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# ENFORCEMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES 

# 2020 No. 451 

The Taking Control of Goods and Certification of Enforcement Agents (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 

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Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(1) 

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 64, 77(4) and 90 of, and paragraphs 8(1) and (2), 13(3), 14(3), 15(3), 24(1) and 31(2) and (4) of Schedule 12 to, the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007( a ): 

## Citation, commencement and saving provision 

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Taking Control of Goods and Certification of Enforcement Agents (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 and come into force on the day following the day on which they are laid. 

(2) Nothing in these Regulations affects any enforcement action taken prior to the coming into force of these Regulations. 

## Amendments to the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013 

2. —(1) The Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013( b ) are amended as follows. 

(2) In regulation 2 (general interpretation)— 

(a) before the definition of “the Act” insert— 

““the 2020 Regulations” means the Taking Control of Goods and Certification of Enforcement Agents (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020;”; and 

(b) after the definition of “disabled person” insert— 

““emergency period” means, where the address contained in the notice of enforcement is in England, any time during which a restriction or requirement is in place under regulation 6(1) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020( c ) or, where the address contained in the notice of enforcement is in Wales, any time during which a restriction or requirement is in place under regulation 8(1) of the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020( d );” . 

(3) In regulation 9 (time limit for taking control of goods)— 

