2021 No. 323

Public Health

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) (Amendment No. 11) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (revoked)F1

Made

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2)

F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annotations:

Citation, commencement and interpretationF11

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of the principal RegulationsF12

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of regulation 3F13

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of regulation 4F14

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of regulation 6F15

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of regulation 19F16

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of Schedule 5F17

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of the Operator Liability RegulationsF18

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of regulation 3F19

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Amendment of ScheduleF110

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1EXPLANATORY 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”) and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Operator Liability and Information to Passengers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (“the Operator Liability Regulations”).

Regulation 4 amends the principal Regulations to the effect that the passenger location form must be completed 48 hours before arrival in Northern Ireland.

Regulation 5 amends the principal Regulations to require an eligible non-red list arrival in Northern Ireland to have, and produce, evidence of a negative test result and to apply that requirement to children over the age of 12.

Regulation 6 amends the principal Regulations to provide that enforcement of self-isolation can apply to children who fail to comply with the self-isolation rules irrespective of whether they have arrived from a red list or non-red list country.

Regulation 7 amends Schedule 5 so as to require, where person arriving in Northern Ireland requires valid notification of a negative result from a qualifying test for the detection of coronavirus, that the sample taken for the purposes of the test is taken no more than two (rather than three) days before the commercial transport service on which the person travels to Northern Ireland is due to, or (as the case may be) actually, departs.

Regulation 9 amends the definition of the principal Regulations for the purposes of the Operator Liability Regulations.

Regulation 10 amends the Schedule to the Operator liability Regulations update the information which operators must provide to passengers arriving in Northern Ireland.

These Regulations make further minor amendments to the principal Regulations.

No impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.