The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information to Travellers and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Made: 16 February 2022

Laid before Senedd Cymru: 17 February 2022

Coming into force: 18 February 2022

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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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Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Pre-Departure Testing and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

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Signed

Eluned Morgan — Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers — 2022-02-16

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations are made in response to the ongoing danger to public health which is posed by the incidence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Wales. Section 45B of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 enables the Welsh Ministers, by regulations, to make provision for the purpose of (amongst other things) preventing danger to public health from “vessels, aircraft, trains or other conveyances arriving at any place”.

The Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Persons Travelling to Wales etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/595 (W. 136)) (“the Public Health Information Regulations”) and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel, Pre-Departure Testing and Operator Liability) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/48 (W. 11)) (“the Operator Liability Regulations”).

The Public Health Information Regulations and the Operator Liability Regulations impose requirements on persons operating international passenger services arriving into Wales from outside the common travel area (“operators”).

In consequence of the revocation and replacement of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/574 (W. 132) by the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/126 (W. 41)), these Regulations make amendments to the Public Health Information Regulations and Operator Liability Regulations.

The Public Health Information Regulations are also amended to provide that operators need only provide specified information to passengers pre-departure and on-board an international passenger service. The Schedule is amended to update the information that must be provided to passengers.

In addition, the Operator Liability Regulations are amended to replace the current suite of obligations on operators with an obligation to maintain adequate processes and systems to ensure that passengers possess certain information or evidence. Operators are also required to retain such records and information as are required to show that they have maintained adequate systems and processes. Amendments are also made to ensure that a fixed penalty notice can be issued in respect of an ongoing breach of the new duty where a previous fixed penalty notice issued in respect of the breach has been paid.

There has been no regulatory impact assessment in relation to these Regulations due to the need to put them in place urgently to deal with a serious and imminent threat to public health.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1984 p. 22 (“Deddf 1984”). Mewnosodwyd Rhan 2A gan adran 129 o Ddeddf Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol 2008 (p. 14). Mae’r swyddogaeth o wneud rheoliadau o dan Ran 2A wedi ei rhoi i “the appropriate Minister” (“y Gweinidog priodol”). O dan adran 45T(6) o Ddeddf 1984 y Gweinidog priodol, o ran Cymru, yw Gweinidogion Cymru.

[^f00002]: O.S. 2020/595 (Cy. 136), fel y’i diwygiwyd gan O.S. 2020/714 (Cy. 160), O.S. 2020/1118 (Cy. 253), O.S. 2020/1521 (Cy. 325), O.S. 2021/72 (Cy. 18) , O.S. 2021/171 (Cy. 39), O.S. 2021/457 (Cy. 145), O.S. 2021/584 (Cy. 161), O.S. 2021/646 (Cy. 166), O.S. 2021/765 (Cy. 187), O.S. 2021/863 (Cy. 202), O.S. 2021/1109 (Cy. 265), O.S. 2021/1212 (Cy. 303), O.S. 2021/1342 (Cy. 346), O.S. 2021/1369 (Cy. 362), O.S. 2021/1433 (Cy. 371) ac O.S. 2022/16 (Cy. 8).

[^f00003]: O.S. 2021/48 (Cy. 11), fel y’i diwygiwyd gan O.S. 2021/72 (Cy. 18), O.S. 2021/171 (Cy. 39), O.S. 2021/305 (Cy. 78), O.S. 2021/584 (Cy. 161), O.S. 2021/646 (Cy. 166), O.S. 2021/826 (Cy. 193), O.S. 2021/915 (Cy. 208), O.S. 2021/926 (Cy. 211) ac O.S. 2021/1109 (Cy. 265).

[^f00004]: 1971 p. 77. Mae adran 1(3) yn darparu y cyfeirir at y Deyrnas Unedig, Ynysoedd y Sianel, Ynys Manaw a Gweriniaeth Iwerddon gyda’i gilydd yn y Ddeddf honno fel “the common travel area”.

[^f00005]: O.S. 2022/126 (Cy. 41).

Editorial notes

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