Coronavirus Acts: twelfth report to Scottish Parliament (April 2022)

5 Extension and expiry of the Coronavirus Acts

5.1 Part 1 of both Scottish Acts are now due to expire at the end of 30 September 2022, having been extended by SSI from end of 31 March 2022 to end of 30 September 2022. Four provisions of the Scottish Acts were expired by SSI on 30 March 2022 as these provisions were considered to be no longer necessary. We continue to be committed to only retaining legislative provisions where they are necessary and proportionate.

5.2 The UK Act has a sunset provision (section 89). The majority of the provisions under the Act expired on 24 March 2022, two years after the day it was passed, subject to certain excepted provisions which are set out in the legislation and any provisions which have been extended using powers provided by the Act. An SSI was made and laid in Parliament on 3 February 2022 to amend the expiry date of the following provisions of the UK Act for Scotland to 24 September 2022:

• section 18(2) and Part 2 of schedule 13 (registration of deaths and still-births);
• section 36 (vaccination and immunisation: Scotland);
• section 37(2) and the following provisions of Part 2 of schedule 16 (temporary closure of educational institutions and childcare premises): paragraphs 6, 7 (except insofar as it would relate to a direction under paragraph 8 of schedule 16), 8(6) to (8), 10 and 11, and 12 and 13 (except insofar as they relate to a direction under paragraph 8 of schedule 16)
• section 38(2) and Part 2 of schedule 17 (temporary continuity directions etc: education, training and childcare);
• section 49 (and schedule 19 (health protection regulations: Scotland).

5.3 The other provisions in the UK Act that were due to expire on 24 March 2022^[3] expired on that date.