Health Act 1947 (Fixed Payment Notice and Dwelling Event Provisions) (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021
Jurisdiction | Ireland |
Citation | IR SI 158/2021 |
Year | 2021 |
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in | |||
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 6th April, 2021. | |||
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: | |||
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Act 1947 (Fixed Payment Notice and Dwelling Event Provisions) (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021. | |||
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 12th day of April 2021. | |||
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 substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph 10: | |||
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GIVEN under my Official Seal, | |||
2 April, 2021. | |||
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 amend the Health Act 1947 (Fixed Payment Notice and Dwelling Event Provisions) (Covid-19) Regulations 2020 ( S.I. No. 536 of 2020 ) to provide for an increase in the fine amount for travel to a port or airport for the purposes of leaving the State without reasonable excuse from €500 to €2,000 from 12 April 2021. |
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