Coronavirus Legislation

Legislation.gov.uk is where you will find all legislation relating to coronavirus. The principal relevant legislation is:

Primary legislation

Secondary legislation

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

You can also browse other legislation which has been identified as relating to coronavirus as follows:

Our coronavirus service

We are doing all we can to ensure that new emergency coronavirus legislation is published as soon as possible on legislation.gov.uk. We research and capture all changes to legislation, usually within two weeks of the legislation being published, and often within a few days. All changes, whether we have applied them or not, are searchable from the Changes to Legislation page. Most coronavirus-related legislation has the word ‘coronavirus’ in the title.

Changes to legislation

We have provided lists of legislation that has been changed by coronavirus-related legislation:

You can refine these results by legislation type and number, by searching Changes to Legislation with 'coronavirus' in the made by 'title' field and adding any relevant filters.

Understanding coronavirus legislation

Please read coronavirus legislation carefully. Some of the changes made are temporary, or may have limited application. We have tried to make these changes as clear as possible, but to fully understand the legislation you will also need to read the annotations to that legislation.

An annotation is a note that appears at the foot of a provision (or under the associated heading if relating to a higher-level division). Annotations give authority for an effect or provide extra information about the provision in general, or a specific part of that provision.

You might also find it useful to read the Explanatory Notes to the legislation as they have been specifically written to clearly explain what the legislation is aiming to do.

Other legal notices

Legislation.gov.uk is where you will find all coronavirus legislation. But sometimes authorities will use a different mechanism to make temporary changes to the law that are related to coronavirus, or to trigger the commencement or suspension of legal changes. This may be done through a direction, designation or notice. Notifications of this type, that have legal effect, are published in The Gazette