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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-requirements-scotland-amendment-regulations-2021/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2021/299",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-requirements-scotland-amendment-regulations-2021",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations (which come into force on 3 September 2021) amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 5 (Requirement to wear face covering in certain indoor places) of the principal Regulations. Regulation 2(2) inserts “rehearsing for a performance” as an activity falling within the exemption in paragraph (1)(j).\nRegulation 2(3) inserts a new paragraph (1)(ja) into regulation 5. This creates an exemption from wearing a face covering indoors for those performing or rehearsing for a performance where the use of measures set out in paragraph (1)(j) would materially impede the performance or rehearsal and the wearing of a face covering would materially impede the performance or rehearsal. The exemption will apply as long as there is either a partition or a distance of at least one metre between the performer(s) and all other persons (except those who are performing or rehearsing with the performer(s) or assisting with the performance or rehearsal).",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/299/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:54:32.700081+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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