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United Kingdom legislation connected with the COVID-19 pandemic
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This article contains a list of primary and secondary legislation enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom 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.[1] |
| Coronavirus Act 2020 | 2020 c.7 | 25 March 2020 | To grant a range of emergency powers in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] |
| 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.[3] |
| 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.[4] |
| 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.[5] |
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.[6] |
| 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.[7][8] |
| 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.[9][10] |
| 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.[11][12] |
| 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.[13][14] |
| 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.[15][14] |
| 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.[16][17] |
| 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.[18][19] |
| 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.[20][21] |
| 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.[22] |
| 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.[23] |
| 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.[24] |
| 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.[25] |
| 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.[26] |
| 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.[27] |
| 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.[28] |
| 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.[29] |
| 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.[30] |
| 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.[31] |
| 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.[32] |
| 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.[33] |
| 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.[34] |
| 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.[35] |
| 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.[36] |
| 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.[37] |
| 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.[38] |
| 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.[39] |
| 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.[40] |
| 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.[41] |
| 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.[42] |
| 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.[43] |
| 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.[44] |
| 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.[45] |
| 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.[46] |
| 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.[47] |
| 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.[48] |
| 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.[49] |
| 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.[50] |
| 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.[51] |
| 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.[52] |
| 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.[53] |
| 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.[54] |
| 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.[55] |
| 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.[56] |
| 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.[57] |
| 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.[58] |
| 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.[59] |
| 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.[60] |
| 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.[61] |
| 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.[62] |
| 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.[63] |
| 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.[64] |
| 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.[65] |
| 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.[66] |
| 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.[67] |
| 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.[68] |
| 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.[69] |
| 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.[70] |
| 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.[71] |
| 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.[72] |
| 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.[73] |
| 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.[74] |
| 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.[75] |
| 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.[76] |
| 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.[77] |
| 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.[78] |
| 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.[79] |
| 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.[80] |
| 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.[81] |
| 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.[82] |
| 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).[83] |
| 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.[84] |
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