allow the Nursing and Midwifery Council to amend its rules on lapse of registration and fitness to practice in order to ensure that processes can continue during the pandemic. |
| The Feed-in Tariffs (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.375 | 30 March 2020 | To provide for additional time for small-scale renewable electricity generation to apply for accreditation under the feed-in tariffs scheme. |
| The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.382 | 30 March 2020 | To exclude cars, light commercial vehicles and motor cycles from the requirement to obtain a MOT test and hold a test certificate for one of period of six months. |
| The Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.391 | 1 April 2020 | In accordance with provisions set out in the Coronavirus Act 2020, powers were exercised by the Secretary of State to extend the deadline for the retention of fingerprints and DNA profiles for a period of up to six months. |
| The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.392 | 2 April 2020 | To enable local authorities and police and crime panels to hold meetings remotely. |
| The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Amendment Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.397 | 3 April 2020 | To provide that the start date for the temporary increase in universal credit and increase to local housing allowance originally included in the Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Regulations 2020 (2020 No.371) will be brought forward to 6 April 2020. |
| The Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.395 | 6 April 2020 | To postpone local elections that were scheduled to take place between 15 March 2020 and 5 May 2021 until 6 May 2021. |
| The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.400 | 6 April 2020 | To make changes to The Prison Rules 1999 to all for the release of certain prisoners temporarily to help manage the incidence or transmission of coronavirus. |
| The Offender Management Act 2007 (Coronavirus) (Approved Premises) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.401 | 6 April 2020 | To allow for prisoners released under The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020 (2020 No.400) to be accommodated in approved premises. |
| The Accounts and Audit (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.404 | 7 April 2020 | To amend the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 by delaying the dates on which certain public and local bodies must publish annual accounts to 30 November 2020. |
| The Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.405 | 7 April 2020 | To increase the payments from the Social Fund to eligible claimants for arranging a funeral from £700 to £1,000. |
| The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Prisoners) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.409 | 7 April 2020 | To provide access to means-tested benefits for individuals on temporary release from a prison in England and Wales due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.411 | 8 April 2020 | To allow doctors who are not general practitioners to provide primary care where they are employed or registered with certain designated bodies. |
| The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Coronavirus) (England) (Amendment) Order 2020 | 2020 No.412 | 8 April 2020 | To create a new permitted development right to allow local authorities and health service bodies to carry out developments which are required to respond to the spread of coronavirus without a requirement to submit a planning application. |
| The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.415 | 9 April 2020 | To amend the Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993 to allow for a hearing before the Employment Appeal Tribunal to be conducted by means of electronic communication. |
| The Tribunal Procedure (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020 | 2020. No.416 | 9 April 2020 | To amend various tribunal procedures to allow for the first-tier tribunal and the upper tribunal to conduct remote hearings and for these remote hearings to be held in private if it is not practicable for the hearing to be broadcast. |
| The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 | 2020. No.417 | 9 April 2020 | To amend the Criminal Procedure Rules to remove inconsistencies with the provisions of the Coronavirus Act 2020. |
| The Electronic Monitoring (Responsible Persons) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Order 2020 | 2020 No.418 | 9 April 2020 | To allow Attenti EM UK Ltd to be a person responsible for the electronic monitoring of prisoners to provide for the increased demand for such monitoring as a result of the temporary release of prisoners during the pandemic. |
| The Land Registration (Amendment) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.425 | 15 April 2020 | To allow HM Land Registry additional time for the registration of interests in land if the service is not able to operate normally. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.427 | 15 April 2020 | Amends the statutory sick pay regulations to provide that, a person who is considered to be at high risk from COVID-19 and has been advised to shield, is deemed to be incapable of work. |
| The Local Government (Coronavirus) (Structural Changes) (Consequential Amendments) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.426 | 15 April 2020 | To make changes to previous provisions providing for new unitary authorities in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire in light of the cancellation of elections due to take place in May 2020. |
| The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Regulated Activities) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.433 | 17 April 2020 | To provide that testing for coronavirus will not be treated as a regulated activity under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. |
| The Competition Act 1998 (Health Services for Patients in Wales) (Coronavirus) (Public Policy Exclusion) Order 2020 | 2020 No.435 | 20 April 2020 | To exclude certain agreements between independent healthcare providers and NHS bodies from the restriction on anti-competitive behaviour under the Competition Act 1998. |
| The Football Spectators (2020 UEFA European Championship Control Period) (Coronavirus) (Revocation) Order 2020 | 2020 No.432 | 21 April 2020 | Revokes the Football Spectators (2020 UEFA European Championship Control Period) Order (SI 2020 No.11) following the announced cancellation of UEFA Euro 2020. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.447 | 22 April 2020 | To make amendments to the original lockdown restrictions to correct certain errors and unintended consequences. Provided that leaving home to go to a bank or ATM or to attend a burial ground constituted a reasonable excuse. |
| The Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.448 | 22 April 2020 | To remove the requirement for offshore oil and gas developers from the requirement to make certain documents relating to environmental impacts available for public inspection at an address in the UK. |
| The Early Years Foundation Stage (Learning and Development and Welfare Requirements) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.444 | 23 April 2020 | To allow for the Secretary of State for Education to temporarily disapply or modify certain requirements of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage to allow providers of early years education to operate for children of key workers. |
| The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.445 | 23 April 2020 | To make amendments to a number of regulations relating to children's social care including the relaxation of a number of administrative and procedural requirements. |
| The School Admissions (England) (Coronavirus) (Appeals Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.446 | 23 April 2020 | To allow for appeals in respect of school admissions to continue by virtue of allowing smaller appeal panels to meet or by allowing appeals to be heard remotely. |
| The Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments and Rates Retention) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.449 | 23 April 2020 | To allow local authorities to defer payments due to central Government under the business rates retention scheme. To delay the date on which local authorities are required to submit end-of year calculations of the business rates retention. |
| The Maternity Allowance, Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, Statutory Shared Parental Pay and Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Normal Weekly Earnings etc.) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.450 | 24 April 2020 | To ensure that where an employee is furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme they retain their rights to Statutory Maternity Pay; Statutory Adoption Pay; Statutory Paternity Pay; Statutory Shared Parental Pay; Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay; and Maternity Allowance. |
| The Taking Control of Goods and Certification of Enforcement Agents (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.451 | 24 April 2020 | To prevent enforcement agencies from taking control of goods at residential premises or on highways during lockdown, to extend the period for taking control of goods by 12 months and to increase the amount of unpaid commercial rent that might be outstanding before commercial rent arrears recovery can take place. |
| The State Pension Credit (Coronavirus) (Electronic Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.456 | 27 April 2020 | To make provision for State Pension Credit to be claimed electronically. |
| The National Health Service (Quality Accounts) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.456 | 28 April 2020 | To suspend the requirement of providers of National Health Service services relating to obtaining assurance by other bodies of the quality accounts and publishing them for the year to 31 March 2020. |
| Misuse of Drugs (Coronavirus) (Amendments Relating to the Supply of Controlled Drugs During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.468 | 29 April 2020 | To allow pharmacists to supply certain medicines during the pandemic without a prescription where the patient has been receiving a controlled drug as part of an ongoing treatment. |
| The Value Added Tax (Zero Rate for Personal Protective Equipment) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.458 | 30 April 2020 | Introduces a temporary Value Added Tax relief for the supply of personal protective equipment by treating the supplies of such equipment as being zero rated. |
| The Value Added Tax (Extension of Zero-Rating to Electronically Supplied Books etc.) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.459 | 30 April 2020 | To extend the list of electronic versions of printed publications that will be treated as being zero rated for Value Added Tax purposes. |
| The Education (School Teachers’ Qualifications and Induction Arrangements) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.464 | 30 April 2020 | To allow for trainee teachers whose training has been interrupted by COVID-19 to be treated as having attained qualified teacher status. To allow for newly qualified teachers undertaking statutory induction to have their induction periods extended automatically where they were absent for work by reason of the COVID-19 outbreak. |
