This post includes a rolling update of new legislation and guidance on coronavirus COVID-19 during the week commencing 25th May 2021 *.

Sunday 25 April to Saturday 1 May

Legislation

Wales

• The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 8) Regulations 2021, SI 2021/502 (W.150). Various amendments to the “principal Regulations”, S.I. 2020/1609 (W. 335).

• The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 9) Regulations 2021, SI 2021/542 (W.154). The amendments provide that from 3 May 2021 the whole of Wales is fully at Alert Level 3 and the restrictions and requirements set out in Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations apply. The temporary (transitional) restrictions and requirements set out in Schedule 3A, which have applied to the whole of Wales since 27 March 2021, are revoked.

Guidance

• (COVID-19) Coronavirus restrictions: what you can and cannot do MHCLG, (26 April 2021).
• Coronavirus: A history of English lockdown laws, House of Commons Library, Research Briefing, (30 April 2021).§

Church in Wales

• Moving from Alert Level 4 to Alert Level 3: A Practical Advice Update. (26 April 2021).

Church of England‡

Last updated: Monday 19 April, 15:27

Law and Religion UK

• Law and religion round-up – 25 April. Wedding news (relaxation of lockdown), and summary of the report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services: Policing in the pandemic – The police response to the coronavirus pandemic during 2020, (April 2021).

Joint Committee on Human Rights

• Press Release: Joint Committee on Human Rights: Every Fixed Penalty Notice issued under coronavirus Regulations must be reviewed, Includes links to report. (27 April 2021).

RSCM

Last updated 27 April 2021.

• Representative Body of the Church in Wales: Coronavirus – COVID-19: Guidance on music and the playing of church organs: A Practical Advice Update. During move from alert level 4 to alert level 3, supra. (27 April 2021).
• COVID-19: Guidance for Safe Group Music-making in Church. 7 April, incorporating Westminster Government announcements on 26 March and 7
  April 2021.

CCCBR

• Wales Guidance: moving to Alert Level 3 from 3 May onwards. This guidance was developed from the England guidance and agreed with the Church in Wales;  as with the CCCBR guidance for England published last week, this  should be read in conjunction with the recently update guidance note about individual risks.

Post last updated,  4 May at 08:40.

* Information on COVID-19 on L&RUK

These updates are published at the start of each week; they are not reissued, but new items are added throughout the week as they become available, providing a “rolling update” of the latest developments during the current week. They are also added to COVID-19 Coronavirus: legislation and guidance which is  the main source of  information, and listed with the newest items last (unlike the CofE documents, infra); items in the weekly updates yet to be added are marked “§“.  The updates for the earlier weeks are here.

‡ Church of England documents

Church of England documents are listed under their full title and issue number, in the same order as they appear on the Church’s web site.

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