The first piece of “coronavirus” legislation was introduced at 2.30 pm on the 10th February 2020 without Parliamentary oversight or debate and is now revoked.
This was The Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 Statutory Instrument and it was subsequently amended on the 25th February 2020.
This piece of legislation required a statement of "serious and imminent threat” by the Chief Medical Officer to justify any measures to be taken.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/129/contents/made
Rather prophetically there was an unannounced and totally unpublicised release of a statement on the 30th January 2020 (the exact same day the WHO declared pandemic) by the 4 Chief Medical Officers of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland on this very subject.
It stated:
"the 4 UK Chief Medical Officers consider it prudent for our governments to escalate planning and preparation in case of a more widespread outbreak.
For that reason, we are advising an increase of the UK risk level from low to moderate. This does not mean we think the risk to individuals in the UK has changed at this stage, but that government should plan for all eventualities.”"
This statement was made 11 days before the piece of legislation it was required for was written and laid before Parliament and came into force the very same afternoon.
But why did the UK Government, namely Matt Hancock who was in charge of Health at the time, think a statement hat did NOT include the words serious, imminent nor threat be used as a serious and imminent threat statement?
How did the 4 CMOs know 11 days in advance of a Statutory Instrument being written that “medical advice” would be required?
Why was this “advice” basically hidden on a webpage on a different department’s section and not on the DHSC webpages and why was it not linked to the Serious and Imminent Threat Declaration?
As this was part of a FOI request answer then either the above is the only advice given by the CMOs or the DHSC have withheld more detailed advice.
IT's because our government are all apparently amazing 'seers'. They can 'see' that the world is coming to an end because of carbon dioxide too. Also the WHO declared a pandemic before the numbers meant there actually was one (and when I say numbers, I mean numbers of flu type symptoms). An the most glaring issue for me is how the bunch of numpties that lord it over us managed to produce the detailed legislation of the Corona Act with SIs attached etc. and organise all the bs and the tiers of lockdowns that the rules and guidance that went with it, furlough etc all in the space of a few weeks of the chaos they had previously been in during brexit. Normally it takes them 10 years to do one enquiry and about five years to work out what a law is, let alone how to draft it. It stinks and if anybody can't see that then they need stronger glasses. THere are similar issues to be explained in the USA too regarding their magically produced legislation.