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

Made: 6th December 2021

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2)

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Citation, commencement and interpretation

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Amendment of the principal Regulations

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Amendment of regulation 3

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Amendment of regulation 4

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Amendment of regulation 6

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Amendment of regulation 19

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Amendment of Schedule 5

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Amendment of the Operator Liability Regulations

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Amendment of regulation 3

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Amendment of Schedule

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 6th December 2021

Dr Lourda Geoghegan — 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”) 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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5)

[^f00002]: 1967 c. 36 (N.I.)

[^f00003]: S.R. 2021 No. 99 as amended by S.R. Nos. 108, 121, 132, 154, 189, 213, 214, 218, 225, 230, 241, 262, 278, 282, 284 and 293, 312, 313, 316 and 322

[^f00004]: S.R. 2021 No. 102 as amended by S.R. 2021 Nos. 189, 213, 214, 225, 230, 262, 278, 282, 301 and 316

Editorial notes