| The Special Educational Needs and Disability (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.471 | 30 April 2020 | Temporarily relaxes the timescales for dealing with special educational needs and disability where the original timescales cannot be met by reason of the COVID-19 outbreak. |
| The Criminal Legal Aid (Coronavirus, Remuneration) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.472 | 30 April 2020 | To amend the circumstances in which litigators and advocates providing legal aid services are entitled to receive hardship payments by reducing the threshold for such payments and the period for payment. |
| The Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.477 | 1 May 2020 | Amends certain rules relating to the application of the Common Agricultural Policy to extend the deadline for direct payments and the claims deadline for countryside stewardship, environmental stewardship and woodland grants. |
| The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Order 2020 | 2020 No.480 | 1 May 2020 | To remove loans of £25,000 of less that are made by commercial lenders under the Bounce Back Loan Scheme from the scope of the regulatory regime relating to consumer credit loans. |
| The Competition Act 1998 (Dairy Produce) (Coronavirus) (Public Policy Exclusion) Order 2020 | 2020 No.481 | 1 May 2020 | Excludes certain agreements between produces of dairy products (and associated logistics providers) from certain prohibitions on anti-competitive behaviour under the Competition Act 1998. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.500 | 13 May 2020 | Replaces the previous Lockdown Regulations and provides for revisions to the terms of the lockdown in England |
| The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure, Listed Buildings and Environmental Impact Assessment) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.505 | 13 May 2020 | Provide for temporary amendments to certain requirements for planning authorities to obtain an Environmental Impact Assessment where it is not reasonable for an authority to comply with a specific request due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Individual Savings Account (Amendment No. 3) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.506 | 14 May 2020 | Reduces the charge for unauthorized withdrawals from a Lifetime Individual Savings Account from 25% to 20% for the period from 6 March 2020 to 5 April 2021. |
| The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.508 | 14 May 2020 | To allow prisons and young offender institutions to implement a restricted regime to manage the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Direct Payments to Farmers (Application Deadlines) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.510 | 14 May 2020 | Extends the deadline for amendments to be made to applications for direct payments for 2020 to 30 June. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Funding of Employers’ Liabilities) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.512 | 15 May 2020 | Provide for certain small and medium-sized employers to apply to HMRC for a refund of the cost of paying Statutory Sick Pay to their employees where they are unable to work because of COVID-19. |
| The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.515 | 18 May 2020 | Introduces two new standard fees payable for asylum and immigration cases which are appealing to the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber). |
| The Universal Credit (Coronavirus) (Self-employed Claimants and Reclaims) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.522 | 20 May 2020 | To determine the interaction between coronavirus support payments received by self-employed individuals and eligibility for such persons to claim universal credit. |
| The Income Tax (Exemption for Coronavirus Related Home Office Expenses) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.524 | 21 May 2020 | Provides for a new temporary exemption to allow employers to reimburse employees who are working from home for the cost of acquiring home equipment without such a reimbursement being taxable income. |
| The Social Security Contributions (Disregarded Payments) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.525 | 21 May 2020 | To provide that the reimbursement of costs incurred by an employee for the acquisition of home office equipment (in line with SI 2020/524) will not be subject to national insurance contributions. |
| The Tax Credits (Coronavirus, Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.534 | 22 May 2020 | Protect a person's entitlement to working tax credit and to allow workers to continue to receive working tax credit if they would have been engaged in work if it were not for the impact of COVID-19. |
| The Traffic Orders Procedure (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.536 | 22 May 2020 | Makes amendments to enable local authorities to deal with the effect of coronavirus on transport to support social distancing requirements and to make digital notifications of changes. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.539 | 27 May 2020 | To provide that, where person who has been advised that they have been in contact with someone who has coronavirus and that they should self-isolate shall be entitled to statutory sick pay if they are unable to work as a result of the requirement to self-isolate. |
| The Schools Forums (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.540 | 28 May 2020 | Allows school forums to hold public meetings remotely where they are unable to meet physically due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Education (Independent School Standards) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.542 | 28 May 2020 | Provides for more flexibility in relation to applications for enhanced criminal record certificates. |
| The School Discipline (England) (Coronavirus) (Pupil Exclusions and Reviews) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.543 | 28 May 2020 | Provides for meetings to scrutinise school exclusions to be held virtually and for the time limits for such meetings to be extended where it has not been reasonably practical to hold the meeting. |
| The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.544 | 28 May 2020 | Temporarily suspends the obligations on schools to record details in their attendance register and to provide for increased flexibility for schools to record attendance during the 2019–20 school year. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.558 | 1 June 2020 | Relaxed the previous lockdown restrictions to remove the restriction on leaving home without a reasonable excuse which was replaced with a restriction on staying overnight away from home. To allow for outdoor gatherings of up to 6 people and indoor gatherings of people from two households. To allow certain businesses to reopen, predominantly those operating outdoors. |
| The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Specified Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 2020 | 2020 No.562 | 2 June 2020 | Provides that offences of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 and the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020 become 'specified proceedings' for the purpose of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985. |
| The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Statutory Storage Period for Embryos and Gametes) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.566 | 3 June 2020 | Extends the statutory period for which gametes and embryos can be stored by fertility clinics from 10 years to 12 years. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Passengers Travelling to England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.567 | 3 June 2020 | Requires operators of commercial transport services for passengers travelling to England from outside of the common travel area to provide information to passengers about coronavirus, coronavirus disease and related duties and public health guidance. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.568 | 3 June 2020 | Requires passengers arriving in England from outside of the common travel area to self-isolate for 14 days and provide personal and contact details. |
| The Direct Payments to Farmers (Inspections) (Coronavirus) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.575 | 9 June 2020 | Reduces the rates of on-the-spot control checks which the Rural Payments Agency will carry out for 2020 and allows for such checks to be replaced by alternative means (e.g. satellite imagery). |
| The Value Added Tax (Section 55A) (Specified Services and Excepted Supplies) (Change of Commencement Day and Amendment) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.578 | 9 June 2020 | To delay the introduction of the domestic reverse charge for value added tax on construction services from 1 October 2020 to 1 March 2021. |
| The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.582 | 10 June 2020 | Amends the civil procedure rules to provide for possession proceedings to be stayed until 24 August 2020. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.588 | 12 June 2020 | Further relaxes the lockdown restrictions to allow for the reopening of non-essential retail, indoor markets, community centres and private prayer in places of worship. To allow persons to stay overnight with certain linked households. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.592 | 15 June 2020 | Requires individuals travelling on public transport in England to wear a face covering. |
| The General Osteopathic Council (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2020 | 2020 No.596 | 17 June 2020 | To allow the General Osteopathic Council to amend its rules when determining how to contact registrants where a fitness to practise or professional conduct allegation is made against them. The amendments allow such contact to be made by e-mail rather than post. |
| The Education (Pupil Information) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.599 | 18 June 2020 | To remove the requirement for head teachers to include in their annual report to parents information on the pupil's attendance and certain information connected to assessment at Key Stage 1 and 2 due to the impact of COVID-19 on attendance and cancellation of assessments for key stage 1 and 2. |
| The Business Tenancies (Protection from Forfeiture: Relevant Period) (Coronavirus) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.602 | 19 June 2020 | Prevents landlords of commercial properties from being able to evict tenants for non-payment of rent until 30 September 2020. Extends the previous moratorium which was due to end on 30 June 2020 |
| The Taking Control of Goods and Certification of Enforcement Agents (Amendment) (No. 2) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.614 | 19 June 2020 | Increases the minimum amount of unpaid rent that must be outstanding before commercial rent arrears recovery may take place to 189 days rent. |
| The Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme (English and Welsh Schemes) (Excluded Benefits for Tax Purposes) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.615 | 22 June 2020 | Exempts any lump sum payments made from the National Health Service Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme from the charge to income tax. |
| The Enterprise Act 2002 (Specification of Additional Section 58 Consideration) Order 2020 | 2020 No.627 | 22 June 2020 | Amends the Enterprise Act 2002 to allow the secretary of state to intervene on the basis of consideration of mergers and acquisitions where such a transaction may impact the UK's ability to manage and mitigate public health emergencies. |
