The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021

Made: at 10.32 a.m. on 14th May 2021

Laid before Parliament: at 2.30 p.m. on 14th May 2021

Coming into force: at 4.00 a.m. on 17th May 2021

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PART 1 — Introductory

Citation, commencement, extent and application

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Interpretation and introduction of Schedules 1 to 4

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PART 2 — Additional requirements on persons arriving in England who are not eligible travellers

Requirement on passengers to provide information

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Requirement to possess notification of negative test result

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Requirements relating to tests

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Requirement to book and undertake tests

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Requirement to undertake workforce tests

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Test requirements: offshore installation workers

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Further requirements on arrivals from category 3 countries or territories

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Further requirements on arrivals from category 3 countries or territories

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PART 3 — Enforcement

Enforcement of requirement to self-isolate

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Power of entry

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PART 4 — Requirements on operators

Passenger information requirement

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Required information and manner

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Records and information

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Requirement to ensure passengers have completed a Passenger Locator Form

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Requirement to ensure passengers possess notification of negative test result

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Requirement to ensure that certain passengers arrive only at designated ports

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PART 5 — Offences, proceedings and information

Offences and penalties

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Fixed penalty notices

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Prosecutions

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Power to use and disclose information

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Self-incrimination

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PART 6 — Final provisions

Review of need for requirements

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Expiry of Regulations

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Revocations, transitional provision consequential amendments and savings

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SCHEDULE 1 — Category 1 countries and territories

• Australia

• Brunei

• Falkland Islands

• Faroe Islands

• Gibraltar

• Iceland

• Israel

• New Zealand

• Portugal, including the Azores and Madeira

• Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

• Singapore

• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

SCHEDULE 2 — Category 2 countries and territories

Any country or territory outside the common travel area not listed in Schedule 1 or Schedule 3.

SCHEDULE 3 — Category 3 countries and territories

• Angola

• Argentina

• Bangladesh

• Bolivia

• Botswana

• Brazil

• Burundi

• Cape Verde

• Chile

• Colombia

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Ecuador

• Eswatini

• Ethiopia

• French Guiana

• Guyana

• India

• Kenya

• Lesotho

• Malawi

• The Maldives

• Mozambique

• Namibia

• Nepal

• Oman

• Pakistan

• Panama

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Philippines

• Qatar

• Rwanda

• Seychelles

• Somalia

• South Africa

• Suriname

• Tanzania

• Turkey

• United Arab Emirates

• Uruguay

• Venezuela

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe

SCHEDULE 4 — Exemptions

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• (1) A person who is—

• (a) carrying out a critical function at a space site or spacecraft controller who is responsible for command and control of a launch vehicle or spacecraft for nominal operations, collision avoidance or anomalies; or

• (b) employed by, or contracted to provide services to, a person who operates or maintains space situational awareness capabilities,

where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work.

• (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

• (a) “space site” has the meaning given in paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 4 to the Space Industry Act 2018 ;

• (b) “space situational awareness capabilities” means the sensors, systems and analytical services needed to provide time-sensitive warnings of space weather events, orbital collisions, orbital fragmentations or the re-entry of man-made objects from orbit;

• (c) “spacecraft” has the meaning given in section 2(6) of the Space Industry Act 2018;

• (d) “spacecraft controller” means a person competent, authorised and responsible for maintaining safe and secure operation of spacecraft through monitoring the status of a spacecraft, issuing manoeuvre commands or controlling other aspects of the spacecraft that influence its behaviour including its motion in space.

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• (1) A specialist aerospace engineer, or a specialist aerospace worker, where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work.

• (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

• (a) “specialist aerospace engineer” means a person who is employed or otherwise engaged to provide engineering services for the purpose of ensuring the continued operation of aviation activities (including but not limited to the provision of maintenance and repair services for production lines, aviation components, grounded aircraft and new aircraft);

• (b) “specialist aerospace worker” means a person who is employed or otherwise engaged to provide services for the purpose of ensuring safety management and quality assurance as required by relevant standards, guidance and publications on aviation safety produced by the Civil Aviation Authority or the European Union Aviation Safety Agency .

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• (1) A person engaged in operational, maintenance or safety activities of a downstream oil facility that has a capacity in excess of 20,000 tonnes, where—

• (a) the downstream oil facility is engaged in a specified activity carried on in the United Kingdom in the course of a business, and contributes (directly or indirectly) to the supply of crude oil based fuels to consumers in the United Kingdom or persons carrying on business in the United Kingdom; and

• (b) the activities are required to ensure continued safe operation of the facility,

where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work.

