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Control of disease act changed.

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Confusedasusual78 · 28/04/2020 22:17

The 1984 control of disease act has been changed on the 27 April (yesterday) obviously due to coronavirus.
Has anyone else read the ‘Laws’ that have been put in place, and aibu to be scared by this?
Can’t link i’m sorry, if anyone can that would be great.

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gamerchick · 28/04/2020 22:19

Can't find anything recently updated Just had a quick look though. Can you just give an outline

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Confusedasusual78 · 28/04/2020 22:38

He covers it more succinctly that I can!

Control of disease act changed.
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Whynotnowbaby · 28/04/2020 22:48

I can’t watch that video as I’m with grotty child trying to get him to sleep but I think I would prefer to see a succinctly written document rather than someone’s personal take on it for me to understand and have an opinion.

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Confusedasusual78 · 28/04/2020 22:52

He just basically reads through the statements/bullet points from the act.
It’s here but obviously lengthy!
Just seems very heavy handed with lots of enforced rules. Unless I’m reading this wrong, I’d love others opinions on it.

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Confusedasusual78 · 28/04/2020 22:53

Here

Control of disease act changed.
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LastTrainEast · 28/04/2020 22:55

Yabu to be scared of rules intended to save your life and by taking youtubers seriously.

The changes to the Control of Disease Act 1984 are in this pdf
www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/pdfs/uksi_20200350_en.pdf

I won't link to the youtuber

LastTrainEast · 28/04/2020 22:56

the original Control of Disease Act 1984 is here www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/22

JemNadies · 28/04/2020 22:57

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mynameiscalypso · 28/04/2020 22:58

Having had a quick glance through the link above, isn't it just what we've all been doing for the last month? Everything always sounds much more serious and draconian when it's written in proper legal language but I couldn't see anything that jumped out or that I didn't know (admittedly I only skim read as am feeding a baby).

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gamerchick · 28/04/2020 23:01

Ah man I'm saturated with demands of educate yourself, wake up and do some research while being poked at with YouTube links. YouTube isn't really facts.

I'll have a read of the other ones. Thankyou.

mynameiscalypso · 28/04/2020 23:02

Also I think the last amendment was on 25 March (as per the timeline at the top) rather than yesterday.

Whynotnowbaby · 28/04/2020 23:03

Thank you those who have linked to readable sources! As far as I can see, it outlines the restrictions everyone is already (supposed to be) following and gives the police power to enforce them if people refuse to comply. It doesn’t seem to be suggesting any new or different restrictions. What are you seeing that you find upsetting?

ThreeLeggedCat · 28/04/2020 23:04

This law has been in place since 1984. It has been updated to include coronavirus, that is all. I’ve watched half of that YouTube video. He hasn’t said who he is, what his background or qualifications are, whether he knows anything about public health and he doesn’t half use inflammatory language.

I’m going to have a nose on legislation.co.uk and see what it actually says but it won’t be as draconian as he’s making out.

slipperywhensparticus · 28/04/2020 23:05

Isnt this the emergency powers that are being continued every three weeks?

NoLongerAnEasyTarget · 28/04/2020 23:08

Yes op the changes in legislation do concern me.

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mynameiscalypso · 28/04/2020 23:11

Thank you for watching @JemNadies so the rest of us don't have to bother!

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AnyFucker · 28/04/2020 23:11

Scaremongering shit

LastTrainEast · 28/04/2020 23:16

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/22#commentary-key-5fe1e202e7ec46cbe1679755f539bebf

Still ploughing through this, but each of these starts with "A justice of the peace may make an order under subsection (2) in relation to a person (“P”) if the justice is satisfied that...."

45G Power to order health measures in relation to persons

45H Power to order health measures in relation to things

45I Power to order health measures in relation to premises

So these powers still require a court to agree so you are protected.

Personally I'd have added on permission to taser any dumbass who thought the rules didn't apply to them so you're lucky I'm not PM Grin

Bella2020 · 28/04/2020 23:16

What part(s) are you worried about in particular?

JudyCoolibar · 28/04/2020 23:28

This isn't new, it's been in force for over a month.

MrFaceyRomford · 29/04/2020 00:37

I am sorry, which part worries you? I've read the regs and see nothing objectionable in them. There is a pandemic at the moment killing people in the tens of thousands.

ItsGoingTibiaK · 29/04/2020 00:44

@Confusedasusual78

This is absolutely false news. If the guy actually understood how legislation works, he would see very clearly that the Act was last changed on 25 March. Even then, the text of the Act wasn’t changed - the Act was ‘modified’ by the Coronavirus Act 2020 in one particular section relating to local authorities and cremations.

You are sharing dangerous, fake news and I am reporting this thread for suggested deletion.

www.legislation.gov.uk/changes/affected/ukpga/1984/22?results-count=50&sort=affecting-year-number&order=descending