Welsh Statutory Instruments
2021 No. 500 (W. 149)
Public Health, Wales
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2021 (revoked)F1
Made
at 2.54 p.m. on 22nd April 2021
Laid before Senedd Cymru
at 4.45 p.m. on 22nd April 2021
Coming into force
at 4.00 a.m. on 23rd April 2021
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Textual Amendments
F1EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
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 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 those Regulations.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 6B of the International Travel Regulations to exempt a person arriving in Wales from a country or territory subject to additional measures, who has travelled to the United Kingdom for the purpose of transporting certain materials to be used for the provision of a health service by a provider of health services, from the requirement to arrange tests before their arrival.
Regulation 4 amends regulation 6K of the International Travel Regulations to apply the provisions on workforce testing to certain health or care workers arriving in Wales from a country or territory subject to additional measures to undertake employment.
Regulation 5 amends regulation 12E of the International Travel Regulations so as to allow entry into Wales for those two categories of person.
Regulation 6 amends Schedule 3A to the International Travel Regulations, which contains the list of countries and territories subject to additional measures in Wales. Regulation 6 adds India to the list.
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 costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.