The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel, Public Health Information and Pre-Departure Testing) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021

Amendment of the International Travel Regulations

2.—(1) The International Travel Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 5A(2) (requirement to possess notification of negative test result), after “A person” insert “described in paragraph (1)”.

(3) In regulation 7(1)(cc) (persons not required to comply with regulation 6)—

(a) for “paragraphs 39 to 42” substitute “paragraph 41”,

(b) for “those paragraphs” substitute “that paragraph”.

(4) In schedule A2 (acute risk countries, territories or parts thereof)—

(a) after “Colombia”, insert “Democratic Republic of the Congo”,

(b) after “Suriname”, insert “Tanzania”.

(5) In schedule 1 (passenger information), omit paragraphs 2(f), 3 and 5.

(6) For paragraph 4E of schedule 2 (persons not required to comply with regulation 3 or 6)(1), substitute—

“4E.— (1) A member of aircraft crew where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work or are otherwise required to travel to the United Kingdom for work purposes.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—

(a) “member of aircraft crew” means a person who—

(i) acts as a pilot, flight navigator, flight engineer or flight radiotelephony operator of the aircraft,

(ii) is carried on the flight deck and is appointed by the operator of the aircraft to give or to supervise the training, experience, practice and periodical tests required for the flight crew under article 114(2) of the Air Navigation Order 2016(2) or any provision of EU-OPS, or

(iii) is carried on the flight for the purpose of performing duties to be assigned by the operator or the pilot in command of the aircraft in the interests of the safety of passengers or of the aircraft,

(b) travel for work purposes includes, in particular—

(i) where the member of aircraft crew resides outside of the United Kingdom, travelling to the United Kingdom to work on an aircraft departing from the United Kingdom,

(ii) travelling to attend work-related training in the United Kingdom,

(iii) returning to the United Kingdom following work-related training outside of the United Kingdom,

(c) “EU-OPS” has the meaning given in paragraph 1 of schedule 1 of the Air Navigation Order 2016.”.

(1)

Paragraph 4E was inserted by S.S.I. 2020/209.

(2)

S.I. 2016/765.