S.I. No. 652/2020 - Health Act 1947 (Fixed Payment Notice and Dwelling Event Provisions) (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Act 1947 (Fixed Payment Notice and Dwelling Event Provisions) (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 18

th

day of December 2020.

2. The

Health Act 1947

(Fixed Payment Notice and Dwelling Event Provisions) (Covid -19) Regulations 2020 (

S.I. No. 536 of 2020

) are amended in Schedule 1, by the insertion of the following paragraphs after paragraph 6

“

7.

Regulation 4(1) of the

Health Act 1947

(Section 31A – Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (Face Coverings in Small Public Service Vehicles and Certain Premises) Regulations 2020 (

S.I. No. 569 of 2020

)

€80

8.

Regulation 3(1) of the

Health Act 1947

(Section 31A – Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (Face Coverings in Certain Premises and Businesses) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (

S.I. No. 571 of 2020

)

€80

9.

Regulation 3(2)(b) of the

Health Act 1947

(Section 31A – Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (Face Coverings in Certain Premises and Businesses) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (

S.I. No. 571 of 2020

)

€80

”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

17 December, 2020.

STEPHEN DONNELLY,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.

)

These Regulations provide for certain penal provisions in Regulations made under Section 31A of the

Health Act 1947

to be fixed penalty provisions.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

1

st January,

2020.

I, STEPHEN DONNELLY, Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 5

, 31A and 31C (inserted by

section 4

of the

Health (Amendment) Act 2020

(No. 19 of 2020)) of the

Health Act 1947

(No. 28 of 1947) and -

(

a

) having regard to the immediate, exceptional and manifest risk posed to human life and public health by the spread of Covid-19 and to the matters specified in section 31A(2) of that Act,

(

b

) having regard also to the matters specified in section 31A(6C)(b) of that Act, and

(

c

) having consulted with the Minister for Justice,

hereby make the following regulations