{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-temporary-arrangements-coronavirus-wales-regulations-2020/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-temporary-arrangements-coronavirus-wales-regulations-2020/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2020/1489",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Protective Equipment (Temporary Arrangements) (Coronavirus) (Wales) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-protective-equipment-temporary-arrangements-coronavirus-wales-regulations-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Public Health, Wales\nMade 9 December 2020\nLaid before Senedd Cymru 10 December 2020\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(1)\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 45C, 45F(2) and 45P(2) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984.\nThe Welsh Ministers consider that the restrictions and requirements imposed by these Regulations are proportionate to what they seek to achieve, which is a public health response to the threat to public health posed by the incidence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Wales.\nThe Welsh Ministers declare, in accordance with section 45Q(3), that they are of the opinion that these Regulations do not contain any provision made by virtue of section 45C(3)(c) of that Act which imposes or enables the imposition of a special restriction or requirement, or any other restriction or requirement which has or would have a significant effect on a person’s rights.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 22 Section 45C was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14). The function under this section is conferred on “the appropriate Minister”. Under section 45T(6) of the 1984 Act the appropriate Minister, in respect of Wales, is the Welsh Ministers."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1489/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:53.490202+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."
}