| The Town and Country Planning (Permitted Development and Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.632 | 24 June 2020 | To relax certain planning laws relating to permitted development rights to support the governments economic renewal package following the COVID-19 outbreak. |
| The Limited Liability Partnerships (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.643 | 26 June 2020 | Make various amendments to allow for the new insolvency and restructuring measures introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 to apply to limited liability partnerships. |
| The Companies etc. (Filing Requirements) (Temporary Modifications) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.645 | 26 June 2020 | Temporarily extends various filing deadlines relevant to corporate bodies. |
| The Patents, Trade Marks and Registered Designs (Fees) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.644 | 29 June 2020 | Temporarily reduces fees payable to the Intellectual Property Office in relation to patents, trade marks and designs. |
| The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.650 | 29 June 2020 | Extends the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme by a further twelve months and to provide a new tariff guarantee on for the equivalent non-domestic scheme. |
| The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.651 | 30 June 2020 | To amend the rules applying to tribunals to correct certain administrative issues in the previous statutory instruments and to update the rules for other changes in law. |
| The Childcare Payments (Coronavirus and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.656 | 30 June 2020 | Provides that critical workers who exceed the maximum income threshold due to increase income for reasons connected with the COVID-19 outbreak can continue to claim tax-free childcare. |
| The Electric Scooter Trials and Traffic Signs (Coronavirus) Regulations and General Directions 2020 | 2020 No.663 | 30 June 2020 | Amends road traffic regulations to allow for on-road trials of e-scooters. |
| The Secure Training Centre (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.664 | 1 July 2020 | Provides for temporary modifications to the operation of privately operated secure training centres to ensure such centres can operate effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Waiting Days and General Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.681 | 3 July 2020 | To provide clarification on the eligibility of people who are shielding as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic to received statutory sick pay. Ensures persons self-isolating because a member of their households has symptoms may be eligible for statutory sick pay. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.684 | 3 July 2020 | Replaces all previous lockdown regulations and provides for a revised set of lockdown regulations. Certain businesses are required to remain closed but many businesses and activities that had been prevented under the previous restrictions were now allowed to resume. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.685 | 3 July 2020 | Provides for a local lockdown in Leicester due to an increase number of coronavirus cases as compared to the rest of England. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Public Health Information) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.691 | 4 July 2020 | Provides for a list of countries and territory for which passengers can travel to England without the requirement to quarantine when arriving in England. |
| The Pension Protection Fund (Moratorium and Arrangements and Reconstructions for Companies in Financial Difficulty) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.693 | 4 July 2020 | Provides specific protections for pension schemes during a moratorium or where a restructuring plan is proposed under the new provisions provided under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020. |
| The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Insolvency and Dissolution) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.710 | 8 July 2020 | To ensure that the provisions allowing for moratoriums under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 applies effectively to charitable companies. |
| The Value Added Tax (Zero Rate for Personal Protective Equipment) (Extension) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.698 | 9 July 2020 | To extend the period for which supplies of personal protective equipment are treated as being zero-rated for value added tax to 31 October 2020. |
| The International Tax Enforcement (Disclosable Arrangements) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.713 | 9 July 2020 | To defer the reporting date under DAC6 (the EU mandatory disclosure regime on certain tax arrangement) by six months to January 2021. |
| The Childcare (Early Years Provision Free of Charge) (Extended Entitlement) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.712 | 10 July 2020 | Temporarily changes the maximum income threshold eligibility criteria for free childcare for working parents of three and four year olds to ensure that critical workers with increased income due to the COVID-19 pandemic can still access childcare. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.719 | 10 July 2020 | Allows for the reopening of a number of businesses including outdoor pools, nail bars, beauty salons, spas and tattoo parlours. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.724 | 10 July 2020 | Removes Serbia from the list of countries for which quarantine free travel can be undertaken to England. |
| The Value Added Tax (Reduced Rate) (Hospitality and Tourism) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.728 | 14 July 2020 | Provides that a reduced rate of value added tax of 5% will apply to certain supplies relating to hospitality, holiday accommodation and admission to attractions for the period from 15 July 2020 to 12 January 2021. |
| The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.731 | 15 July 2020 | Removes, on a temporary basis until 31 December 2020, the requirements on local planning authorities to make documents available for physical inspection or to provide hard copies of documents. Documents will still be required to be made available digitally. |
| The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.734 | 15 July 2020 | Amends, on a temporary basis until 31 December 2020, the requirements for documents relation to strategic environmental assessments to be made available for physical inspection. The documents will be required to be available for inspection online. |
| The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions (Arrangements, Reconstructions and Administration) (Amendment) and Consequential Amendments Order 2020 | 2020 No.744 | 17 July 2020 | Amends rules relating to co-operative and community benefit societies to allow the new insolvency rescue legislation introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 to apply to such entities. |
| The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.747 | 17 July 2020 | Makes numerous amendments to the civil procedure rules relating to costs and budgeting, Welsh judicial reviews, false statements, requests for evidence following Brexit, legal adviser unless order provisions, tainted acquittals, contempt of court and possession. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.750 | 17 July 2020 | To provide local authorities with powers relating to the control and prevention of coronavirus including the closure of premises, events or other outdoor public place. |
| The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.751 | 17 July 2020 | Amends the civil procedure rules to provide for arrangements for managing the resumption of possession proceedings. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.754 | 20 July 2020 | Removed the areas of Blaby and Charnwood from the local lockdown area of Leicester. |
| The Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 | 2020 No.759 | 20 July 2020 | Consolidate a number of previous orders relating to criminal procedure rules. |
| The Enterprise Act 2002 (Turnover Test) (Amendment) Order 2020 | 2020 No.763 | 20 July 2020 | Amends the Enterprise Act 2002 to enable the secretary of state to intervene in an increase number of mergers involving military and dual use technologies, advanced technologies, artificial intelligence, cryptographic authentication and advanced materials. |
| The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020 | 2020 No.755 | 21 July 2020 | To allow for a new permanent permitted development right to allow existing houses to be extended to provide more living space by constructing additional stories. |
| The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2020 | 2020 No.756 | 21 July 2020 | Introduces a new permanent permitted development right to allow for the demolition of certain building to be replaced as new homes. |
| The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.757 | 21 July 2020 | Create new use classes for planning permission purposes in respect of 'commercial, business and service' (Class E), 'learning and non-residential institutions' (Class F.1) and 'local community' (Class F.2). |
| The Infrastructure Planning (Publication and Notification of Applications etc.) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.764 | 21 July 2020 | Make temporary amendments to the requirements to make certain documents available at specific places in respect of infrastructure works until 31 December 2020. |
| The Town and Country Planning (Spatial Development Strategy) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.765 | 21 July 2020 | Remove until 31 December 2020 the requirement for the Mayor of London and combined authorities to make certain documents available for physical inspection and to provide hard copies. |
| The Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.776 | 22 July 2020 | To allow Ministers of the Crown to exercise certain powers that would normally be within the powers of Scottish Ministers in relation to track and trace software on mobile phones which is to be used to support a reduction in the transmission of coronavirus. |
| The Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Order 2020 | 2020 No.777 | 22 July 2020 | To allow Ministers of the Crown to exercise certain powers that would normally be within the powers of Scottish Ministers in relation to the operation of the Joint Biosecurity Centre. |
| The Pension Protection Fund (Moratorium and Arrangements and Reconstructions for Companies in Financial Difficulty) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.783 | 22 July 2020 | To provide powers to the Pension Protection Fund to step in where an entity makes use of the new restructuring tools provided for in the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.787 | 23 July 2020 | To allow for the reopening of certain non-essential businesses in Leicester as part of the relaxation of the local lockdown. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.788 | 23 July 2020 | To allow for the reopening of indoor swimming pools, fitness and dance studios and gyms in England. |
