The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 24) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2020 No. 289

Public Health

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 24) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made

27th November 2020

Coming into operation

4.00 a.m. on 28th November 2020

The Department of Health(1) makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 25B and 25F(2) of the Public Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967(2).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 24) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and shall come into operation at 4.00 a.m. on 28th November 2020.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020(3).

Amendment of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5.

(2) In relation to any person who arrived in Northern Ireland on or after 10th July 2020 and before the coming into operation of any amendment made by regulation 5 the principal Regulations apply as if that amendment had not been made.

Amendments to regulation 3

3.  In regulation 3 (requirement to provide information), omit paragraph (10).

Amendments to regulation 4

4.  In regulation 4 (requirement to self-isolate)—

(a) omit paragraph (1A);

(b) in paragraph (3)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), for “,(c) or (d)” substitute “or (c)”;

(ii) omit sub-paragraph (d);

(c) in paragraph (6)(c), for “(d)” substitute “(c)”;

(d) in paragraph (7) omit the words “Where P is a person described in paragraph (1),”;

(e) omit paragraph (7A);

(f) in paragraph (12), for “Subject to paragraph (13), if” substitute “If”;

(g) omit paragraph (13).

Amendments to Schedule 3

5.  In Schedule 3 (Exempt countries, territories and parts of countries or territories)—

(a) at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, insert “Aruba”, “Bhutan”, “Kiribati”, “Micronesia”, “Mongolia”, “Samoa”, “the Solomon Islands”, “Timor-Leste”, “Tonga”, and Vanuatu”; and

(b) omit “Estonia” and “Latvia”.

Revocations

6.  The following regulations are revoked—

(a) The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 19) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020(4);

(b) The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 20) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020(5).

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health on 27th November 2020

Lourda Geoghegan

A senior officer of the Department of Health

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulations 3 and 4 of the principal Regulations are amended to remove the provisions inserted by the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 19) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 and the Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Amendment No. 20) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020, both of these regulations are also revoked

Aruba, Bhutan, Kiribati, Micronesia, Mongolia, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, and Vanuatu are included within the list of countries and territories in Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations exempt from the requirement in regulation 4 of those Regulations to self-isolate for 14 days after arrival in Northern Ireland.

Estonia and Latvia are omitted from the list of countries and territories in Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations exempt from the requirement in regulation 4 of those Regulations to self-isolate for 14 days after arrival in Northern Ireland.

No impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations.

(1)

Formerly the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety; see 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1(5)

(2)

1967 c. 36 (N.I.). Part 1A was inserted by section 48 of, and Schedule 18 to, the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7)

(3)

S.R. 2020 No. 90 as amended by S.R. 2020 Nos. 138, 140, 154, 155, 163, 168, 179, 185, 189, 193, 194, 200, 203, 212, 216, 223, 228, 234, 241, 243, 244, 254, 275 and 278

(4)

S.R. 2020 No. 243

(5)

S.R. 2020 No. 244