The Act Section 1: Extension of provisions
5.Section 1(2) and (3) of the Act amend section 12 of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020. Section 12 of that Act provides for Part 1 of that Act to expire on 30 September 2020, unless the Scottish Ministers make regulations providing for its effect to continue until 31 March 2021. If such regulations are made, the Scottish Ministers may make further regulations allowing one further, final extension until 30 September 2021, at which point any remaining provisions in the Act will expire. As mentioned in paragraph 3 above, these powers to make regulations were exercised ultimately to provide for the expiry of that Act on 30 September 2021.
6.Subsection (2) changes the date set out in section 12(1) of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 (relating to the expiry of the provisions in Part 1 of that Act) from 30 September 2021 to the end of 31 March 2022. Subsection (3) removes sections 12(3) and (4) of that Act and inserts a new subsection (3) which confers on the Scottish Ministers a power to amend by regulations section 12(1) of that Act to further extend the date on which the provisions in Part 1 of that Act expire from the end of the newly inserted 31 March 2022 to the end of 30 September 2022.
7.Subsections (5) and (6) of section 1 of the Act amend section 9 of the Coronavirus (Scotland) (No.2) Act 2020. Section 9 of that Act provides for Part 1 of that Act to expire on 30 September 2020, unless the Scottish Ministers make regulations providing for its effect to continue until 31 March 2021 with one further, final extension until 30 September 2021 available thereafter, at which point any remaining provisions in the Act will expire. These powers to make regulations were also exercised, ultimately to provide for the expiry of that Act on 30 September 2021.
8.Subsection (5) changes the date set out in section 9(1) of the Coronavirus (Scotland) (No.2) Act 2020 (relating to the expiry of the provisions in Part 1 of that Act) from 30 September 2021 to the end of 31 March 2022.
9.Subsection (6) removes section 9(3) and (4) of that Act and inserts a new subsection (3) which confers on the Scottish Ministers a power to amend by regulations section 9(1) of that Act to further extend the date on which the provisions in Part 1 of that Act expire from the end of the newly inserted 31 March 2022 to the end of 30 September 2022.