• (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

• (a) a facility has a capacity in excess of 20,000 tonnes at any time if it was used in the previous calendar year for the purposes of downstream oil sector activities in relation to more than that number of tonnes of oil;

• (b) “specified activities” are—

• (i) storing oil,

• (ii) handling oil,

• (iii) the carriage of oil by sea or inland water,

• (iv) conveying oil by pipes,

• (v) refining or otherwise processing oil.

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• (1) A worker required to undertake or commence within the period during which they would, but for this paragraph or regulation 3B, have had to self-isolate in accordance with regulation 9—

• (a) activities on or in relation to an offshore installation;

• (b) activities on or in relation to upstream petroleum infrastructure;

• (c) critical safety work on an offshore installation or well being decommissioned or preserved pending demolition or reuse; or

• (d) activities for the provision of workers, goods, materials or equipment or other essential services required to support the safe operation of the activities referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c),

where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work.

• (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

• (a) “offshore installation” has the meaning given in section 44 of the Petroleum Act 1998 ;

• (b) “upstream petroleum infrastructure” has the meaning given in section 9H of the Petroleum Act 1998 ;

• (c) “well” has the meaning given in section 45A(10) of the Petroleum Act 1998 .

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A postal operator, as defined in section 27(3) of the Postal Services Act 2011 , where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work.

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A worker with specialist technical skills, where those specialist technical skills are required for essential or emergency works or services (including commissioning, maintenance, and repairs and safety checks) to ensure the continued production, supply, movement, manufacture, storage or preservation of goods, where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work or otherwise to commence or resume their work.

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A worker with specialist technical skills, where those specialist technical skills are required for essential or emergency works (including construction, commissioning, installation, maintenance, repairs and safety checks) or to fulfil contractual obligations or warranty specifications in, or in connection with, waste management facilities used for the management, sorting, treatment, recovery, or disposal of waste (including energy from waste), where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work.

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• (1) Any of the following—

• (a) a person (“P”) who—

• (i) before travelling to the United Kingdom has made arrangements with a provider in the United Kingdom to receive healthcare (or, where P is a child, on whose behalf such arrangements have been made),

• (ii) is in possession of written confirmation of the arrangements from the provider,

• (iii) has travelled to the United Kingdom to receive that healthcare, and

• (iv) is attending a place to receive that healthcare or is travelling directly between that place and the place where they are self-isolating;

• (b) a person who—

• (i) is accompanying P for the purpose of providing necessary care or support to P in the circumstances referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a)(iv), or

• (ii) is travelling, for the purpose of so accompanying P, directly between the place where they are self-isolating and either of the places referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a)(iv),

where that person has travelled to the United Kingdom for that purpose and is in possession of the confirmation referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a)(ii) or a copy of it;

• (c) an accompanying child who is accompanying P or, where P is a child, is accompanying a person referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b);

• (d) a live donor who is attending a place for the purpose referred to in the definition of “live donor” or is travelling directly between that place and the place where they are self-isolating.

• (2) For the purposes of this paragraph—

• (a) “accompanying child”, in relation to P, means a child who has arrived in England with P and for whom P has responsibility, or where P is a child, a child who has arrived in England with the person referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) and for whom that person has responsibility;

• (b) “healthcare” means all forms of healthcare provided for individuals, whether relating to mental or physical health, including healthcare in connection with giving birth;

• (c) “live donor” means a person who—

• (i) has travelled to the United Kingdom for the purpose of donation of material which consists of or includes their human cells pursuant to arrangements made with a provider in the United Kingdom before travelling to the United Kingdom, and which are to be used by the provider for the purpose of providing healthcare, and

• (ii) is in possession of written confirmation of the arrangements from the provider;

• (d) “provider” means a provider of healthcare;

• (e) references to a place where a person is self-isolating are to a place where they are required to self-isolate, or permitted to be at, by virtue of regulation 9.

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• (1) A person who has travelled to the United Kingdom for the purpose of transporting material which consists of, or includes, human cells or blood and which is to be used for the provision of healthcare by a provider.

• (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

• (a) “blood” includes blood components;

• (b) “healthcare” and “provider” have the meanings given in paragraph 33(2).

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