The Department of Health has made a Statutory Rule entitled "The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020", (S.R. 2020 No. 187) which came into operation at 5.45 pm on 25 August 2020.

This rule amends the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 to reduce the maximum number who can participate in an outdoor or indoor gathering not at a private dwelling from thirty people to fifteen people (subject to exemption). It also provides that the restriction on gatherings shall not apply to a funeral, but that those involved in a funeral shall comply with the Departmental guidance.

The rule also reduces the maximum number who can participate in an outdoor gathering at a private dwelling from thirty people to fifteen people and in an indoor gathering in a private dwelling from ten people in four households to six people in two households. It provides also that up to ten people may attend a wedding or civil partnership ceremony indoors at a private dwelling where one of the participants is terminally ill; and that the restrictions in relation to private dwellings do not apply to funerals or wakes but that those involved must comply with Departmental guidance.

The rule may be purchased from the Stationery office at www.tsoshop.co.uk or by contacting TSO Customer Services on 0333 202 5070, or viewed online at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr