The Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) (Coronavirus) Order 2020

• Citation: S.I. 2020/776
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) (Coronavirus) Order 2020 and comes into force on 4th September 2020.

(2) In this Order “coronavirus” and “coronavirus disease” have the same meaning as in section 1(1) of the Coronavirus Act 2020 .

Section 2 Specification of functions

(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the functions exercisable by the Scottish Ministers under the provisions mentioned in paragraph (2) are specified for the purposes of section 93(1) of the Scotland Act 1998.

(2) The provisions are—

(a) the following sections of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 —

(i) section 1 (general duty of the Scottish Ministers),

(ii) section 1A (duty of the Scottish Ministers to promote health improvement),

(iii) section 37 (prevention of illness, care and after-care),

(iv) section 43 (control of spread of infectious disease), and

(b) section 1 of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (duty of Scottish Ministers to protect public health).

(3) Paragraph (1) has effect only where a function specified by that paragraph is exercised in connection with application software which falls within paragraph (4) and is developed by, or on behalf of, the Secretary of State, for use by the general public on mobile devices such as, but not limited to, smartphones and tablets.

(4) Application software falls within this paragraph if it has functions aimed at supporting a reduction in the transmission of coronavirus, which may include—

(a) enabling users to report that they appear to have developed symptoms of coronavirus disease,

(b) enabling users to request a test for coronavirus,

(c) notifying users that they may have been exposed to coronavirus, and

(d) providing advice to users who have reported symptoms of coronavirus disease, or who may have been exposed to users with coronavirus or symptoms of coronavirus disease, on what to do next.