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The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 16) Regulations 2020

Type Welsh-Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2020-10-23
State In force
Jurisdiction Wales
Department King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
Source legislation.gov.uk
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Made: at 2.43 p.m. on 23 October 2020

Laid before before Senedd Cymru: at 6.30 p.m. on 23 October 2020

Coming into force: at 4.00 a.m. on 25 October 2020

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PART 1 — General

Title, coming into force and interpretation

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PART 2 — Amendments to the list of exempt countries and territories in Schedule 3 to the International Travel Regulations

Additions to the list of exempt countries and territories

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Amendment to the list of exempt countries and territories

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Transitional provision in connection with regulations 2 and 3

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Removal of Liechtenstein from the list of exempt countries and territories

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Transitional provision in connection with regulation 5

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Signed

Vaughan Gething — Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers — 2020-10-23

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/574 (W. 132)) (the “International Travel Regulations”). The International Travel Regulations have been previously amended by:

The International Travel Regulations impose requirements on persons entering Wales after having been abroad. They include a requirement for persons arriving in Wales to isolate for a period determined in accordance with the Regulations. The requirements imposed by the International Travel Regulations are subject to exceptions, and certain categories of person are exempt from having to comply. Persons entering Wales after being in one or more of the countries and territories listed in Schedule 3 to the International Travel Regulations are not required to isolate. The countries and territories listed in Schedule 3 are referred to as “exempt countries and territories”, but some of the entries in Schedule 3 are subject to exceptions in respect of particular territories. So for example, in relation to Greece, which is an exempt country for the purposes of the International Travel Regulations, certain Greek islands are excluded from the exemption.

Part 2 of these Regulations amends the list of exempt countries and territories.

Regulations 2 and 3 of these Regulations amend the International Travel Regulations to add the Canary Islands, Denmark, Maldives, and the Greek island of Mykonos to the list of exempt countries and territories.

Regulation 5 of these Regulations amends the International Travel Regulations to remove Liechtenstein from the list of exempt countries and territories.

Regulations 4 and 6 of these Regulations make transitional provision relating to these countries’ and territories’ change of status. The transitional provision addresses a potential area of doubt in terms of the effect on the operation of the International Travel Regulations, of the amendments made by regulations 2, 3 and 5 of these Regulations.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments 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. 2020/574 (W. 132) as 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), S.I. 2020/1098 (W. 249) and S.I. 2020/1133 (W. 258).

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