| The Motor Vehicles (Tests) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.790 | 23 July 2020 | Provides for the re-introduction of mandatory motor vehicle tests from 1 August 2020. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.791 | 23 July 2020 | Requires members of the public to wear a face covering when in a shop or a transport hub. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.799 | 24 July 2020 | Added Estonia, Latvia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Slovakia and Slovenia to the list of countries from which passengers arriving in England are not required to self-isolate on arrival. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Luton) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.800 | 24 July 2020 | Introduced local lockdown restrictions in Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.805 | 27 July 2020 | To remove Spain from the list of countries from which passengers arriving in England are not required to self-isolate on arrival. |
| The Overseas Territories (Constitutional Modifications) Order 2020 | 2020 No.780 | 29 July 2020 | To modify the constitutions of the Falkland Islands and St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha to allow virtual meetings of their legislative bodies to take place. |
| The Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.808 | 30 July 2020 | To provide relaxations to the requirements to hold various public meetings and to alter the frequency and occurrence of such meetings. |
| The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.809 | 30 July 2020 | Extend the period for time for single tier authorities with reorganisation dates in 2019, 2020 and 2021 to prepare from 24 months to 36 months from the reorganisation date. |
| The Road Vehicles (Certificates of Temporary Exemption) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.812 | 30 July 2020 | Allows the Secretary of State for Transport to issue temporary exemptions from the requirement for public services vehicles and goods vehicles to hold a test certificate. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.813 | 30 July 2020 | Provides for certain limited reasons for people to leave their homes and receive visitors when requiring to self isolate on returning from non-exempt territories. Removed exemption from self-isolation for medical and care professionals entering the UK. |
| The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week's Pay) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.814 | 30 July 2020 | Provides that various statutory entitlement (including redundancy pay, notice pay and compensation for unfair dismissal) are not reduced as a result of the employee being furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. |
| The Electricity (Individual Exemptions from the Requirement for a Transmission Licence) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.815 | 31 July 2020 | To grant a limited exemption to the requirement to hold an electricity transmission licence to a number of offshore wind farms. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.819 | 31 July 2020 | To remove Luxembourg from the list of countries from which passengers arriving in England are not required to self-isolate on arrival. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) Regulations 2020 | 202- No.822 | 31 July 2020 | Revokes the previous regulations local lockdown regulations for Blackburn with Darwen and Luton. Replaces these with new lockdown regulations for Blackburn with Darwen and added Bradford to the lockdown. |
| The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.816 | 3 August 2020 | To make provision for recording when a pupil is not attending school for reasons relating to coronavirus during the 2020–21 academic year. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.823 | 3 August 2020 | To remove the boroughs of Oadby and Wigston from the area subject to a local lockdown. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.824 | 3 August 2020 | Repealed the previous local lockdown restrictions in Leicester and replaced them with new lockdown measures. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.828 | 4 August 2020 | Introduced local lockdown measures for the North of England including regions within Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.829 | 4 August 2020 | Extends eligibility for statutory sick pay to cover people who are self isolating in line with guidance published by Public Health England. |
| The Nursing and Midwifery Council (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules Order of Council 2020 | 2020 No.821 | 5 August 2020 | To make certain technical amendments to a number of provisions relating to the operation of the Nursing and Midwifery Council to allow it to continue to operate effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.839 | 7 August 2020 | Extends the range of premises within which it is mandatory to wear a face covering to include indoor places of worship, crematoria and burial ground chapels, museums, galleries, cinemas, public libraries, public spaces in hotels (such as lobby areas) and community centres. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.841 | 7 August 2020 | Added Brunei and Malaysia to the list of countries from which passengers arriving in England are not required to self-isolate on arrival. Removed Andorra, The Bahamas and Belgium from that list. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions on Gatherings) (North of England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.846 | 10 August 2020 | Extended the local lockdown restrictions in the North of England to include Preston. |
| The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.842 | 11 August 2020 | Extends the period during which absences by a newly qualified teacher related to coronavirus will not contribute towards the 30 day absence limit to cover the 2020–21 academic year. |
| The Education (National Curriculum Assessment Arrangements, Attainment Targets and Programmes of Study) and (Pupil Information and School Performance Information) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.844 | 11 August 2020 | Makes a number of changes to the assessment and educational framework for school children. |
| The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Insolvency and Dissolution) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.856 | 13 August 2020 | To revoke the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Insolvency and Dissolution) (Amendment) Regulations (S.I. 2020/710) which included drafting errors and omissions and to replace it with a corrected version of the same regulations. |
| The Offshore Chemicals and Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.855 | 14 August 2020 | Removes the requirement for offshore oil and gas operators to make certain documents available for public inspection where the effects of COVID-19 mean that it is not reasonably practical for the public to inspect documents in person. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.863 | 14 August 2020 | Allow certain further businesses to re-open, specifically indoor casinos, indoor skating rinks, indoor play areas, bowling alleys and conference centres and exhibition halls. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions on Gatherings) (North of England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.865 | 14 August 2020 | Extended the local lockdown in the North of England requiring that casinos, indoor skating rinks, indoor play areas including soft play areas, and conference centres and exhibition halls which are allowed to reopen elsewhere in England cannot reopen in the area subject to the lockdown. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 8) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.866 | 14 August 2020 | Removes Aruba, France, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands and Turks and Caicos Islands from the list of countries from which individuals can travel to England without being required to self-isolate. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.875 | 18 August 2020 | Allowed the reopening of various businesses which had been required to remain closed due to the local lockdown in Leicester, including a number of businesses where there would be close-contact between individuals. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 9) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.881 | 21 August 2020 | Removes Austria, Croatia and Trinidad and Tobago from the list of countries from which individuals can travel to England without being required to self-isolate and adds Portugal to the list. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.882 | 21 August 2020 | Expands the list of places where a face covering must be worn to include casinos, members clubs, social clubs and conference centres. |
| The National Health Service (Coronavirus) (Charges and Further Amendments Relating to the Provision of Primary Care Services During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.885 | 24 August 2020 | To make changes to the rules relating to prescription charging, dental services and ophthalmic services with regards to the completion of forms to reduce the risk of cross-infection. To delay the production of pharmaceutical needs assessments. |
| The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.889 | 24 August 2020 | Amends the Civil Procedure Rules to extend the stay on possession proceedings for a further period of four weeks to 20 September 2020. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 10) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.890 | 24 August 2020 | To remove Austria, Croatia and Trinidad and Tobago from the list of countries from which people may travel to England without requiring to self isolate and to add Portugal to the list. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.892 | 25 August 2020 | To extend the eligibility for statutory sick pay to include people who are self-isolating prior to admittance to hospital for planned or elective surgery. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.897 | 25 August 2020 | To remove Wigan and Rossendale from the area in the North of England that was subject to a local lockdown. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.898 | 25 August 2020 | To amend the area that was subject to local lockdown restrictions to certain wards. |
| The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.893 | 27 August 2020 | Provides that administering authorities may amend the contributions made by employers to the Local Government Pension Scheme and that where an employer is exiting the scheme then any exit payment may be spread of deferred. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place and on Public Transport) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.906 | 27 August 2020 | Introduced a new penalty regime for individuals who failed to wear a face covering where required to do so with the maximum penalty increasing to £3,200 for repeat offenders. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions on Holding of Gatherings and Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.907 | 27 August 2020 | Prohibits gatherings of more than 30 persons (including in private dwellings) and introduces a penalty of £10,000 for persons that host or facilitate such gatherings. Business premises were largely exempt from this restriction. |
| The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.911 | 27 August 2020 | To implement agreements between the National Health Service and the British Medical Association with regards to the contracts for general practitioners and to amend drafting errors in the NHS (Amendments Relating to Primary Care Services During a Pandemic etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/351). |
