The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (2021 Consolidation) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Made: 21st May 2021

Coming into operation: at 4.00 a.m. on 24th May 2021

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Citation, commencement and interpretation

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Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

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Amendment to Schedule 2

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Amendments to Schedule 4

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Amendment to Schedule 8

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 21st May 2021

Nigel McMahon — A senior officer of the Department of Health

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

Schedule 2 (Green list countries – exempt countries, territories and parts of countries or territories) is amended to include Australia, Brunei, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Iceland, Israel and Jerusalem, New Zealand, Portugal, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Singapore and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Schedule 4 (Persons who are exempt) is amended to exclude seafarers and inspectors and surveyors of ships who work on cruise ships from the exemptions for such roles from the requirements imposed by Schedule 7 to those Regulations (Managed self-isolation for red list arrivals).

A typographical error in entry 5 in the table in Part 1 of Schedule 4 is amended.

Schedule 8 (Prohibition on arrival of aircraft and vessels) is amended to prohibit the arrival of vessels from Turkey.

No impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety; see 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5)

[^f00002]: 1967 c. 36 (N.I.). Part 1A was inserted by section 48 of, and Schedule 18 to, the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7)

[^f00003]: S.R. 2021 No. 99 as amended by S.R. 2021 No. 108 and S.R. 2021 No. 121

Editorial notes