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

Made: at 12.21 a.m. on 14 October 2020

Laid before Senedd Cymru: at 3.00 p.m. on 14 October 2020

Coming into force: 4 November 2020

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

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Signed

Vaughan Gething — Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers — 2020-10-14

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These Regulations amend the Information Regulations to—

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Regulation 2(3) amends the regulation 3 of the Information Regulations to specify the updated information to be provided before a booking is made and before check-in is completed.

Regulation 2(4) inserts a new regulation 3A into the Information Regulations requiring operators to provide the information 24 to 48 hours before an international passenger service is scheduled to depart.

Regulation 2(5), (6) and (7) makes consequential amendments, and regulation 2(8) substitutes the Schedule to the Information Regulations.

The Welsh Ministers Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessment 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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1984 c. 22. Part 2A was inserted by section 129 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c. 14). The function of making regulations under Part 2A is conferred on “the appropriate Minister”. Under section 45T(6) of the 1984 Act the appropriate Minister as respects Wales, is the Welsh Ministers.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2020/595 (W. 136), amended by S.I. 2020/714 (W. 160).

[^f00003]: S.I. 2020/574 (W. 132), amended by S.I. 2020/595 (W. 136), S.I. 2020/714 (W. 160), S.I. 2020/726 (W. 163), S.I. 2020/804 (W. 177), S.I. 2020/817 (W. 179), S.I. 2020/840 (W. 185), S.I. 2020/868 (W. 190), S.I. 2020/886 (W. 196), S.I. 2020/917 (W. 205), S.I. 2020/944 (W. 210), S.I. 2020/962 (W. 216), S.I. 2020/981 (W. 220), S.I. 2020/1015 (W. 226), S.I. 2020/1042 (W. 231), S.I. 2020/1080 (W. 243) and S.I. 2020/1098 (W. 249).

Editorial notes