| The School Discipline (England) (Coronavirus) (Pupil Exclusions and Reviews) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.908 | 28 August 2020 | Provides for certain meetings and reviews of pupil exclusions to be held remotely and to extend the period in which such reviews must be undertaken where there is a delay due to the impact of COVID-19. |
| The Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.090 | 28 August 2020 | Temporarily amends various regulations relating to children's social care to manage the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 11) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.913 | 28 August 2020 | Removed the Czech Republic, Jamaica, and Switzerland from the list of countries from which persons could travel to England without having to self isolate and added Cuba to that list. |
| The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential Tenancies: Protection from Eviction) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.914 | 28 August 2020 | Extends the period for which protections under the Coronavirus Act 2020 against evictions from residential premises will apply to 31 March 2020. Extends the notice period that landlords must give to evict tenants under these provisions to six months. Reduces this period where in certain scenarios where a reduced period is justified (e.g. series rent arrears, anti-social behaviour etc). |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Greencore) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.921 | 1 September 2020 | Requires that workers at two sites run by Greencore in Northampton and members of their household would be required to self-isolate for two weeks in response to an outbreak of COVID-19 at the sites. |
| The Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) (England) (Amendment) and Suspension (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.924 | 1 September 2020 | Makes a number of technical amendments to existing legislation and forms relating to intentions for landlords to seek possession under the Housing Act 1988. |
| The Postponed Elections and Referendums (Coronavirus) and Policy Development Grants (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.926 | 1 September 2020 | To address uncertainties and gaps in electoral law resulting in the postponement of elections that were due to take place in 2020 and had been postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.930 | 2 September 2020 | Amended the area subject to a local lockdown in Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford to exclude all but certain wards within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council area. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.931 | 2 September 2020 | Amended the area subject to local lockdown restrictions in the North of England to remove the borough council areas of Stockport, Burnley and Hyndburn from the protected area. Provides that only certain wards in other borough council areas will be subject to restrictions. |
| The Competition Act 1998 (Coronavirus) (Public Policy Exclusions) (Amendment and Revocation) Order 2020 | 2020 No.933 | 3 September 2020 | To amend previous orders made in respect of relaxations of anti-competitive behaviour in respect of the need for essential supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. To revoke the order relating to grocery supplies and dairy produce. |
| The Finance Act 2008, Section 135 (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.934 | 3 September 2020 | Provides that HM Treasury considers the COVID-19 pandemic to be an emergency of national significance and provides that interest will not be charges on deferred payments of income tax or VAT which have been deferred under agreements with HMRC. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.935 | 3 September 2020 | Amends the area subject to local lockdown restrictions in Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford to remove Windhill and Wrose from the protected area of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. |
| The Early Years Foundation Stage (Learning and Development and Welfare Requirements) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.939 | 4 September 2020 | To allow the Secretary of State for Education to disapply or modify certain requirements of the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage where it is not reasonably practical for these to be provided due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Tax Credits (Coronavirus, Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.941 | 4 September 2020 | To ensure that payments under the government's coronavirus financial support schemes are not double counted or are disregarded entirely in calculating entitlements to tax credits. |
| The Insolvency (Moratorium) (Special Administration for Energy Licensees) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.943 | 4 September 2020 | Modifies how the moratorium regime in the Insolvency Act 1986 applies to energy companies by requiring such companies to notify the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Ofgem of a decision to apply for a moratorium. |
| The Wills Act 1837 (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.952 | 7 September 2020 | Amends the Wills Act 1937 to permit the use of video technology for the witnessing of wills. |
| The Prosecution of Offences (Custody Time Limits) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.953 | 7 September 2020 | To amend the maximum time periods for which accused persons can be held in custody prior to a trial or indictment to take account of the delays to the court process arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford, Leicester, and North of England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.954 | 7 September 2020 | Permits the re-opening in various areas that had been subject to a local lockdown of a number of businesses and venues. |
| The Feed-in Tariffs (Amendment) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Order 2020 | 2020 No.957 | 8 September 1010 | Provided small-scale renewable energy generators additional time to apply for accreditation under the feed-in tariff scheme as a result of delays to commissioning of projects due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 12) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.959 | 8 September 2020 | Enables a regional approach to be taken in determining whether people travelling from certain areas to England are required to self-isolate and requires that people travelling to England from certain Greek islands will be required to self-isolate. |
| The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions (Arrangements, Reconstructions and Administration) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020 | 2020 No.963 | 9 September 2020 | Corrects a number of errors and inconsistencies in existing law which arose as a result of the Pension Protection Fund (Moratorium and Arrangements and Reconstructions for Companies in Financial Difficulty) (Amendment) Regulations 2020. |
| The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.965 | 10 September 2020 | To enable the collection of further details with regards to the attendance of school pupils including details of absences relating to coronavirus to enable the government to assess the impact of the pandemic on school attendance. |
| The Coronavirus (Retention of Fingerprints and DNA Profiles in the Interests of National Security) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.973 | 10 September 2020 | Extends the deadline for the retention of fingerprints and DNA profiles for six months. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Bolton) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.974 | 10 September 2020 | Imposed a local lockdown in Bolton imposing a number of restrictions on movement, activities and businesses within the area of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 13) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.980 | 11 September 2020 | Removes French Polynesia, Hungary, Portugal (not including the islands that make up The Azores and Madeira), and Réunion from the list of countries from which people can travel to England without being required to self-isolate and adds Sweden to that list. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.986 | 14 September 2020 | To reduce the size of permitted gatherings of people to a maximum of six people. Commonly referred to as the 'Rule of six'. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Leicester) (No. 2) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.987 | 14 September 2020 | Allowed for the further easing of restrictions that had been in place in Leicester to align the position with other areas subject to local restrictions. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.988 | 14 September 2020 | Introduces local restrictions (a local lockdown) for the areas of Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull. |
| The Pension Protection Fund (Moratorium and Arrangements and Reconstructions for Companies in Financial Difficulty) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.990 | 15 September 2020 | Extends the rights of the Pension Protection Fund where moratoriums are put in place under the new insolvency rights under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 in relations to Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies. |
| The Business Tenancies (Protection from Forfeiture: Relevant Period) (Coronavirus) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.994 | 16 September 2020 | To further extend the period for which protections for business tenants granted under the Coronavirus Act 2020 will apply to ensure such protections will continue until 31 December 2020. |
| The Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1001 | 16 September 2020 | Revokes the Civil Legal Aid (Remuneration) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020/515 and introduces a new fee system for legal aid in respect of asylum and immigration cases. |
| The Taking Control of Goods (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1002 | 16 September 2020 | To increase the minimum amount of rent that must be outstanding before Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery may take place to 276 days rent during the period to 24 December 2020 and 366 days rent thereafter. |
