Some links for being “prepared to reintroduce restrictions”.

Current advice from IOMG includes “Be prepared to reintroduce restrictions if required. Stay responsible”. How?

The Manx lock-downs so far have shared a focus on border controls, control of internal movement and gatherings, and closure of businesses. Regulations already made under the Public Health Act 1990 continue in effect, but for the moment Directions, made in the form of Government Circulars, do not restrict internal movement and gatherings (except in relation to persons required to self-isolate), or closure of businesses.

It is at least plausible that new restrictions would resemble closely Directions previously in effect to create the January lockdown (the previous, longer, lock-down was dealt with under the Emergency Powers Act, and are a less obvious model). The most relevant are:

• GC 2021/0017, restricting gatherings.
• GC 2021/0016, restricting opening of premises.
• GC 2021/0014, limiting leaving the home.

Although largely written to stand alone, these three do interact. So the rules against gatherings do not apply to employees or customers accessing premises permitted to be opened; and a person may leave their house to work at a premises permitted to be opened, or to be a customer at a premises permitted to be opened.

There have also been more specific restrictions around educational institutions and child care; but it is less clear what a default “reintroduction” would look like for those specific restrictions.