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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-restrictions-greencore-regulations-2020/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-restrictions-greencore-regulations-2020/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/921",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Greencore) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-protection-coronavirus-restrictions-greencore-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Enforcement of requirement to self-isolate",
  "text": "(1) Where an authorised person has reasonable grounds to believe that a person (“P”) has left, or is outside of, the place where P is self-isolating in contravention of regulation 4, the authorised person may—\n(a) direct P to return to the place where P is self-isolating;\n(b) remove P to the place where P is self-isolating.\n(2) An authorised person exercising the power in paragraph (1)(b) may use reasonable force, if necessary, in the exercise of the power.\n(3) Where P is a child and has left, or is outside of, the place where they are self-isolating and accompanied by an individual who has responsibility for them—\n(a) an authorised person may direct that individual to take P to the place where P is self-isolating; and\n(b) that individual must, so far as reasonably practicable, ensure that P complies with any direction given by an authorised person to P.\n(4) Where P is a child, and an authorised person has reasonable grounds to believe that P is repeatedly failing to comply with regulation 4, the authorised person may direct any individual who has responsibility for P to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, that P so complies.\n(5) An authorised person may only exercise a power in paragraph (1), (3) or (4) if the authorised person considers that it is a necessary and proportionate means of ensuring compliance with regulation 4.\n(6) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) “authorised person” means—\n(i) a constable; or\n(ii) a person designated by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this regulation; and\n(b) an individual has responsibility for a child if the individual—\n(i) has custody or charge of the child for the time being; or\n(ii) has parental responsibility for the child, and for these purposes, “parental responsibility” has the meaning given in section 3 of the Children Act 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/921/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:26:19.246286+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."
}