| The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1003 | 17 September 2020 | To provide greater flexibility over the operation of the employment tribunals. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Collection of Contact Details etc and Related Requirements) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1005 | 17 September 2020 | To require venues to collect certain contact details from customers, visitors and staff, to store such details and to share such details with NHS Test and Trace. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Obligations of Hospitality Undertakings) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1008 | 17 September 2020 | To place obligations on the hospitality industry to take reasonable steps to ensure that customers are socially distanced once in such premises and do not breach the 'Rule of six'. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1010 | 17 September 2020 | To provide for local lockdown restrictions in Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1012 | 18 September 2020 | To correct drafting errors made in The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North East of England) Regulations 2020. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 14) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1013 | 18 September 2020 | Removes Guadeloupe and Slovenia from the list of places from which people may travel to England without being required to self-isolate on arrival and adds Singapore and Thailand to the list. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Protected Areas and Linked Childcare Households) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1019 | 22 September 2020 | To allow for informal childcare arrangements to be made between families living in areas subject to local lockdown restrictions. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place and on Public Transport) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1021 | 22 September 2020 | Extends the requirements for the wearing of face coverings on public transport to include those travelling in taxis and private hire vehicles. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place and on Public Transport) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1026 | 23 September 2020 | Requires members of the public to wear face coverings in additional indoor premises and required that individuals working in certain retail, hospitality and leisure settings will be required to wear face coverings at work. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1028 | 24 September 2020 | To amend the previous face coverings regulations SI.2020/1026 to ensure that they covered further workers, including workers in public houses. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (England) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1029 | 24 September 2020 | Requires the closure of businesses selling food and drink to be consumed on site or for take away in person between the hours of 22:00 and 05:00. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Funding of Employers’ Liabilities) (Amendment) Regulations and the Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Funding of Employers’ Liabilities) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1030 | 24 September 2020 | Provides employers with continued access for support for the costs of paying statutory sick pay and make changes in accordance with changes made to EU state aid rules. |
| The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Extension of the Relevant Period) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1031 | 24 September 2020 | Extends the duration for some of the temporary measures introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 from 30 September 2020 to 31 December 2020. Extends the moratorium period to 31 March 2021. |
| The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Early Termination of Certain Temporary Provisions) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1033 | 25 September 2020 | Amended the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 to provide that the extension of time limits given by SI 2020/1031 will not apply to the provisions that allowed insolvency practitioners to disregard the impact of coronavirus when determining whether the company is capable of being rescued. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 15) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1039 | 25 September 2020 | Removes Curaçao, Denmark, Iceland and Slovakia from the list of countries from which people travelling to England are not required to self-isolate on arrival. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Protected Areas and Restriction on Businesses) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1041 | 28 September 2020 | Extends the areas subject to a local lockdown in the North of England and imposes restricted opening hours on certain businesses operating in areas subject to a local lockdown. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1045 | 28 September 2020 | Requires persons who have testing positive for COVID-19 and their close contacts to self-isolate. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Obligations of Undertakings) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1046 | 28 September 2020 | Requires certain hospitality venues to take actions to prevent bookings of more than six persons to be made and to maintain social distancing between groups. Also limits singing, dancing and the volume at which music can be played in such venues. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England, North East and North West of England and Obligations of Undertakings (England) etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1057 | 30 September 2020 | Transferred certain areas in the North West of England such that they would be subject to the regulations imposed on the North of England and imposed further restrictions on remaining areas in the North West and North East of England. |
| The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.1059 | 30 September 2020 | Mandate the use of online processes for certain types of probate applications and allow for relaxations on the requirements relating to the processing of witness statements. |
| The Social Security Contributions (Disregarded Payments) (Coronavirus) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1065 | 1 October 2020 | Ensures the payments made under the Test and Trace Support Payment Scheme to low income employees who have been asked to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace will not be subject to National Insurance Contributions. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 16) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1070 | 1 October 2020 | Introduces a new fixed penalty regime for individuals who do not comply with the required to self-isolate when arriving in England in accordance with the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020. |
| The Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Treatment) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1072 | 1 October 2020 | Allows for certain forms used to exercise powers under the Mental Health Act 1983 to be serviced by electronic means. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (North of England and North East and North West of England etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1074 | 2 October 2020 | Amends which areas are subject to local lockdown restrictions in the North of England, North East of England and North West of England. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1076 | 2 October 2020 | Removes Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba, Poland and Turkey from the list of countries from which persons are not required to self-isolate when travelling to England. |
| The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Coronavirus, etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.1077 | 5 October 2020 | Makes amendments to the Prison Rules and the Young Offender Institution Rules relating to mandatory drug testing arrangements. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Passengers Travelling to England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1090 | 9 October 2020 | Placed requirements on travel operators to provide information on self-isolation requirements and health guidance to passengers travelling to England. |
| The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Coronavirus Disease) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1097 | 12 October 2020 | Extends the periods for which the provisions of the Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Coronavirus Disease) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/289) apply from either months to fourteen months in respect of Employment and Support Allowance. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1103 | 12 October 2020 | Introduced a new form of tiered restrictions in England replacing the previous system of local lockdowns. Provided for the restrictions that apply to areas in the 'Medium Tier' (Tier 1). |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (High) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1104 | 12 October 2020 | Introduced a new form of tiered restrictions in England replacing the previous system of local lockdowns. Provided for the restrictions that apply to areas in the 'High Tier' (Tier 2). |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Very High) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1105 | 12 October 2020 | Introduced a new form of tiered restrictions in England replacing the previous system of local lockdowns. Provided for the restrictions that apply to areas in the 'Very High Tier' (Tier 3). |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (High) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1128 | 15 October 2020 | Amends the tier restrictions to move London boroughs, parts of Essex, Barrow-in-Furness, York, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Erewash and Elmbridge from tier 1 (medium) to tier 2 (high). |
| The Human Medicines (Coronavirus and Influenza) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1125 | 16 October 2020 | Allows for the expansion of the workforce able to administer COVID-19 vaccines and influenza vaccines and extends existing legal protections to such individuals. Also relaxed certain rules relating to the supply of such medicines. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 19) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1129 | 16 October 2020 | Adds the island of Crete to the list of territories from which persons are not required to self-isolate when travelling to England and removes Italy, San Marino and the Vatican City State from that list. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Very High) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1131 | 16 October 2020 | Made a number of amendments to the restrictions that apply to areas within Tier 3 of the tier restrictions. |
| The National Health Service (Charges and Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1126 | 19 October 2020 | Make changes to the provisions relating to new services and service updates for community pharmacies in order to support the deliver of the NHS Long Term Plan. |
| The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Expiry of Mental Health Provisions) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 | (Draft, not yet made) | 21 October 2020 | Expires unused provisions of the Coronavirus Act 2020 addressing potential staff shortages in mental health services. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium, High and Very High) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1154 | 22 October 2020 | Provides for changes to the COVID-19 tier regulations in England to move a number of geographical areas from medium alert to high alert and a number of other areas from high alert to very high alert. Corrects certain errors in the original tier regulations. |
| The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Prisoners) Amendment Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1156 | 22 October 2020 | Extends by 6 months the expiry date of the Social Security (Coronavirus) (Prisoners) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/409), which allow individuals on temporary release from prison access to means tested benefits. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 20) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1161 | 23 October 2020 | Add the Canary Islands, Denmark, Maldives and the Greek island of Mykonos to the list of countries from which persons travelling to England are not required to self-isolate on arrival and removes Liechtenstein from that list. |
