The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers and Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers and Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/97) is an emergency statute in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in England, which came into force at 5.00pm on 29 January 2021.[1]

The Regulations increase the amount an individual attending a house party involving fifteen people or more can be fined for a first offence from £200 to £800.[2] The Regulations also broaden (by amending the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Self-Isolation) (England) Regulations 2020) the personal details that health service personnel or local authority personnel may disclose about an individual, and extend the permitted uses of those details to include the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of offences under those Regulations.[3]

References
  1. "The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers and Self-Isolation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021". Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  2. Williams, Tom (29 January 2021). "Anyone attending lockdown house parties now faces £800 fine". Metro. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  3. SI 97 (2021), Reg 4(4)
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