The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (2021 Consolidation) (Amendment No. 13) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

N.I.

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2021 No. 343

Public Health

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (2021 Consolidation) (Amendment No. 13) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Made

15th December 2021

Coming into operation

at 11.00 a.m. on 16th December 2021

The Department of Health(1) makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25B and 25F of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967(2).

Citation, commencement and interpretationN.I.

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (2021 Consolidation) (Amendment No. 13) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021.

(2) These Regulations come into operation at 11.00 a.m. on 16th December 2021.

(3) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021(3).

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in operation at 16.12.2021 at 11.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Amendment of the principal RegulationsN.I.

2.  The principal Regulations are amended as mentioned in regulation 3.

Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2 in operation at 16.12.2021 at 11.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Amendment of Schedule 7 (Managed Isolation)N.I.

3.  In Schedule 7—

(a)in paragraph 17(1)(b), after “are to be read as references to a” omit “managed isolation”;

(b)in paragraph 18(a)—

(i)in head (x), for “; and” substitute ”,”;

(ii)after head (x) insert—

(xi)a person whom the Department considers requires exceptional arrangements to be made on compassionate grounds; and.

Commencement Information

I3Reg. 3 in operation at 16.12.2021 at 11.00 a.m., see reg. 1(2)

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 15th December 2021

(L.S.)

Dr Naresh Chada

A senior officer of the Department of Health

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (“the principal Regulations”).

These Regulations permit those red list passengers who were isolating in accordance with Schedule 7 immediately before 4.00 a.m. on 15th December 2021 to complete their period of self-isolation at a place other than the place specified in their managed isolation package.

No impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.

(1)

2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5).

(3)

S.R. 2021 No. 99 as amended by S.R. 2021 Nos. 108, 121, 132, 154, 189, 213, 214, 218, 225, 230, 241, 262, 278, 282>, 284, 293, 301, 312, 313, 316, 322, 323 and 340.