The Department of Health has made a Statutory Rule entitled "The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Amendment No. 6) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020", (S.R. 2020 No. 103) which came into operation at 11.00 pm on 11th June 2020.

The Rule amends the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020, to remove the restrictions on businesses offering goods for sale or for hire in a shop, to allow providers of holiday accommodation to provide accommodation services to elite athletes, to allow a place of worship or a community centre to open for the purpose of providing childcare, to provide that the list of reasonable excuses for leaving the place where a person is living includes the need to obtain goods for any business listed in Part 3 of Schedule 2; to move house and to undertake associated activities for that purpose; in the case of a person who lives alone, to visit or stay in another person’s dwelling; and in relation to an elite athlete, for the purpose of training.

The Rule also allows for a total number of ten persons to participate in an outdoor gathering.

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