| The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1175 | 26 October 2020 | Requires that a provider of point of care tests for the detection of COVID-19 must notify Public Health England of the result of the test. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium, High and Very High) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1176 | 26 October 2020 | Moves the area of Warrington Borough Council from being subject to tier 2 restrictions (High Risk) to being subject to tier 3 restrictions (Very High Risk) under the tier regulations. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Medium, High and Very High) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1183 | 29 October 2020 | Moves local council areas in Nottinghamshire from being subject to tier 2 restrictions (High Risk) to being subject to tier 3 restrictions (Very High Risk) under the tier regulations. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 21) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1190 | 30 October 2020 | Removed Cyprus and Lithuania from the list of countries from which people travelling to England were not required to self-isolate on arrival. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (High) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1189 | 30 October 2020 | Moves a number of areas up to tier 2 (high risk) areas as part of the classification system in the COVID-19 tier regulations in England. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (High) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1192 | 2 November 2020 | Moves Carlisle up to a tier 2 (high risk) area as part of the classification system in the COVID-19 tier regulations in England. |
| The Business and Planning Act 2020 (London Spatial Development Strategy) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | (Draft not yet made) | 2 November 2020 | |
| The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 | (Draft not yet made) | 2 November 2020 | |
| The Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme (Northern Irish Scheme) (Excluded Benefits for Tax Purposes) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1198 | 3 November 2020 | To exempt lump sum payments under the Health and Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance (Northern Ireland) Scheme 2020 from the charge to income tax. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No. 1200 | 3 November 2020 | Introduces a new comprehensive lockdown for England starting on Thursday, 5 November 2020. |
| Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Amendment Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1201 | 3 November 2020 | To extend the expiry date of the Social Security (Coronavirus) (Further Measures) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/371) to ensure that financial support continued to be provided into 2021. |
| The Local Authorities (Collection Fund: Surplus and Deficit) (Coronavirus) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No. 1202 | 5 November 2020 | To extend from one to three years, the period over which local authorities can repay deficits in their local tax collection funds which have accrued as a result of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 22) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1227 | 6 November 2020 | Removes Denmark, Germany and Sweden from the list of countries from which passengers returning to England are not required to self-isolate. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 23) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1238 | 9 November 2020 | To require all persons arriving from Denmark to self-isolate on arrival, including those that would previously have been of an exempt class. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Travel from Denmark) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1239 | 9 November 2020 | Prohibits all aircraft and vessels whose last departure point was in Denmark from landing, or mooring in a port, in England. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1242 | 9 November 2020 | Provides for limited exemptions from the restriction on gatherings taking place outdoors to allow for Armistice Day commemorations. |
| The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1243 | 11 November 2020 | Makes a number of changes to planning laws, including to extend a number of relaxations that were introduced to allow businesses to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Consumer Credit (Enforcement, Default and Termination Notices) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1248 | 11 November 2020 | Mandates changes to the wording of debt collection letters following advice from the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute on the mental health impact of such letters. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Travel from Denmark) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1277 | 13 November 2020 | Removes Greece (other than specified islands) and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia from the list of countries from which passengers may travel to England without being required to self-isolate. Adds Bahrain, Chile, Iceland, Laos, Qatar, Turks and Caicos Islands and United Arab Emirates to that list. Amends specific rules relating to travel from Denmark. |
| The Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction and Taking Control of Goods) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1290 | 16 November 2020 | Prevents the enforcement of evictions against residential tenants, other than in very serious circumstances, during the second nationwide lockdown. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 24) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1292 | 16 November 2020 | To exempt seasonal poultry workers who have travelled to England from the requirement to self-isolate on arrival. |
| The Income Tax (Exemption of Minor Benefits) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1293 | 16 November 2020 | To ensure that employees who are provided with a coronavirus antigen test by their employer will not be liable to an income tax benefit in kind charge. |
| The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week's Pay) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1298 | 17 November 2020 | Ensures that from 18 November 2020, statutory entitlements to various statutory entitlements including, redundancy pay, notice pay and compensation for unfair dismissal, are not reduced as a result of an employee being furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 25) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1323 | 20 November 2020 | Adds Bonaire, Sint Eustatius & Saba, Israel, Jerusalem, Namibia, Northern Mariana Islands, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Uruguay and the United States Virgin Islands to the list of countries from which people can travel to England without being required to self-isolate on arrival. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No. 4) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1326 | 20 November 2020 | Permits the opening of businesses selling or supplying natural Christmas trees. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 26) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1337 | 24 November 2020 | Allows travellers arriving in England to shorten the period for which they are required to self-isolate where the take a COVID-19 test after arriving. |
| The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Liability for Wrongful Trading and Extension of the Relevant Period) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1349 | 25 November 2020 | Suspends provisions relating to wrongful trading under the Insolvency Act 1986 from 26 November 2020 to 30 April 2021. Extends to 30 March 2021 measures introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 regarding the manner in which corporate meetings are required to be held. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 27) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1360 | 27 November 2020 | Adds Aruba, Bhutan, Kiribati, Mongolia, the Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga and Vanuatu to the list of countries from which people can travel to England without being required to self-isolate on arrival. Removes Estonia and Latvia from that list. Revokes the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Travel from Denmark) (England) Regulations 2020, which had placed additional restrictions on travelers from Denmark. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1374 | 30 November 2020 | Introduces the second tier restrictions in areas of England. |
| Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Local Authority Enforcement Powers and Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1375 | 30 November 2020 | Provides addition enforcement tools to local authorities in England in order to allow public health authorities to enforce restrictions put in place to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. |
| The Parish and Community Meetings (Coronavirus) (Polls) (Amendment) (England) Rules 2020 | 2020 No.1355 | 1 December 2020 | Postpones until 6 May 2021, or a date within 25 working days of 6 May 2021, all parish polls scheduled to take place before 6 May 2021. |
| The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning, Development Management Procedure, Listed Buildings etc.) (England) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1398 | 3 December 2020 | Makes a number of amendments to town and country planning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily to extend temporary modifications made in earlier regulations which we due to expire in December 2020 such that they now expire on 31 December 2021. |
| The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) Order 2020 | 2020 No.1411 | 3 December 2020 | Adds COVID-19 to the list of specified diseases to which the Vaccine Damage Payment Act 1979 applies. |
| The Value Added Tax (Reduced Rate) (Hospitality and Tourism) (Extension of Time Period) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 | 2020 No.1413 | 3 December 2020 | Extends the temporary relief from Value Added Tax for certain hospitality businesses to 31 March 2021. |
| The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts and Personal Medical Services Agreements) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1415 | 3 December 2020 | Makes amendments to existing terms in contracts for primary medical services to improve the collection of data on the ethnicity of patients. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 28) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1424 | 4 December 2020 | Provides new exemptions from the requirement for persons arriving in England to self-isolate on arrival for persons engaged in television production, accredited journalists, senior business directors, performing arts professionals and new signings of elite sportspersons. |
| The Business Tenancies (Protection from Forfeiture: Relevant Period) (Coronavirus) (England) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1472 | 9 December 2020 | Extends the period for which landlords of commercial properties are unable to evict tenants due to non-payment of rent to 31 March 2021. |
| The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (Coronavirus) (Extension of the Relevant Period) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1483 | 9 December 2020 | Extends the period for which temporary provisions restricting the use of statutory demands and winding up petitions which were introduced by the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 to 31 March 2021. |
| The Personal Protective Equipment (Temporary Arrangements) (Coronavirus) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1484 | 9 December 2020 | Continues temporary regulatory arrangements to facilitate the production and supply of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| The Tax Credits, Childcare Payments and Childcare (Extended Entitlement) (Coronavirus and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1515 | 11 December 2020 | Provides for a number of changes to tax credits and benefit entitlements to provide that individuals should not lose their entitlement to such benefits as a result of not being engaged in remunerative work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure that certain payments (including NHS Test and Trace payments) are disregarded as income for the purpose of calculating tax credit and benefit entitlements. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Public Health Information) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1517 | 11 December 2020 | Shortens the period for which individuals travelling to England are required to self-isolate to ten days from arrival. Adds Botswana and Saudi Arabia to the list of countries from which self-isolation is not required and removes the Canary Islands from this list. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation and Linked Households) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1518 | 11 December 2020 | Reduces the period for which people are required to self-isolate after receiving a positive test for coronavirus from 14 days to 10 days. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1533 | 14 December 2020 | Makes changes to the second tier restrictions to move the following areas from tier 2 (high risk) to tier 3 (very high risk): Greater London, the Essex districts of Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Harlow, Epping Forest, Rochford, Maldon, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock and the Hertfordshire districts of Broxbourne, Hertsmere, Three Rivers and Watford. |
| The Social Security Contributions (Disregarded Payments) (Coronavirus) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1523 | 14 December 2020 | To provide that where an employer pays or reimburses an employee for the cost of a coronavirus test there is no liability to pay national insurance contributions for either the employer or the employee. Territorial application in England. |
| The Social Security Contributions (Disregarded Payments) (Coronavirus) (Scotland and Wales) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1532 | 15 December 2020 | To provide that where an employer pays or reimburses an employee for the cost of a coronavirus test there is no liability to pay national insurance contributions for either the employer or the employee. Territorial application in Scotland and Wales. |
| The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1531 | 16 December 2020 | Makes permanent the changes introduced by the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/734). |
| The Infrastructure Planning (Publication and Notification of Applications etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1534 | 16 December 2020 | Makes permanent the changes introduced by The Infrastructure Planning (Publication and Notification of Applications etc.) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/764). |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1572 | 17 December 2020 | Within the second tier restrictions, the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, the rest of Berkshire, the Cambridgeshire district of Peterborough, the rest of Hertfordshire, Surrey (except Waverley), the East Sussex districts of Hastings and Rother, and the Hampshire districts of Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth moved up to tier 3. Bristol and North Somerset moved down to tier 2. Herefordshire moved down to tier 1. |
| The Human Medicines (Coronavirus) (Further Amendments) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1594 | 18 December 2020 | Enacts measures relating to a number of legal issues arising from the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the United Kingdom primarily to allow for the use of Patient Group Directions and to allow doctors, nurses and pharmacists to supervise the assembly and preparation of the COVID-19 vaccine. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 29) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1595 | 18 December 2020 | Removes Namibia, the United States Virgin Islands and Uruguay from the list of exempt countries or territories from which passengers arriving in England are not required to self-isolate on arrival. Adds an exemption for the requirement to self-isolate for persons carrying out essential work on the HS2 rail project. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers and Obligations of Undertakings) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1611 | 21 December 2020 | Within the second tier restrictions, the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, the Cambridgeshire district of Peterborough, Essex (except Colchester, Tendring and Uttlesford), Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey (except Waverley), the East Sussex districts of Hastings and Rother, the Hampshire districts of Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth and all London boroughs moved up to tier 4. |
| The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1638 | 23 December 2020 | Amends the statutory sick pay regulations to ensure that individuals remain eligible for Statutory Sick Pay for the full period where they are require to self-isolate where they have tested positive for COVID-19 or are in a household with someone who has tested positive. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Travel from South Africa) (England) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1644 | 29 December 2020 | Extends the requirement to self-isolate to persons in the same household as anyone arriving in England from South Africa. Removes most exemptions from the requirement to self-isolate from persons arriving from South Africa. Prohibits most direct passenger flights from South Africa to England. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1646 | 29 December 2020 | Within the second tier restrictions, moves a number of areas within England to higher levels of restrictions from 26 December 2020 as a result of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases. |
| Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) (No.4) Regulations 2020 | 2020 No.1654 | 30 December 2020 | Within the second tier restrictions, moves a number of areas within England to higher levels of restrictions from 31 December 2020. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No.3) and (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.8 | 5 January 2021 | Within the second tier restrictions, imposes a new national lockdown in England by moving all areas to the highest possible tier and tightening the restrictions applicable to that tier. |
| The School Admissions (England) (Coronavirus) (Appeals Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.14 | 8 January 2021 | Extend, from 31 January 2021 to 30 September 2021, the period for which amendments to the procedural rules for school admission appeals introduced by the School Admissions (England) (Coronavirus) (Appeals Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 will apply. |
| The Public Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.15 | 8 January 2021 | Prevents the enforcement of evictions against residential tenants, other than in certain serious circumstances, until 21 February 2021. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.18 | 8 January 2021 | Removed Botswana, Israel, Jerusalem, Mauritius and the Seychelles from list of countries from which persons traveling to England were not required to self isolate on arrival. Applied additional more restrictive measures persons travelling from Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.25 | 12 January 2021 | Removes the United Arab Emirates from list of countries from which persons traveling to England were not required to self isolate on arrival. |
| The National Health Service (Performers Lists, Coronavirus) (England) Amendment Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.30 | 13 January 2021 | Amends the National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Amendments) Regulations 2013 to remove the requirement for medical practitioners to be on the England Medical Performers List to deliver the COVID-19 Vaccine. |
| The General Pharmaceutical Council (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2021 | 2021 No.26 | 14 January 2021 | Amends the General Pharmaceutical Council rules to allow investigations and appeals procedures to proceed remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and to allow for documents to be presented electronically. |
| The Health and Care Professions Council (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Rules Order of Council 2021 | 2021 No.27 | 14 January 2021 | Amends the Health and Care Professions Council rules to allow certain committees to operate effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic, allow documents to be served electronically and meetings to be held remotely. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Pre-Departure Testing and Operator Liability) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.38 | 14 January 2021 | Requires that all persons arriving in England from outside the Common Travel Area must possess a negative COVID-19 test. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.47 | 15 January 2021 | Imposes 'additional measures' on persons travelling to England from South America and bans flights from many South American countries. |
| The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.49 | 18 January 2021 | Arrivals into England from all countries (except those in the Common Travel Area) must self-isolate on arrival. Several classes of traveller removed from the list of people who are exempt. |
| Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.53 | 19 January 2021 | Makes a number of minor amendments to the lockdown rules. |
| Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.52 | 19 January 2021 | To enable a government petition submitted to a council between 16 March 2020 and 8 February 2021 to be treated as having been presented on 9 February 2021. Practically, the principal effect is expected to be to allow the London Borough of Croydon to process a petition that has already been gathered to allow a governance referendum to occur at the same time as scheduled local elections. |
| Charities (Exception from Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 | 2021 No.55 | 19 January 2021 | Extends, until 31 March 2031,a temporary exemption granted to certain religious charities from the requirement to the registered with the Charity Commission. |