The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Persons Travelling to Wales etc.) Regulations 2020

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Welsh Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 595 (W. 136)

Public Health, Wales

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Persons Travelling to Wales etc.) Regulations 2020

Made

at 5.38 p.m. on 15 June 2020

Laid before Senedd Cymru

16th June 2020

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 45B, 45F(2) and 45P(2) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 F1.

F11984 c. 22. Part 2A was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14).

PART 1E+WGeneral

Title and coming into forceE+W

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Persons Travelling to Wales etc.) Regulations 2020.

(2) Regulations 2 to 9 come into force on 17 June 2020.

(3) This regulation and regulations 10 and 11 come into force when these Regulations are made.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in force at made date at 5.38 p.m., see reg. 1(1)

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PART 2E+WRequirements to provide information to passengers

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PART 3E+WOffences, penalties and prosecutions

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PART 4E+WMiscellaneous

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Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020E+W

10.—(1) The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020 F5 are amended as follows.

(2) In the Welsh language text only—

(a)in regulation 2(1), for the definition of “gwybodaeth am deithiwr” (“passenger information”) substitute—

ystyr “gwybodaeth am deithiwr” (“passenger information”) yw'r wybodaeth a bennir yn Atodlen 1;;

(b)in regulation 5(3)(b), for “ddiweddaru ar ran P” substitute “ diweddaru ”;

(c)in regulation 7—

(i)in paragraph (1)(b)(ii) omit the comma after “sydd”;

(ii)in paragraph (4)(a) omit “bai”;

(iii)in paragraph (5)(a) after “yng Nghymru” insert “sy'n addas i breswylio ynddi”;

(d)in regulation 8—

(i)in paragraph (2)(a)(i) for “7(3));” substitute “ 7(3); a ”;

(ii)in paragraph (3)(b)(i) for “(bod y tu allan i fangre am gyhyd ag y bo'n angenrheidiol)” substitute “ (gadael y fangre dros dro) ”;

(e)in regulation 14(4), for “rreoliadau yma” substitute “ Rheoliadau hyn ”;

(f)in regulation 16(2) for “Reoliadau” substitute “ Rheoliadau ”;

(g)in regulation 17(10)—

(i)after “ “ddeddfwriaeth diogelu data” insert “ a “data personol” ”;

(ii)for “ac mae i “data personol” yr ystyr a roddir i” substitute “ a ”;

(h)in Schedule 1, in sub-paragraph (d), for “ei ddogfen” substitute “ dogfen ”;

(i)in Schedule 2—

(i)in paragraph 1, sub-paragraphs (1)(h) and (2)(a)(i) for “swydd” substitute “ swyddfa ”;

(ii)in paragraph 1(2)(a)(i) for “i'r person” substitute “ i P ”;

(iii)in paragraph 2(1)(a) for “y tu allan i'r” substitute “ yn y ”;

(iv)for paragraph 3(1)(b) substitute— “sydd wedi bod ar lestr a weithredir gan Wasanaeth Llyngesol ei Mawrhydi am gyfnod di-dor o 14 o ddiwrnodau o leiaf yn union cyn iddo gyrraedd ac nad yw'r llestr hwnnw wedi codi unrhyw bersonau nac wedi glanio mewn unrhyw borthladd môr y tu allan i'r ardal deithio gyffredin yn ystod y cyfnod hwnnw.”;

(v)in paragraph 7(2), in the opening words, for “y paragraff hwn” substitute “ is-baragraff (1) ”;

(vi)in paragraph 13(1)(b) insert “ hanfodol ” after “plismona” in both places where it occurs.

(3) In Schedule 2—

(a)for the heading to the Schedule substitute— “ Exempt persons ”;

(b)in the heading to Part 1 of the Schedule, for “3 or regulation 4” substitute “ 4, 5, 7 or 8 ”;

(c)in the heading to Part 2 of the Schedule, for “4” substitute “ 7 or 8 ”.

F5S.I. 2020/574 (W. 132)

Commencement Information

I10Reg. 10 in force at made date at 5.38 p.m., see reg. 1(1)

Expiry of these RegulationsE+W

11.—(1) These Regulations expire at the end of the 7th day of June 2021.

(2) The expiry of these Regulations does not affect the validity of anything done pursuant to these Regulations before they expire.

Commencement Information

I11Reg. 11 in force at made date at 5.38 p.m., see reg. 1(1)

Mark Drakeford

The First Minister, one of the Welsh Ministers

Regulation 4

SCHEDULEE+WOn-board statement

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made in response to the danger to public health which is posed by the incidence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Section 45B of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 enables the Welsh Ministers, by regulations, to make provision for the purpose of (amongst other things) preventing danger to public health from “vessels, aircraft, trains or other conveyances arriving at any place”.

The regulations place a requirement on operators of international passenger services coming from outside the common travel area to an airport, heliport or seaport in Wales (“operators”) to provide passengers with certain public health information relating to the virus.

Regulation 3 imposes requirements on operators at the point of both booking and check-in. Where booking or checking in is undertaken online the regulation requires the operator to make available to passengers a link to the relevant pages of the gov.uk website and the gov.wales website. Where booking or checking in is undertaken by telephone or in person operators are required to direct the passenger to these pages.

Regulation 4 requires operators to provide the public health information statement in the Schedule to passengers while on board.

Regulation 5 provides an exception to the requirement to provide the public health information in regulations 3 and 4; it does not apply where the recipient of the information is unlikely to be capable of understanding it.

Regulation 6 creates a summary only offence of contravening the requirements to provide the public health information in regulations 3 and 4. The offence is punishable by a fine.

Regulation 6(2) provides a defence of “reasonable excuse” for an operator charged with an offence under regulation 4 (contravening a requirement to provide information to passengers whilst on board).

Regulation 7 provides that fixed penalties may be imposed on persons who are suspected of committing an offence under these Regulations as an alternative to prosecution. The penalty is £4000.

The necessity and proportionality of these Regulations must be reviewed every 21 days (regulation 9).

The Welsh Ministers' Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, a regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared as to the likely cost and benefit of complying with these Regulations.